Moses
102 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
53 sections
- 120 Years Old at Death
- A Levite and Son of Amram
- A Type of the Messiah
- Along with Aaron
- Appoints Joshua As his Successor
- Benedictions of Last Benediction Upon the Twelve Tribes
- Benedictions of Upon the People
- Body of, Disputed Over
- Character of Called the Man of God
- Character of Complainings of
- Character of Faith of
- Character of God Spoke To, As a Man to his Friend
- Character of Impatience of
- Character of Magnanimity of, Toward Eldad and Medad
- Character of Magnified of God
- Character of Meekness of
- Character of Obedience of
- Character of Respected and Feared
- Character of Unaspiring
- Commissioned As Leader of the Israelites
- Composes a Song for the People of Israel on Their Deliverance from Pharaoh
- Crosses the Red Sea; Pharaoh and his Army are Destroyed
- Death and Burial of
- Discovered and Adopted by the Daughter of Pharaoh
- Face of, Transfigured
- God Reveals to Him his Purpose to Deliver the Israelites and Bring Them Into the Land of Canaan
- Has the Vision of the Burning Bush
- Hidden in a Small Basket
- His Controversy with his Wife on Account of Circumcision
- His Loyalty to his Race
- His Rod Miraculously Turned Into a Serpent, and his Hand Was Made Leprous, and Then Restored
- His Virility
- Institutes a System of Government
- Jealousy of Aaron and Miriam Toward
- Joined by his Family in the Wilderness
- Joins Himself to Jethro, Priest of Midian
- Learned in all the Wisdom of Egypt
- Meets Aaron in the Wilderness
- Mourning For, Thirty Days in the Plains of Moab
- Not Permitted to Enter Canaan, but Views the Land from Atop Mount Pisgah
- People Complain Against Moses and Aaron
- Present with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration
- Prophecies of
- Rebellion of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram Against
- Receives Comfort and Assurance from the Lord
- Rejected by Pharaoh; Hardships of the Israelites Increased
- Renews his Appeal to Pharaoh
- Reproves Aaron For: Irregularity in the offerings
- Reproves Aaron For: Making the Golden Calf
- Secures the Deliverance of the People and Leads Them out of Egypt
- Takes the Life of an Egyptian Taskmaster
- Unbelief of the People
- Under Divine Direction Brings Plagues Upon the Land of Egypt
120 Years Old at Death
- Deuteronomy 31:2 he said to them, “I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to come and go, and the LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’
A Levite and Son of Amram
- Exodus 2:1–4 Now a man of the house of Levi married a Levite woman, …
- Exodus 6:20 And Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.
- Acts 7:20 At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in the sight of God. For three months he was nurtured in his father’s house.
- Hebrews 11:23 By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were unafraid of the king’s edict.
A Type of the Messiah
- Deuteronomy 18:15–18 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him. …
- Acts 3:22 For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.
- Acts 7:37 This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
Along with Aaron
- Exodus 5:1 After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”
Appoints Joshua As his Successor
- Numbers 27:22–23 Moses did as the LORD had commanded him. He took Joshua, had him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole congregation, …
- Deuteronomy 31:7–8 Then Moses called for Joshua and said to him in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that the LORD swore to their fathers to give them, and you shall give it to …
- Deuteronomy 31:14 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, the time of your death is near. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the Tent of Meeting, so that I may commission him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the Tent of Meeting.
- Deuteronomy 31:23 Then the LORD commissioned Joshua son of Nun and said, “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land that I swore to give them, and I will be with you.”
- Deuteronomy 34:9 Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. So the Israelites obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Benedictions of Last Benediction Upon the Twelve Tribes
- Deuteronomy 33:1 This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.
Benedictions of Upon the People
- Leviticus 9:23 Moses and Aaron then entered the Tent of Meeting. When they came out, they blessed the people, and the glory of the LORD appeared to all the people.
- Numbers 10:35–36 Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, O LORD! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You.” …
- Deuteronomy 1:11 May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.
Body of, Disputed Over
- Jude 9 But even the archangel Michael, when he disputed with the devil over the body of Moses, did not presume to bring a slanderous charge against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
Character of Called the Man of God
- Deuteronomy 33:1 This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.
Character of Complainings of
- Exodus 5:22–23 So Moses returned to the LORD and asked, “Lord, why have You brought trouble upon this people? Is this why You sent me? …
- Numbers 11:10–15 Then Moses heard the people of family after family weeping at the entrances to their tents, and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, and Moses was also displeased. …
Character of Faith of
- Numbers 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 …
- Deuteronomy 9:1–3 Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens. …
- Hebrews 11:23–28 By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were unafraid of the king’s edict. …
Character of God Spoke To, As a Man to his Friend
- Exodus 33:11 Thus the LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young assistant Joshua son of Nun would not leave the tent.
Character of Impatience of
- Exodus 5:22–23 So Moses returned to the LORD and asked, “Lord, why have You brought trouble upon this people? Is this why You sent me? …
- Exodus 6:12 But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”
- Exodus 32:19 As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.
- Numbers 11:10–15 Then Moses heard the people of family after family weeping at the entrances to their tents, and the anger of the LORD was kindled greatly, and Moses was also displeased. …
- Numbers 16:15 Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, “Do not regard their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.”
- Numbers 20:10 Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly in front of the rock, and Moses said to them, “Listen now, you rebels, must we bring you water out of this rock?”
- Numbers 31:14 But Moses was angry with the officers of the army — the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds — who were returning from the battle.
Character of Magnanimity of, Toward Eldad and Medad
- Numbers 11:29 But Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”
Character of Magnified of God
- Exodus 19:9 The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you, and they will always put their trust in you.” And Moses relayed to the LORD what the people had said.
- Numbers 14:12–20 I will strike them with a plague and destroy them — and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.” …
- Deuteronomy 9:13–29 The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people. …
- Exodus 32:30 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
Character of Meekness of
- Exodus 14:13–14 But Moses told the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the LORD’s salvation, which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again. …
- Exodus 15:24–25 So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?” …
- Exodus 16:2–3 And there in the desert the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. …
- Exodus 16:7–8 and in the morning you will see the LORD’s glory, because He has heard your grumbling against Him. For who are we, that you should grumble against us?” …
- Numbers 12:3 Now Moses was a very humble man, more so than any man on the face of the earth.
- Numbers 16:4–11 When Moses heard this, he fell facedown. …
Character of Obedience of
- Exodus 7:6 So Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded them.
- Exodus 40:16 Moses did everything just as the LORD had commanded him.
- Exodus 40:19 Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering over the tent, just as the LORD had commanded him.
- Exodus 40:21 Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle, put up the veil for the screen, and shielded off the ark of the Testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him.
Character of Respected and Feared
- Exodus 33:8 Then, whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would stand at the entrances to their own tents and watch Moses until he entered the tent.
Character of Unaspiring
- Numbers 14:12–20 I will strike them with a plague and destroy them — and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.” …
- Deuteronomy 9:13–29 The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people. …
- Exodus 32:30 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. Now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
Commissioned As Leader of the Israelites
- Exodus 3:10–22 Therefore, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites out of Egypt.” …
- Exodus 6:13 Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge concerning both the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
Composes a Song for the People of Israel on Their Deliverance from Pharaoh
- Exodus 15:1 Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted. The horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.
Crosses the Red Sea; Pharaoh and his Army are Destroyed
- Exodus 14:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Death and Burial of
- Numbers 31:2 “Take vengeance on the Midianites for the Israelites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”
- Deuteronomy 32:50 And there on the mountain that you climb, you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.
- Deuteronomy 34:1–6 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land — from Gilead as far as Dan, …
Discovered and Adopted by the Daughter of Pharaoh
- Exodus 2:5–10 Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it. …
Face of, Transfigured
- Exodus 34:29–35 And when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was unaware that his face had become radiant from speaking with the LORD. …
- 2 Corinthians 3:13 We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at the end of what was fading away.
God Reveals to Him his Purpose to Deliver the Israelites and Bring Them Into the Land of Canaan
- Exodus 3:7–10 The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings. …
Has the Vision of the Burning Bush
- Exodus 3:2–6 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed. …
Hidden in a Small Basket
- Exodus 2:3 But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
His Controversy with his Wife on Account of Circumcision
- Exodus 4:20–26 So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and headed back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand. …
His Loyalty to his Race
- Hebrews 11:24–26 By faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. …
His Rod Miraculously Turned Into a Serpent, and his Hand Was Made Leprous, and Then Restored
- Exodus 4:1–9 Then Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to my voice? For they may say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you.’” …
- Exodus 4:28 And Moses told Aaron everything the LORD had sent him to say, and all the signs He had commanded him to perform.
His Virility
- Deuteronomy 31:2 he said to them, “I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to come and go, and the LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’
- Deuteronomy 34:7 Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.
Institutes a System of Government
- Exodus 18:13–26 The next day Moses took his seat to judge the people, and they stood around him from morning until evening. …
- Numbers 11:16–30 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them stand there with you. …
- Deuteronomy 1:9–18 At that time I said to you, “I cannot carry the burden for you alone. …
Jealousy of Aaron and Miriam Toward
- Numbers 12:1 Then Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had taken a Cushite wife.
Joined by his Family in the Wilderness
- Exodus 18:1–12 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. …
Joins Himself to Jethro, Priest of Midian
- Exodus 2:15–22 When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well. …
Learned in all the Wisdom of Egypt
- Acts 7:22 So Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.
Meets Aaron in the Wilderness
- Exodus 4:27–28 Meanwhile, the LORD had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him. …
Mourning For, Thirty Days in the Plains of Moab
- Deuteronomy 34:8 The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.
Not Permitted to Enter Canaan, but Views the Land from Atop Mount Pisgah
- Numbers 27:12–14 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range and see the land that I have given the Israelites. …
- Deuteronomy 1:37 The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.
- Deuteronomy 3:23–29 At that time I also pleaded with the LORD: …
- Deuteronomy 32:48–52 On that same day the LORD said to Moses, …
- Deuteronomy 34:1–8 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land — from Gilead as far as Dan, …
People Complain Against Moses and Aaron
- Exodus 5:20–21 When they left Pharaoh, they confronted Moses and Aaron, who stood waiting to meet them. …
- Exodus 15:24 So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”
- Exodus 16:2–3 And there in the desert the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron. …
- Exodus 17:2–3 So the people contended with Moses, “Give us water to drink.” “Why do you contend with me?” Moses replied. “Why do you test the LORD?” …
- Numbers 14:2–4 All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness! …
- Numbers 16:41 The next day the whole congregation of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You have killed the LORD’s people!”
- Numbers 20:2–5 Now there was no water for the congregation, so they gathered against Moses and Aaron. …
- Numbers 21:4–6 Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey …
- Deuteronomy 1:12 But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?
- Deuteronomy 1:26–28 But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. …
Present with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration
- Matthew 17:3–4 Suddenly Moses and Elijah appeared before them, talking with Jesus. …
- Mark 9:4 And Elijah and Moses appeared before them, talking with Jesus.
- Luke 9:30 Suddenly two men, Moses and Elijah, began talking with Jesus.
Prophecies of
- Exodus 3:10 Therefore, go! I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring My people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
- Exodus 4:5 “This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers — the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob — has appeared to you.”
- Exodus 4:11–12 And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD? …
- Exodus 6:13 Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge concerning both the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 7:2 You are to speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his land.
- Exodus 17:16 “Indeed,” he said, “a hand was lifted up toward the throne of the LORD. The LORD will war against Amalek from generation to generation.”
- Exodus 19:3–9 Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain, “This is what you are to tell the house of Jacob and explain to the sons of Israel: …
- Exodus 33:11 Thus the LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young assistant Joshua son of Nun would not leave the tent.
- Numbers 11:17 And I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.
- Numbers 12:7–8 But this is not so with My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My house. …
- Numbers 36:13 These are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
- Deuteronomy 1:3 In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.
- Deuteronomy 5:31 But you stand here with Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and statutes and ordinances you are to teach them to follow in the land that I am giving them to possess.”
- Deuteronomy 18:15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.
- Deuteronomy 18:18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. I will put My words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him.
- Deuteronomy 34:10 Since that time, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face—
- Deuteronomy 34:12 and no prophet who performed all the mighty acts of power and awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
- Hosea 12:13 But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
- Mark 7:9–10 He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition. …
- Acts 7:37–38 This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’ …
Rebellion of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram Against
- Numbers 16:1 Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath son of Levi, along with some Reubenites — Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth — conducted
Receives Comfort and Assurance from the Lord
- Exodus 6:1–8 But the LORD said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh, for because of My mighty hand he will let the people go; because of My strong hand he will drive them out of his land.” …
Rejected by Pharaoh; Hardships of the Israelites Increased
- Exodus 5:1 After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”
Renews his Appeal to Pharaoh
- Exodus 6:11 “Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go out of his land.”
Reproves Aaron For: Irregularity in the offerings
- Leviticus 10:16–20 Later, Moses searched carefully for the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it had been burned up. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons, and asked, …
Reproves Aaron For: Making the Golden Calf
- Exodus 32:22–23 “Do not be enraged, my lord,” Aaron replied. “You yourself know that the people are intent on evil. …
Secures the Deliverance of the People and Leads Them out of Egypt
- Exodus 13:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
Takes the Life of an Egyptian Taskmaster
- Exodus 2:11–22 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. …
- Acts 7:24–29 And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian who was oppressing him. …
Unbelief of the People
- Exodus 6:9 Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.
Under Divine Direction Brings Plagues Upon the Land of Egypt
- Exodus 7:1 The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
- Exodus 8:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
- Exodus 9:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
- Exodus 10:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials, that I may perform these miraculous signs of Mine among them,
- Exodus 11:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “I will bring upon Pharaoh and Egypt one more plague. After that, he will allow you to leave this place. And when he lets you go, he will drive you out completely.
- Exodus 12:1 Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.