15Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
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Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.
And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah? …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-15)Moses had now passed the first forty years of his life in the court of Pharaoh, preparing himself for business; and now it was time for him to enter upon action, and, I. He boldly owns and espouses the cause of God’s people: When Moses was grown he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens , Exod. 2:11. The best exposition of these words we have from an inspired pen, Heb. 11:24-26, w…
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