22And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
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Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. …
Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
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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