Judges 1:16
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16 The descendants of Hobab[a] the Kenite, Moses’s father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad. Then they went and settled with the Amalekites.[b](A)
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Numbers 10:29-32
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29 Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’s father-in-law, “We are setting out for the place of which the Lord said, ‘I will give it to you’; come with us, and we will treat you well, for the Lord has promised good to Israel.”(A) 30 But he said to him, “I will not go, but I will go back to my own land and to my kindred.” 31 He said, “Do not leave us, for you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us. 32 Moreover, if you go with us, whatever good the Lord does for us, the same we will do for you.”(B)
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Judges 4:11
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11 Now Heber the Kenite had separated from the other Kenites,[a] that is, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had encamped as far away as Elon-bezaanannim, which is near Kedesh.(A)
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- 4.11 Heb from the Kain
1 Samuel 15:6
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6 Saul said to the Kenites, “Go! Leave! Withdraw from among the Amalekites, or I will destroy you with them, for you showed kindness to all the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites withdrew from the Amalekites.(A)
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Deuteronomy 34:3
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3 the Negeb, and the Plain—that is, the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees—as far as Zoar.
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Numbers 21:1
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The Bronze Serpent
21 When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel and took some of them captive.(A)
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Judges 3:13
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13 In alliance with the Ammonites and the Amalekites, he went and defeated Israel, and they took possession of the city of palms.(A)
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Judges 4:17
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17 Now Sisera had fled away on foot to the tent of Jael wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between King Jabin of Hazor and the clan of Heber the Kenite.
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Jeremiah 35:2
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2 Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak with them, and bring them to the house of the Lord, into one of the chambers; then offer them wine to drink.(A)
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2 Chronicles 28:16
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Assyria Refuses to Help Judah
16 At that time King Ahaz sent to the king[a] of Assyria for help.(A)
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- 28.16 Gk Syr Vg: Heb kings
1 Chronicles 2:15
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15 Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;
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Joshua 12:14
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14 the king of Hormah | one |
the king of Arad | one |
Numbers 24:21-22
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21 Then he looked on the Kenite and uttered his oracle, saying,
“Enduring is your dwelling place,
and your nest is set in the rock,
22 yet Kain is destined for burning.
How long shall Asshur take you away captive?”
Exodus 18:27
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27 Then Moses let his father-in-law depart, and he went off to his own country.(A)
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Exodus 18:14-17
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14 When Moses’s father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?” 15 Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.(A) 16 When they have a dispute, they come to me, and I decide between one person and another, and I make known to them the statutes and instructions of God.” 17 Moses’s father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.
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Exodus 18:12
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12 And Jethro, Moses’s father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’s father-in-law in the presence of God.
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Exodus 18:7
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7 So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law; he bowed down and kissed him; each asked after the other’s welfare, and they went into the tent.(A)
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Exodus 18:1
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Jethro’s Advice
18 Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’s father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.(A)
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Exodus 4:18
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Moses Returns to Egypt
18 Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me go back to my own people in Egypt and see whether they are still living.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”
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Exodus 3:1
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Moses at the Burning Bush
3 Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness and came to Mount Horeb,[a] the mountain of God.(A)
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- 3.1 Gk: Heb reads to the mountain of God, to Horeb
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