_THEN AGAIN ABRAHAM TOOK A WIFE, AND HER NAME WAS KETURAH._ Then again Abraham took a wife - Hebrew, 'added and took.' KETURAH, х_ QªTUWRAAH_ (H6989)] - incense. Hupfeld asserts that the first six verses are an interpolation by a later hand than that of Moses. But, as relating some interesting par... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHE BARE HIM ZIMRAN, AND JOKSHAN, AND MEDAN, AND MIDIAN, AND ISHBAK, AND SHUAH._ Zimran - [Septuagint, Zombran, has been supposed by some identical with Zambram, the metropolis of the Kinaidokolpitai whose settlement was on the borders of the Red Sea, west of Mecca; and by others to be the Zam... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOKSHAN BEGAT SHEBA, AND DEDAN. AND THE SONS OF DEDAN WERE ASSHURIM, AND LETUSHIM, AND LEUMMIM._ Jokshan begat Sheba. This grandson of Keturah settled in the great northern desert, and was an ancestor of the Sabean tribe which plundered Job's cattle (Job 1:15). The Sabe of Ptolemy lay east of... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE SONS OF MIDIAN; EPHAH, AND EPHER, AND HANOCH, AND ABIDAH, AND ELDAAH. ALL THESE WERE THE CHILDREN OF KETURAH._ The sons of Midian. Midian was the most noted among the descendants of Keturah. His settlements are known; and to the east of these-in fact, extending across the whole country, fr... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABRAHAM GAVE ALL THAT HE HAD UNTO ISAAC_ _ AND ABRAHAM GAVE ALL THAT HE HAD UNTO ISAAC._ Gave unto Isaac ... unto the sons of the concubines. While the chief part of the inheritance went to Isaac, the other sons, Ishmael included, migrating to the "East country" - i:e., Arabia, at first perhap... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THESE ARE THE DAYS OF THE YEARS OF ABRAHAM'S LIFE WHICH HE LIVED, AN HUNDRED THREESCORE AND FIFTEEN YEARS._ These are the days of ... Abraham. His death is here related, though he lived until Jacob and Esau were fifteen years. Just 100 years after coming to Canaan, "the Father of the faithful,... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN ABRAHAM GAVE UP THE GHOST, AND DIED IN A GOOD OLD AGE, AN OLD MAN, AND FULL OF YEARS; AND WAS GATHERED TO HIS PEOPLE._ Died in a good old age - in filfillment of the prediction (Genesis 15:15). AND WAS GATHERED TO HIS PEOPLE. This phrase (cf. Genesis 15:15; Judges 2:10) cannot mean simply bu... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HIS SONS ISAAC AND ISHMAEL BURIED HIM IN THE CAVE OF MACHPELAH, IN THE FIELD OF EPHRON THE SON OF ZOHAR THE HITTITE, WHICH IS BEFORE MAMRE;_ His sons ... buried him. Death often puts an end to strife; reconciles those who have been alienated; and brings rival relations, as in this instance, to... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE FIELD WHICH ABRAHAM PURCHASED OF THE SONS OF HETH: THERE WAS ABRAHAM BURIED, AND SARAH HIS WIFE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM, THAT GOD BLESSED HIS SON ISAAC; AND ISAAC DWELT BY THE WELL LAHAI-ROI._ After the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac. This is intended as a general statement of the prosperity which attended Isaac as his father's heir; and as it relates... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF ISHMAEL, ABRAHAM'S SON, WHOM HAGAR THE EGYPTIAN, SARAH'S HANDMAID, BARE UNTO ABRAHAM:_ These are the generations of Ishmael, х_ TOLªDOWT_ (H8435)] - (see the note at Genesis 2:4; Genesis 5:1). Before passing to the line of the promised seed, the historian gives a b... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THESE ARE THE NAMES OF THE SONS OF ISHMAEL, BY THEIR NAMES, ACCORDING TO THEIR GENERATIONS: THE FIRSTBORN OF ISHMAEL, NEBAJOTH; AND KEDAR, AND ADBEEL, AND MIBSAM,_ The first-born of Ishmael, Nebajoth. His descendants were called Nabathaeans, who rose to great eminence and wealth by their enter... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MISHMA, AND DUMAH, AND MASSA,_ Mishma - Septuagint, Masma. Ptolemy mentions the Maisaimaneis, whose settlement was on the northeast of Medina, as probably representing the descendants of this son of Ishmael. HADAR or 'Hadad' (1 Chronicles 1:30) - [Septuagint, Choddan]. DUMAH - the district... [ Continue Reading ]
_HADAR, AND TEMA, JETUR, NAPHISH, AND KEDEMAH:_ Tema, [Septuagint, Theman] - the ninth son of Ishmael, a town and district of the province of Nejd, in the northeast of Arabia, and in the great tribe of Beni Teman. JETUR - the name of a province as well as a man. It appears (1 Chronicles 5:19) tha... [ Continue Reading ]
_THESE ARE THE SONS OF ISHMAEL, AND THESE ARE THEIR NAMES, BY THEIR TOWNS, AND BY THEIR CASTLES; TWELVE PRINCES ACCORDING TO THEIR NATIONS._ By their towns, х_ BªCHATSREEYHEM_ (H2691); Septuagint, en tais skeenais autoon] - by their enclosures; Bedouin villages, such as are formed of tent-cloths sp... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THESE ARE THE YEARS OF THE LIFE OF ISHMAEL, AN HUNDRED AND THIRTY AND SEVEN YEARS: AND HE GAVE UP THE GHOST AND DIED; AND WAS GATHERED UNTO HIS PEOPLE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY DWELT FROM HAVILAH UNTO SHUR, THAT IS BEFORE EGYPT, AS THOU GOEST TOWARD ASSYRIA: AND HE DIED IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL HIS BRETHREN._ They dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward Assyria. Havilah [Septuagint, Euilat] was a country of great extent, the exact... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF ISAAC, ABRAHAM'S SON: ABRAHAM BEGAT ISAAC:_ These are the ggenerations - account of the leading events in his life. There is a brief recapitulation of Isaac's age and marriage, according to the usual method of the sacred historian when entering on the х_ TOLªDOWT _... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ISAAC WAS FORTY YEARS OLD WHEN HE TOOK REBEKAH TO WIFE, THE DAUGHTER OF BETHUEL THE SYRIAN OF PADAN-ARAM, THE SISTER TO LABAN THE SYRIAN._ Padan-aram, [from paadaan, a plain, a low region] - plain of aram (highlands), once simply _ PADAN_ (H6307) (Genesis 48:7), a district, and from х_ SADEH_... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ISAAC INTREATED THE LORD FOR HIS WIFE, BECAUSE SHE WAS BARREN: AND THE LORD WAS INTREATED OF HIM, AND REBEKAH HIS WIFE CONCEIVED._ Entreated the Lord for his wife. Though tried in a similar way to his father, he did not follow the same crooked policy; and if his faith in the divine promise was... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILDREN STRUGGLED TOGETHER WITHIN HER; AND SHE SAID, IF IT BE SO, WHY AM I THUS? AND SHE WENT TO INQUIRE OF THE LORD._ The children struggled ... within her, х_ WAYITROTSªTSUW_ (H7533), Hithpael, dashed one another; Septuagint, eskirtoon, leaped] - used of the fetus in the womb: cf. Luke... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO HER, TWO NATIONS ARE IN THY WOMB, AND TWO MANNER OF PEOPLE SHALL BE SEPARATED FROM THY BOWELS; AND THE ONE PEOPLE SHALL BE STRONGER THAN THE OTHER PEOPLE; AND THE ELDER SHALL SERVE THE YOUNGER._ AND THE LORD SAID UNTO HER. The answer, like the speech of the angel to Hagar (Ge... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN HER DAYS TO BE DELIVERED WERE FULFILLED, BEHOLD, THERE WERE TWINS IN HER WOMB._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE FIRST CAME OUT RED, ALL OVER LIKE AN HAIRY GARMENT; AND THEY CALLED HIS NAME ESAU._ And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment - х_ 'ADMOWNIY_ (H132), ruddy, red-haired; Septuagint, purrakees.] New-born infants are sometimes covered with a profusion of downy hair; and in th... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AFTER THAT CAME HIS BROTHER OUT, AND HIS HAND TOOK HOLD ON ESAU'S HEEL; AND HIS NAME WAS CALLED JACOB: AND ISAAC WAS THREESCORE YEARS OLD WHEN SHE BARE THEM._ His brother ... was called Jacob - i:e., heel-catcher, supplanter, tripper-up, as a wrestler does an antagonist (Genesis 27:36; Hosea 1... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE BOYS GREW: AND ESAU WAS A CUNNING HUNTER, A MAN OF THE FIELD; AND JACOB WAS A PLAIN MAN, DWELLING IN TENTS._ The boys grew - from the first opposite to each other in character, manners, and habits. A CUNNING HUNTER - i:e., skillful, well versant in all the arts and wiles by which the pre... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ISAAC LOVED ESAU, BECAUSE HE DID EAT OF HIS VENISON: BUT REBEKAH LOVED JACOB._ The parents were divided in their affection; and while the grounds, at least, of the father's partiality were weak, the distinction made between the children led, as such conduct always does, to unhappy consequences... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JACOB SOD POTTAGE: AND ESAU CAME FROM THE FIELD, AND HE WAS FAINT:_ Jacob sod pottage - a soup made of a decoction of lentiles or small beans, called 'Adas (cf. 2 Samuel 17:28), which is very common in Egypt and Syria, particularly among country people and natives when traveling (Robinson's 'B... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ESAU SAID TO JACOB, FEED ME, I PRAY THEE, WITH THAT SAME RED POTTAGE; FOR I AM FAINT: THEREFORE WAS HIS NAME CALLED EDOM._ Feed me ... for I am faint. This was a request, which, addressed to a brother, one should have thought would be at once and cheerfully answered. But Jacob had a purpose to... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JACOB SAID, SELL ME THIS DAY THY BIRTHRIGHT._ Jacob said, Sell me ... thy birth-right - i:e., the rights and privileges of the first-born, which were very important. The Chief of these were a double portion of the paternal inheritance (Deuteronomy 21:17), the rule and authority over the younge... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ESAU SAID, BEHOLD, I AM AT THE POINT TO DIE: AND WHAT PROFIT SHALL THIS BIRTHRIGHT DO TO ME?_ Esau said ... I am at the point to die - i:e., I am running daily risk of my life; and of what use will the birthright be to me.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JACOB SAID, SWEAR TO ME THIS DAY; AND HE SWARE UNTO HIM: AND HE SOLD HIS BIRTHRIGHT UNTO JACOB._ Jacob said, Swear to me this day. An oath is prostituted when it is exacted and given to confirm an improper and sinful contract; and a person is chargeable with additional guilt when, after enteri... [ Continue Reading ]