Exodus 3:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

kept the flock. Forty years, Acts 7:30.

Jethro. Reuel, Exodus 2:18.

Midian. A. descendant of Abraham, by Keturah. Moses was called in this land (Arabia); Mahomet also arose there. backside. Would be the West side, very fertile. First mention of Desert of Sinai is in connection with feeding. flock!

God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.

Horeb. Never used in New Testament. There "the wisdom of Egypt "had to be unlearned and God made known, Isaiah 50:4.

Exodus 3:1

1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.