From the royal palace in Egypt Moses rose up to defend and, possibly, deliver the people of Abraham now called the Hebrews. The Pharaoh that tried to kill Moses would have been his half-brother Thutmoses III who had reigned with Hatshepsut in his early years, before Hatshepsut squeezed Thutmoses III out of his position as pharaoh. Around 1483 Thutmoses III began a revolt against Hatshepsut and, at the same time, Moses killed the slave master. Thutmose III had public support and overthrew and killed Hatshepsut who was in her fifties in 1482.  And, Moses fled to Midian. Thutmose then reigned 1482-1450 BC. (Moses will return to the land of Egypt in 1447 BC)

Moses fled east into Midian when Pharaoh Thutmoses III tried to kill him. Moses lived among the Midianites who were a people who originated through the fourth son of Abraham and his second wife Keturah named Midian. The Midainites lived in the Sinai Peninsula on the east side and, also, on the other side of the Gulf of Aqaba in Arabia. At a well in Midian where Moses sat down to rest the seven daughters of a Midian priest (possibly a priest/king like Melchizedek) named Reuel (or, Jethro in 3:1 and 18:1) came to water their sheep. A group of shepherds attempted to drive the daughters away from the well, but Moses defended them from the shepherds and watered their sheep. Moses is seen acting as a deliver in Egypt before he fled and as a deliverer in Midian as soon as he arrives. Moses future will be as a deliverer for Abraham’s nation from Egypt.

Moses would spend the next forty years with the household of Reuel (Jethro) and he married the oldest daughter named Zipporah. For the next forty years Moses, who had been the crowned prince of Egypt, would labor as a shepherd in the wilderness of Midian.

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