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Egypt: Often a Refuge to Strangers Genesis 12:10

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

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Egypt: Often a Refuge to Strangers Genesis 47:4

Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen.”

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Egypt: Often a Refuge to Strangers 1 Kings 11:17, 40

But Hadad, still just a young boy, had fled to Egypt, along with some Edomites who were servants of his father. / Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, where he remained until the death of Solomon.

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Egypt: Often a Refuge to Strangers 2 Kings 25:26

Then all the people small and great, together with the commanders of the army, arose and fled to Egypt for fear of the Chaldeans.

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Egypt: Often a Refuge to Strangers Matthew 2:12, 13

And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they withdrew to their country by another route. / When the Magi had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the Child and His mother and flee to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the Child to kill Him.”

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