Exodus 18:3

God's Word

along with her two sons. The one son was named Gershom [Foreigner], because Moses said, “I was a foreigner living in another country.”

Cross References

1 Chronicles 23:15

Moses’ sons were Gershom and Eliezer.

Psalm 39:12

Listen to my prayer, O Lord. Open your ear to my cry for help. Do not be deaf to my tears, for I am a foreign resident with you, a stranger like all my ancestors.

Exodus 2:22

She gave birth to a son. Moses named him Gershom [Foreigner], because he said, “I was a foreigner living in another country.”

Exodus 4:20

So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and started out for Egypt. He also brought with him the staff God had told him to take.

Acts 7:29

After he said that, Moses quickly left Egypt and lived in Midian as a foreigner. In Midian he fathered two sons.

Hebrews 11:13

All these people died having faith. They didn’t receive the things that God had promised them, but they saw these things coming in the distant future and rejoiced. They acknowledged that they were living as strangers with no permanent home on earth.

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, since you are foreigners and temporary residents ⌞in the world⌟, I’m encouraging you to keep away from the desires of your corrupt nature. These desires constantly attack you.

Judges 18:30

The people of Dan set up the carved idol for themselves. Jonathan (son of Gershom and grandson of Moses) and his descendants were priests for Dan’s tribe until the people living in that land were taken captive.