_AFTER THESE THINGS THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ABRAM IN A VISION, SAYING, FEAR NOT, ABRAM: I AM THY SHIELD, AND THY EXCEEDING GREAT REWARD._ After these things - the conquest of the invading kings. The campaign was closed by a noble demonstration of disinterestedness and generosity on the part... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABRAM SAID, LORD GOD, WHAT WILT THOU GIVE ME, SEEING I GO CHILDLESS, AND THE STEWARD OF MY HOUSE IS THIS ELIEZER OF DAMASCUS?_ Lord God - not _ YAHWEH_ (H3068) _ 'ELOHIYM_ (H430), as formerly, but _ 'ADONAAY_ (H136) _ YAHWEH_ (H3068), my Lord Yahweh. The first word is a plural form, put for th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABRAM SAID, BEHOLD, TO ME THOU HAST GIVEN NO SEED: AND, LO, ONE BORN IN MY HOUSE IS MINE HEIR._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND, BEHOLD, THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO HIM, SAYING, THIS SHALL NOT BE THINE HEIR; BUT HE THAT SHALL COME FORTH OUT OF THINE OWN BOWELS SHALL BE THINE HEIR._ This shall not be thine heir. To the first part of his address no reply was given; but having renewed it in a spirit of more becoming su... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE BROUGHT HIM FORTH ABROAD, AND SAID, LOOK NOW TOWARD HEAVEN, AND TELL THE STARS, IF THOU BE ABLE TO NUMBER THEM: AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, SO SHALL THY SEED BE._ And he brought him forth abroad. It appears, from several instances, that things are related in Scripture as actually done which yet w... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE BELIEVED IN THE LORD; AND HE COUNTED IT TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS._ He believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness - Hebrew, trusted in _ YAHWEH_ (H3068), as a child leans on the arm of his nursing-father, who guides and takes care of it. Such is the import of the origin... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, I AM THE LORD THAT BROUGHT THEE OUT OF UR OF THE CHALDEES, TO GIVE THEE THIS LAND TO INHERIT IT._ I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur. The divine person who appeared repeatedly to the patriarch expressly called Himself _ YAHWEH_ (H3068) only on two occasions-namely, onc... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, LORD GOD, WHEREBY SHALL I KNOW THAT I SHALL INHERIT IT?_ Whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? This question did not imply that Abram was staggered at the magnitude of the difficulties which lay in the way of the promises being fulfilled; for, to a reflecting mind like his, se... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, TAKE ME AN HEIFER OF THREE YEARS OLD, AND A SHE GOAT OF THREE YEARS OLD, AND A RAM OF THREE YEARS OLD, AND A TURTLEDOVE, AND A YOUNG PIGEON._ And he said unto him, take me an heifer of three years old, ... The animals specified were considered clean, and permitted to be used... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE TOOK UNTO HIM ALL THESE, AND DIVIDED THEM IN THE MIDST, AND LAID EACH PIECE ONE AGAINST ANOTHER: BUT THE BIRDS DIVIDED HE NOT._ Divided them in the midst - i:e., into halves. AND LAID EACH PIECE ONE AGAINST ANOTHER - i:e., each half at a little interval opposite its corresponding half.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE FOWLS CAME DOWN UPON THE CARCASES, ABRAM DROVE THEM AWAY._ And when the fowls came down upon the carcass. The Septuagint interpolates a clause here [epi ta soomata, epi ta dichotomeemata autoon], upon the carcasses, upon their severed portions [kai sunekathisen autois Abram), and Abra... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN THE SUN WAS GOING DOWN, A DEEP SLEEP FELL UPON ABRAM; AND, LO, AN HORROR OF GREAT DARKNESS FELL UPON HIM._ A deep sleep, х_ TARDEEMAAH_ (H8639)] - a preternatural sleep, produced by God (see the note at Genesis 11:21). AN HORROR OF GREAT DARKNESS. [The Septuagint has fobos skoteinos mega... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO ABRAM, KNOW OF A SURETY THAT THY SEED SHALL BE A STRANGER IN A LAND THAT IS NOT THEIRS, AND SHALL SERVE THEM; AND THEY SHALL AFFLICT THEM FOUR HUNDRED YEARS;_ Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger, ... It will be seen by inspecting the Hebrew text that the words, 'the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALSO THAT NATION, WHOM THEY SHALL SERVE, WILL I JUDGE: AND AFTERWARD SHALL THEY COME OUT WITH GREAT SUBSTANCE._ And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge. The exodus of Israel from Egypt was to be marked by a series of severe national judgments upon that country; and these were... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THOU SHALT GO TO THY FATHERS IN PEACE; THOU SHALT BE BURIED IN A GOOD OLD AGE._ And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace. It has been said by many that 'going to one's fathers,' or 'being gathered to one's people' was a phrase synonymous with 'being buried.' But here the distinction is clearl... [ Continue Reading ]
_BUT IN THE FOURTH GENERATION THEY SHALL COME HITHER AGAIN: FOR THE INIQUITY OF THE AMORITES IS NOT YET FULL._ But in the fourth generation, [Hebrew, _ DOWR_ (H1755), or _ DOR_ (H1755)] - the revolution or circle of human years; an age or generation. [Like _ GENEA_ (G1074), among the Greeks, and so... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT, WHEN THE SUN WENT DOWN, AND IT WAS DARK, BEHOLD A SMOKING FURNACE, AND A BURNING LAMP THAT PASSED BETWEEN THOSE PIECES._ When the sun went down, and it was dark. This season was chosen for rendering more visible and distinct the impressive ceremony in the scene about to... [ Continue Reading ]
_IN THE SAME DAY THE LORD MADE A COVENANT WITH ABRAM, SAYING, UNTO THY SEED HAVE I GIVEN THIS LAND, FROM THE RIVER OF EGYPT UNTO THE GREAT RIVER, THE RIVER EUPHRATES:_ In the same day the Lord made a covenant - [Hebrew, _ KAARAT_ (H3772), cut; Greek, temnein spondas; Latin, icere foedus, to strike... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE KENITES, AND THE KENIZZITES, AND THE KADMONITES,_ The Kenites. Their territory lay in the south and west of Canaan (Numbers 24:21; Judges 1:16; Judges 4:11; Judges 4:17; Judges 5:24; 1 Samuel 30:29). They were mixed up with the Amalekites (1 Samuel 15:3), and hence, they forfeited their countr... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE HITTITES, AND THE PERIZZITES, AND THE REPHAIMS,_ The Hittites. The chief or general body of the Hittite tribe appear to have occupied the district extending from the Lake of Tiberius westward to the Mediterranean, while some branches of them were settled in the south (Genesis 23:1-20; Gene... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE AMORITES, AND THE CANAANITES, AND THE GIRGASHITES, AND THE JEBUSITES._ The Amorites. Taking the term, not as representing the whole people of Canaan, but as the name of a distinct tribe, they inhabited the mountains not only of central Palestine, but of the northeast (Numbers 21:1-35) and... [ Continue Reading ]