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Acts 7:36 KJV
Acts · chapter 7 · verse 36
He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.Acts 7:36 · King James Version
Acts 7:36 in context
34I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.
35This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
36He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
37This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear.
38This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- wildernesserēmossolitary, lonely, desolate, uninhabited, used of places, a desert, wilderness, deserted…G2048 →
- broughtexagōto lead outG1806 →
- wondersterasa prodigy, portent, miracle performed by any oneG5059 →
- shewedpoieōto make, with the names of things made, to produce, construct, form, fashion, etc., to be…G4160 →
- signssēmeiona sign, mark, token, that by which a person or a thing is distinguished from others and…G4592 →
- EgyptaigyptosEgypt = " double straits" , a country occupying the northeast angle of Africa…G125 →
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Stephen here proceeds in his story of Moses; and let any one judge whether these are the words of one that was a blasphemer of Moses or no; nothing could be spoken more honourably of him. Here is, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 30-41