Jethro
In the Hebrew Bible, Jethro was Moses's father-in-law, a Kenite shepherd and priest of Midian, sometimes called Reuel (or Raguel).
Quotes
[edit]- (To his daughters, whom Moses had defended from the shepherds) So he said to his daughters, “And where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”
- Exodus 2:20 NKJV.
- And Jethro said, “Blessed be the Lord, who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians. Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods; for in the very thing in which they behaved proudly, He was above them.”
- Exodus 18:10-11 NKJV.
Quotes about
[edit]- And Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people—that the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt. [...] Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness, where he was encamped at the mountain of God. [...] And Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardship that had come upon them on the way, and how the Lord had delivered them.
- Exodus 18:1;5;8 NKJV.
