fled... Syria. Ref to Pentateuch (Genesis 28:5.Deuteronomy 26:5; Deuteronomy 26:5). App-92.
Syria. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 26:5).
Israel served, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 29:18).
kept sheep. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 30:31, the same Hebrew word, shamar). We may supply the connecting thought: "[yet in after days] Israel was brought out of Egypt... and preserved [in the wilderness]".