Jethro

Gender: Male

Years: -1531 - -1490

Dictionary Text: “The priest of Midian,” Moses’ father-in-law =Raguel. If he be identified with Jethro, then this may be regarded as his proper name, and Jether or Jethro as his official title.

Family Members

• Children:
  • Zipporah
  • Hobab
  • Eliasaph

Verses

• Exodus 4:18: And Moses went and returned to Jethro his father in law, and said unto him, Let me go, I pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.
• Numbers 10:20: And over the host of the tribe of the children of Gad was Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
• Exodus 18:5: And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:
• Numbers 10:29: And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses’ father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel.
• Numbers 7:47: And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
• Exodus 18:2: Then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after he had sent her back,
• Numbers 2:14: Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel.
• Exodus 2:18: And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?
• Exodus 18:12: And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father in law before God.
• Numbers 7:42: On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad, offered:
• Exodus 18:1: When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father in law, heard of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;
• Exodus 18:10: And Jethro said, Blessed be the LORD, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.
• Exodus 18:6: And he said unto Moses, I thy father in law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her two sons with her.
• Exodus 3:1: 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.
• Numbers 1:14: Of Gad; Eliasaph the son of Deuel.
• Exodus 18:9: And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.