Exodus 2:15
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15 When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses.
So Moses fled from Pharaoh. He settled in the land of Midian and sat down by a well.(A)
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Hebrews 11:27
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27 By faith he left Egypt, unafraid of the king’s anger, for he persevered as though[a] he saw him who is invisible.
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- 11.27 Or because
Acts 7:29
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29 When he heard this, Moses fled and became a resident alien in the land of Midian. There he became the father of two sons.
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Genesis 29:2
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2 As he looked, he saw a well in the field and three flocks of sheep lying there beside it, for out of that well the flocks were watered. The stone on the well’s mouth was large,
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Genesis 24:11
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11 He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water; it was toward evening, the time when women go out to draw water.(A)
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Matthew 10:23
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23 When they persecute you in this town, flee to the next, for truly I tell you, you will not have finished going through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
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Proverbs 22:3
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3 The clever see danger and hide,
but the simple go on and suffer for it.
1 Kings 19:13-14
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13 When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave. Then there came a voice to him that said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”(A) 14 He answered, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts, for the Israelites have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away.”(B)
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1 Kings 19:1-3
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Elijah Flees from Jezebel
19 Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.(A) 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life like the life of one of them by this time tomorrow.”(B) 3 Then he was afraid;[a] he got up and fled for his life and came to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah; he left his servant there.
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- 19.3 Gk: Heb he saw
John 4:6
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6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.
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Exodus 4:19
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19 The Lord said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all those who were seeking your life are dead.”(A)
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Genesis 25:4
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4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
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Genesis 25:2
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2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.(A)
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Jeremiah 26:21-23
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21 And when King Jehoiakim, with all his warriors and all the officials, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death, but when Uriah heard of it, he was afraid and fled and escaped to Egypt.(A) 22 Then King Jehoiakim sent[a] Elnathan son of Achbor and men with him to Egypt,(B) 23 and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who struck him down with the sword and threw his dead body into the burial place of the common people.
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- 26.22 Heb adds men to Egypt
Genesis 28:6-7
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Esau Marries Ishmael’s Daughter
6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there and that as he blessed him he charged him, “You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women,”(A) 7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
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