16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters ; and they came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock . 17 Then the shepherds came and drove them away , but Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock . 18 When they came to Reuel their father , he said , "Why have you come back so soon today ?" 19 So they said , "An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds , and what is more , he even drew the water for us and watered the flock ." 20 He said to his daughters , "Where is he then? Why is it that you have left the man behind ? Invite him to have something to eat ." 21 Moses was willing to dwell with the man , and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses . 22 Then she gave birth to a son , and he named e him Gershom , for he said , "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land ."
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 2:16-22
Commentary on Exodus 2:16-22
(Read Exodus 2:16-22)
Moses found shelter in Midian. He was ready to help Reuel's daughters to water their flocks, although bred in learning and at court. Moses loved to be doing justice, and to act in defence of such as he saw injured, which every man ought to do, as far as it is in his power. He loved to be doing good; wherever the providence of God casts us, we should desire and try to be useful; and when we cannot do the good we would, we must be ready to do the good we can. Moses commended himself to the prince of Midian; who married one of his daughters to Moses, by whom he had a son, called Gershom, "a stranger there," that he might keep in remembrance the land in which he had been a stranger.