Exodus 2:22

God's Word

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

Cross References

Genesis 23:4

“I’m a stranger with no permanent home. Let me have some of your property for a tomb so that I can bury my dead wife.”

1 Chronicles 16:20

they wandered from nation to nation and from one kingdom to another.

1 Chronicles 29:15

To you we are all like our ancestors— foreigners without permanent homes. Our days are as fleeting as shadows on the ground. There’s no hope ⌞for them⌟.

Psalm 119:19

I am a foreigner in this world. Do not hide your commandments from me.

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 2:10

When the child was old enough, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. Pharaoh’s daughter named him Moses [Pulled Out] and said, “I pulled him out of the water.”

Exodus 22:21

“Never mistreat or oppress foreigners, because you were foreigners living in Egypt.

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.

Leviticus 25:23

“Land must never be sold permanently, because the land is mine. To me you are strangers without permanent homes.

Acts 7:29

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

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.

1 Samuel 1:20

Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel [God Hears], because she said, “I asked the Lord for him.”