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Jethro, Moses` father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses into the wilderness where he was encamped, at the Mountain of God.
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The Mount of God
Commentators explain that Horeb is called "the mount of God" because it was a place of divine revelation. It was where God had appeared to Moses in the burning bush and where He would soon give the Law. The name signifies a place consecrated by God's special presence and activity.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The wilderness - that is, according to the view which seems on the whole most probable, the plain near the northern summit of Horeb, the mou…
19th Century
Anglican
Where he encamped at the mount of God. — It is quite possible that “the mount of God” may be here used, in a broad sense,…
16th Century
Protestant
And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law. It was not so much love for Moses as the fame of the miracles which drew this old man,195 bow…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Jethro, Moses's father in law This is the third time he is so called in the chapter already, and many more times…
Jethro came to rejoice with Moses in the happiness of Israel, and to bring his wife and children to him. Moses must have his family with him, so th…
