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Exodus 18 — Sermon Preparation
Jethro visits Moses, advises him to delegate judicial authority to capable leaders, and organizes a system of judges for the people. Below is a research summary for Exodus 18, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 27
- verses
- 418 / 134
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 9
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Exodus 18 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| חָתַן | châthan | H2859 | 13 | give, away in marriage |
| מֹשֶׁה | Môsheh | H4872 | 20 | Mosheh |
| עַם | ʻam | H5971 | 15 | people, tribe |
| יִתְרוֹ | Yithrôw | H3503 | 7 | Jethro |
| דָּבָר | dâbâr | H1697 | 11 | word, matter |
| שַׂר | sar | H8269 | 8 | head |
| שָׁפַט | shâphaṭ | H8199 | 6 | judge, sentence |
How preachers through history handled this text
9 public-domain excerpts on Exodus 18, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Here is the great zeal and the toil of Moses as a magistrate. Having been employed to redeem Israel out of the house of bondage, he is a further type of Christ, that he is employed as a lawgiver and a judge among them. If the people were as quarrelsome one with another as they were with God, no doubt Moses had many causes brought before him. This business Moses was called to; it appears that he did it with great care and kindness. The meanest Israelite was welcome to bring his cause before him. Moses kept to his business from morning to night. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Exodus 18:13–35 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Egypt— Ex 18:1
- Midian— Ex 18:1
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