Deuteronomy 10:12-22
Fear the Lord
12 And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to observe the Lord’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?
14 To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it. 15 Yet the Lord set his affection on your ancestors and loved them, and he chose you, their descendants, above all the nations—as it is today. 16 Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer. 17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. 18 He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing. 19 And you are to love those who are foreigners, for you yourselves were foreigners in Egypt. 20 Fear the Lord your God and serve him. Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name. 21 He is the one you praise; he is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes.22 Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
Matthew 2:13-18
Jesus' Family Escapes to Egypt to Save Him
13 When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”
14 So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, 15 where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
16 When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious, and he gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. 17 Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled:
18 “A voice is heard in Ramah,
weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children
and refusing to be comforted,
because they are no more.”
The Bible gives us examples of refugees and how we are to treat people who are foreigners and are refugees...We are to love those who are foreigners, for God's people, at one time, were foreigners in Egypt....So let us fear the Lord our God and serve Him...Hold fast to Him and take our oaths in His Name...When God's people were refugees, He did not want them to be treated unkindly...And when Mary and Joseph escaped to Egypt, Jesus' family were refugees, in a sense...God did not want the family of His Son, to be mistreated...
God's people and Jacob's ancestors went to Egypt when they had a famine in their land thousands of years ago...Jacob's ancestors were refugees in Egypt...God reminds us of this in the fifth book of Moses...God told His people that He is the LORD our God and is the God of gods and LORD of all Lords...He is the Great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes...God defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and LOVES the foreigner residing among us...He gives them food and clothing...And we are to love those who are foreigners, for God's people were once foreigners and refugees in Egypt...We should fear the LORD our God and serve Him...Hold fast to the LORD and take your oaths in His name...God is the One we praise; He is our God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes...Our ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky...
God's people and children now cover a lot of the earth...And we still have issues with refugees today...At one time even God's Son was a refugee, two thousand years ago...He was taken by his father and mother to Egypt to avoid the fury of Herod...Herod had gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi had left without telling him where Baby Jesus was...God who sent His own Son to earth became a refugee when Herod wanted God's Son dead...