21And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. …
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. …
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
And Moses took his wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-22)Moses here gains a settlement in Midian, just as his father Jacob had gained one in Syria, Gen. 29:2 And both these instances should encourage us to trust Providence, and to follow it. Events that seem inconsiderable, and purely accidental, after wards appear to have been designed by the wisdom of God for very good purposes, and of great consequence to his people. A casual transient occurrence has…
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