Acts 7:6
God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
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Acts 7:6
God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
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Genesis 15:13
He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
Genesis 15:14
I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth;
Genesis 15:15
but you will go to your fathers in peace. You will be buried at a good old age.
Genesis 15:16
In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
Ezekiel 16:8
“ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my garment over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.
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Galatians 3:16
Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his offspring. He doesn’t say, “To descendants”, as of many, but as of one, “To your offspring”, which is Christ.
Galatians 3:17
Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.
Exodus 12:40
Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
Exodus 12:41
At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of Yahweh’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.
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Acts 7:2
He said, “Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
Acts 7:3
and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’
Acts 7:4
Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans and lived in Haran. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land where you are now living.
Acts 7:5
He gave him no inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his offspring after him, when he still had no child.
Acts 7:6
God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
Acts 7:7
‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out and serve me in this place.’
Acts 7:8
He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
Acts 7:9
“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him
Acts 7:10
and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
Acts 7:29
Moses fled at this saying, and became a stranger in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.
Genesis 12:1
Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.
Joshua 24:2
Joshua said to all the people, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods.
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Exodus 1:11
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.
Exodus 2:23
In the course of those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel sighed because of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
Exodus 2:11
In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
Exodus 5:4
The king of Egypt said to them, “Why do you, Moses and Aaron, take the people from their work? Get back to your burdens!”
Numbers 20:15
how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers.
Psalms 105:25
He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.
Acts 7:19
The same took advantage of our race and mistreated our fathers, and forced them to abandon their babies, so that they wouldn’t stay alive.
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Acts 7:30
“When forty years were fulfilled, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.
Acts 7:31
When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight. As he came close to see, the voice of the Lord came to him,
Acts 7:32
‘I am the God of your fathers: the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’ Moses trembled and dared not look.
Acts 7:33
The Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
Acts 7:34
I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their groaning. I have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you into Egypt.’
Acts 7:35
“This Moses whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
Acts 7:37
This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’
Acts 7:38
This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel that spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, who received living revelations to give to us,
Acts 7:39
to whom our fathers wouldn’t be obedient, but rejected him and turned back in their hearts to Egypt,
Acts 7:42
But God turned away and gave them up to serve the army of the sky, as it is written in the book of the prophets, ‘Did you offer to me slain animals and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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Hebrews 11:9
By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
Ephesians 2:19
So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God,
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Acts 12:1
Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly.
Acts 18:10
for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many people in this city.”
1 Peter 3:13
Now who will harm you if you become imitators of that which is good?
Acts 14:2
But the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.
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Acts 7:45
which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations whom God drove out before the face of our fathers to the days of David,
Acts 7:46
who found favor in the sight of God, and asked to find a habitation for the God of Jacob.
Acts 7:48
However, the Most High doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands, as the prophet says,
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Acts 7:59
They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
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Acts 7:60
He kneeled down and cried with a loud voice, “Lord, don’t hold this sin against them!” When he had said this, he fell asleep.
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Isaiah 55:8
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.
Luke 2:7
She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in bands of cloth and laid him in a feeding trough, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Acts 16:23
When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely.
Romans 11:33
Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
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