Acts 7:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

Acts 7:26 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 2:13-15
And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? …
1 Corinthians 6:6-8
But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. …
Genesis 13:8
And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
John 15:17-18
These things I command you, that ye love one another. …
Proverbs 18:19
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-29)

Stephen here goes on to relate, I. The wonderful increase of the people of Israel in Egypt; it was by a wonder of providence that in a little time they advanced from a family into a nation. 1. It was when the time of the promise drew nigh —the time when they were to be formed into a people. During the first two hundred and fifteen years after the promise made to Abraham, the children of the covena…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

23-27. In Ac 7:23, 30, 36, the life of Moses is represented as embracing three periods, of forty years each; the Jewish writers say the same; and though this is not expressly stated in the Old Testament, his age at death, one hundred twenty years (De 34:7), agrees with it. it came into his heart to visit his brethren--his heart yearning with love to them as God’s chosen people, and heaving with th…