Acts 7:39 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁹To whom our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt,

Acts 7:39 —

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Numbers 14:3-4
And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? …
Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
Nehemiah 9:16-17
But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, …
Acts 7:51-52
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. …
Ezekiel 20:6-14
In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands: …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 30-41)

Stephen here proceeds in his story of Moses; and let any one judge whether these are the words of one that was a blasphemer of Moses or no; nothing could be spoken more honourably of him. Here is, I. The vision which he saw of the glory of God at the bush (Acts 7:30): When forty years had expired (during all which time Moses was buried alive in Midian, and was now grown old, and one would think pa…

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

(vv. 39)

35-41. This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge, &c.--Here, again, “the stone which the builders refused is made the head of the corner” (Psa 118:22).