Exodus 18:6-8 6 He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons with her.” 7 Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him; they each asked about the other’s welfare, and then they went into the tent. 8 Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt for Israel’s sake, and all the hardship that had come on them along the way, and how the Lord had delivered them. I just realized for the first time that Moses had left his wife and kids behind when he went to confront Pharaoh and lead God’s people out of Egypt. That seems like a kind of big deal....
And he said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Put your sword on your side each of you, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.’” … “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Put your sword on your side each of you, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.’
Jer. 16:14 “However, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when men will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’ Jer. 16:15 but they will say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the north and out of all the countries where he had banished them.’ For I will restore them to the land I gave their forefathers. When the Hebrews were enslaved in Egypt, it wasn’t because of rebellion or faithlessness. The Bible actually doesn’t give a reason for it unless you read between the lines about Pharoah and then it seems like it was done for God’s glory (which will disturb the prosperity folks). But here God says there is going to be a whole other time of slavery and bondage just like the years in Egypt, and they are going to be so great, there is going to have to be a whole new...