Exodus 1:17

American Standard Version (1901)

But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.

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  • Acts 5:29 : 29 But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.
  • Prov 16:6 : 6 By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for; And by the fear of Jehovah men depart from evil.
  • Dan 3:16-18 : 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer thee in this matter. 17 If it be [so], our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace; and he will deliver us out of thy hand, O king. 18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
  • Dan 6:13 : 13 Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, who is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the interdict that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day.
  • Exod 1:21 : 21 And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them households.
  • Neh 5:15 : 15 But the former governors that were before me were chargeable unto the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
  • Ps 31:19 : 19 Oh how great is thy goodness, Which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee, Which thou hast wrought for them that take refuge in thee, Before the sons of men!
  • Eccl 8:12 : 12 Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his [days], yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before him:
  • Eccl 12:13 : 13 [This is] the end of the matter; all hath been heard: fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole [duty] of man.
  • Matt 10:28 : 28 And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
  • Luke 12:5 : 5 But I will warn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, who after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
  • Acts 4:18-20 : 18 And they called them, and charged them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it is right in the sight of God to hearken unto you rather than unto God, judge ye: 20 for we cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard.
  • Hos 5:11 : 11 Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after [man's] command.
  • Mic 6:16 : 16 For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I may make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: and ye shall bear the reproach of my people.
  • Prov 8:13 : 13 The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.
  • Prov 24:11-12 : 11 Deliver them that are carried away unto death, And those that are ready to be slain see that thou hold back. 12 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew not this; Doth not he that weigheth the hearts consider it? And he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? And shall not he render to every man according to his work?
  • Gen 20:11 : 11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
  • Gen 42:18 : 18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

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  • Exod 1:18-22
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    18And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive?

    19And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwife come unto them.

    20And God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

    21And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them households.

    22And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

  • Exod 1:15-16
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    15And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

    16and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birth-stool; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

  • Heb 11:23
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    23By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw he was a goodly child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.

  • Acts 7:18-19
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    18till there arose another king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

    19The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not live.

  • 1 Kgs 3:27
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    27Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.

  • Num 31:17-18
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    72%

    17Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

    18But all the women-children, that have not known man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

  • Exod 9:20
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    20He that feared the word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:

  • Exod 13:15
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    15and it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Jehovah slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man, and the first-born of beast: therefore I sacrifice to Jehovah all that openeth the womb, being males; but all the first-born of my sons I redeem.

  • Num 31:15
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    15And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

  • Exod 5:21
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    21and they said unto them, Jehovah look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savor to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.

  • Exod 2:2
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    2And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

  • Exod 2:6-9
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    6And she opened it, and saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

    7Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

    8And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maiden went and called the child's mother.

    9And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.

  • Num 33:4
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    4while the Egyptians were burying all their first-born, whom Jehovah had smitten among them: upon their gods also Jehovah executed judgments.

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    5And it was told the king of Egypt that the people were fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?

  • Gen 42:18
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    18And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

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    30Thus Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea-shore.

    31And Israel saw the great work which Jehovah did upon the Egyptians, and the people feared Jehovah: and they believed in Jehovah, and in his servant Moses.

  • Acts 7:21
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    21and when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

  • Exod 2:15
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    15Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.

  • Exod 1:12-13
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    69%

    12But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.

    13And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:

  • Exod 12:29
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    29And it came to pass at midnight, that Jehovah smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle.

  • Exod 1:8
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    8Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

  • Exod 5:15
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    15Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?

  • Exod 1:10
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    10come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.

  • Exod 13:17
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    17And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:

  • Exod 2:23
    69%

    23And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.