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Jethro

Also called Deuel, Raguel, and Reuel

Mentioned 1530–1489 BC traditional (Jones)

His excellence, or gain, a prince or priest of Midian, who succeeded his father Reuel. Moses spent forty years after his exile from the Egyptian court as keeper of Jethro’s flocks.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Children
Zipporah, Eliasaph, Hobab
Tagged in
16 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

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Places

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  1. location not graded: Egypt2
  2. location not graded: Midian2
  3. location not graded: Horeb1

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 1555–1464 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 2 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Mentions

16 tagged verses in 2 books. Select a book to read its verses.

  1. Exodus10
  2. Numbers6

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBJethro 11Deuel 5Raguel 0Reuel 10
KJVJethro 10Deuel 4Raguel 1Reuel 10
ASVJethro 10Deuel 4Raguel 0Reuel 11

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Every verse

All 16 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Exodus10 verses
  1. 2:18

    When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

  2. 3:1

    Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

  3. 4:18

    Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peace,” Jethro replied.

  4. 18:1

    Now Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about all that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

  5. 18:2

    After Moses had sent back his wife Zipporah, his father-in-law Jethro had received her,

  6. 18:5

    Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the desert, where he was encamped at the mountain of God.

  7. 18:6

    He sent word to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons.”

  8. 18:9

    And Jethro rejoiced over all the good things the LORD had done for Israel, whom He had rescued from the hand of the Egyptians.

  9. 18:10

    Jethro declared, “Blessed be the LORD, who has delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and of Pharaoh, and who has delivered the people from the hand of the Egyptians.

  10. 18:12

    Then Moses’ father-in-law Jethro brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law in the presence of God.

Numbers6 verses
  1. 1:14

    from Gad, Eliasaph son of Deuel;

  2. 2:14

    Next will be the tribe of Gad. The leader of the Gadites is Eliasaph son of Deuel,

  3. 7:42

    On the sixth day Eliasaph son of Deuel, the leader of the Gadites, drew near.

  4. 7:47

    and a peace offering of two oxen, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliasaph son of Deuel.

  5. 10:20

    and Eliasaph son of Deuel was over the division of the tribe of Gad.

  6. 10:29

    Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

His excellence, or gain, a prince or priest of Midian, who succeeded his father Reuel. Moses spent forty years after his exile from the Egyptian court as keeper of Jethro’s flocks. While the Israelites were encamped at Sinai, and soon after their victory over Amalek, Jethro came to meet Moses, bringing with him Zipporah and her two sons. They met at the “mount of God,” and “Moses told him all that the Lord had done unto Pharaoh” (Ex. 18:8). On the following day Jethro, observing the multiplicity of the duties devolving on Moses, advised him to appoint subordinate judges, rulers of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens, to decide smaller matters, leaving only the weightier matters to be referred to Moses, to be laid before the Lord. This advice Moses adopted (Ex. 18). He was also called Hobab (q.v.), which was probably his personal name, while Jethro was an official name.