Acts 7:26
And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
And the next day he showed himself to them, as they strove,.... To two men of the Hebrews, who were quarrelling and contending with one another: these are said by the Jews {w} to be Dathan and Abiram; who were disputing and litigating the point, and were very warm, and at high words. The occasion of their contention is {x} said to be this,
"the Hebrew man (that had been abused) went to his house to divorce his wife, who was defiled, but she fled and told the affair to Abiram her brother: and on the morrow, Moses returned a second time to the Hebrew camp, and found Dathan and Abiram contending about the divorce.''
Though some think this is prophetically said, because they afterwards contended and divided in the business of Korah {y} Moses came up to them, and let them know who he was; and this was the day after he had killed the Egyptian. So Stephen explains the "second day" in Exodus 2:13 and to this agrees what a Jewish writer {z} says, that in the morning, Moses returned a second time to the camp of the Hebrews:
and would have set them at one again; persuaded them to peace and concord, composed their difference, reconciled them, and made them good friends:
saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; as Abraham said to Lot, when there was a strife between their herdsmen, Genesis 13:8 and if these two were Dathan and Abiram, they were brethren in the strictest sense, Numbers 16:1
why do ye wrong one to another? by abusing each other, calling ill names, or striking one another; or by lifting up the hand to strike, as Jonathan the Targumist says Dathan did against Abiram.
{w} Shalshalet, ib.
{x} Targum Jon. Jarchi, & Baal Hattuim in Exod. ii. 13. Shemot Rabba, Shalshalet & Pirke Eliezer, ut supra.
{y} Shemot Rabba, ib. & Yade Mose & Mattanot Cehunah in ib.
{z} Shelsheleth, ib.