While Moses was still in Midian, the LORD said to him, "Go back to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you are dead."

Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Mesopotamia to find a wife. He also learned that when Isaac blessed him, he commanded him not to marry a Canaanite woman.

He found out that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Mesopotamia.

King Ahab told his wife Jezebel everything that Elijah had done and how he had put all the prophets of Baal to death.

Elijah was afraid and fled for his life; he took his servant and went to Beersheba in Judah. Leaving the servant there,

Sensible people will see trouble coming and avoid it, but an unthinking person will walk right into it and regret it later.

When King Jehoiakim and his soldiers and officials heard what Uriah had said, the king tried to have him killed. But Uriah heard about it; so he fled in terror and escaped to Egypt.

They brought him back to King Jehoiakim, who had him killed and his body thrown into the public burial ground.)

When they persecute you in one town, run away to another one. I assure you that you will not finish your work in all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

When Moses heard this, he fled from Egypt and went to live in the land of Midian. There he had two sons.

It was faith that made Moses leave Egypt without being afraid of the king's anger. As though he saw the invisible God, he refused to turn back.

She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were Keturah's descendants.

When he arrived, he made the camels kneel down at the well outside the city. It was late afternoon, the time when women came out to get water.

Suddenly he came upon a well out in the fields with three flocks of sheep lying around it. The flocks were watered from this well, which had a large stone over the opening.

Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired out by the trip, sat down by the well. It was about noon.