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In verses 1 and 2, Yahweh reminded Moses to take revenge on the Midianites as instructed in Numbers 25:16–18, as his last act before his death. [1] [3] Accordingly, Moses instructed a thousand men of each of the Twelve Tribes of Israel – 12,000 in total, under Phinehas' leadership – to attack Midian. [2]
Jethro and Moses (watercolor circa 1900 by James Tissot) Jethro is called a priest of Midian and became father-in-law of Moses after he gave his daughter, Zipporah, in marriage to Moses. He is introduced in Exodus 2:18. Jethro is recorded as living in Midian, a territory stretching along the eastern edge of the Gulf of Aqaba, northwestern Arabia.
Five kings of Midian slain by Israel (illustration from the 1728 Figures de la Bible) Midian was the son of Abraham. [21] Abraham's great-grandson Joseph, after being thrown into a pit by his brothers, was sold to either Midianites or Ishmaelites. [22] Moses spent 40 years in voluntary exile in Midian after killing an Egyptian. [23]
Most of the key events in Moses' life which are narrated in the Bible are to be found dispersed through the different chapters of the Quran, with a story about meeting the Quranic figure Khidr which is not found in the Bible. [151] In the Moses' story narrated by the Quran, Jochebed is commanded by God to place Moses in a coffin [155] and cast ...
According to the Hebrew Bible, Midian (Hebrew: מִדְיָן Miḏyān) is the fourth son of Abraham and Keturah, [1] the woman Abraham married after Sarah's death. His brothers are Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Ishbak and Shuah. His sons are Ephah, Epher, Enoch, Abida, and Eldaah.
Angered, Moses kills him and flees into Midian to escape punishment. There, he marries Zipporah, daughter of Jethro, a Midianite priest. While tending Jethro's flock, Moses encounters God in a burning bush. Moses asks God for his name, to which God replies with three words, often translated as "I Am that I Am."
The story of Zipporah at the Inn occurs through Exodus 4:24–26, when Moses, his wife Zipporah and their son Gershom reach an inn on their way to Egypt. Moses and his family have been tasked to travel from Midian to announce the plagues to the Pharaoh, but are interrupted by the Lord: Leningrad Codex text: 24.
Critical examination of the biblical narrative of Moses meeting Jethro and the events that unfolded thereafter comprise the first support of the Kenite theory. Moses, son of Levitical parents [16] sojourns in the land of Midian, where he eventually marries the daughter of Jethro, described as a priest (perhaps the priest) of Midian.