The Bible In Paintings: GOD PREPARES MOSES

[Hebrews 11:6]

The Bible In Paintings 2
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE

E X O D U S
CHAPTER 2

One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”

The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?”

Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”

New International Version ©1984, Abrdgd, EMPHASES Added

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"Moses Slays the Egyptian"

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JAMES TISSOT
"Moses Slays an Egyptian"

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EDWARD JOHN POYNTER
"Moses Slaying the Egyptian"

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Source

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JULIUS SCHNORR VON CAROLSFELD
"Moses Kills an Egyptian"

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CASPAR LUIKEN
Source

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SANDRO BOTTICELLI
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PAWEL MERWART
"Moses Killing an Egyptian"

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"Moses Slays the Egyptian"

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Source

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"Moses Kills an Egyptian"

CHAPTER 2

When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock. Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.

When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

“And where is he?” he asked his daughters. “Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.”

Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become an alien in a foreign land.”

During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.

So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.

New International Version ©1984, Abrdgd, EMPHASES Added

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NICOLA VACCARO
"Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro"

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CARL RAHL
"Moses Protects Requel's Daughters"

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CHARLES LEBRUN
"Moses Defends the Daughters of Jethro"

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THÉOPHILE HAMEL
"Moses and the Daughters of Jethro"

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CIRO FERRI
"Moses and the Daughters of Jethro"

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NIKOLAAS VERKOLJE
"Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro"

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SIGISMONDO COCCAPANI
"Moses and the Daughters of Jethro"

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SEBASTIANO RICCI
"Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro"

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[Hebrews 11:6]

M O S E S
MOSES IN HIS ARK, 1
MOSES IN HIS ARK, 2
GOD PREPARES MOSES
MOSES MEETS GOD: BURNING BUSH, 1
MOSES MEETS GOD: BURNING BUSH, 2

LET MY PEOPLE GO!
LET MY PEOPLE GO! 9 PLAGUES, 1
LET MY PEOPLE GO! 9 PLAGUES, 2
THE LORD PASSES OVER
EXODUS! ISRAEL LEAVES EGYPT
PARTING THE RED SEA!
ISRAELITES REJOICING IN SONG!

[Red Badger]

Moses was a young man when he left Egypt, but and old man when he returned to free the Hebrews.................

[Hebrews 11:6]

40 and then 80, iirc.

[Red Badger]

He spent 40 years tending sheep, to prepare him for 40 years tending sheep......................

[Hebrews 11:6]

Well said.

For what is God preparing each of us?

[Red Badger]

I don’t know, but I hope it doesn’t involve sheep!..............

[Hebrews 11:6]

Sure glad the Good Shepherd didn’t say that.......................

[Red Badger]

I’m talking about real sheep! They smell...............

[etabeta]

#3 Poynter; #8 Luiken; #10 Merwart; #15 Rahl and all of Moses defending the daughters of Jethro. Excellent!

[Hebrews 11:6]

Good morning, Alba.

"Defending daughters" is a noble deed--Moses' second defense, after the Hebrew being attacked. Good tests of his character: helping others. The Good Shepherd is willing to lay down his life for his sheep.

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Our smelliness did not deter the GS (I am determined to equate this).

[Bob434]

They probably think the same about us pol

[Red Badger]

He washed us....................

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Yep!

[delchiante]

#5 looks computer generated (?)

[left that other site]

Good Morning, Dan! :-)

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Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become an alien in a foreign land.”

It is frequent for the Hebrew names to be significant Benjamin = son of right hand, Esau = red. What does Gershom mean? I worked with a Gershon once upon a time...

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I’m talking about real sheep! They smell...............

Like human sheep don't?

[Hebrews 11:6]

Undoubtedly.