_AND JACOB LIFTED UP HIS EYES, AND LOOKED, AND, BEHOLD, ESAU CAME, AND WITH HIM FOUR HUNDRED MEN. AND HE DIVIDED THE CHILDREN UNTO LEAH, AND UNTO RACHEL, AND UNTO THE TWO HANDMAIDS._ Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked. Jacob having crossed the ford, and ranged his wives and children in order-the... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE PUT THE HANDMAIDS AND THEIR CHILDREN FOREMOST, AND LEAH AND HER CHILDREN AFTER, AND RACHEL AND JOSEPH HINDERMOST._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE PASSED OVER BEFORE THEM, AND BOWED HIMSELF TO THE GROUND SEVEN TIMES, UNTIL HE CAME NEAR TO HIS BROTHER._ He ... bowed himself ... seven times. The manner of doing this is by looking toward a superior and bowing with the upper part of the body brought parallel to the ground, then advancing... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ESAU RAN TO MEET HIM, AND EMBRACED HIM, AND FELL ON HIS NECK, AND KISSED HIM: AND THEY WEPT._ Esau ran ... fell on his neck, and kissed him. What a sudden and surprising change! Whether the sight of the princely present and the profound homage of Jacob had produced this effect, or it proceeded... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES, AND SAW THE WOMEN AND THE CHILDREN; AND SAID, WHO ARE THOSE WITH THEE? AND HE SAID, THE CHILDREN WHICH GOD HATH GRACIOUSLY GIVEN THY SERVANT._ Who are those with thee? It might have been enough to say, They are my children; but Jacob was a pious man, and he could not giv... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN THE HANDMAIDENS CAME NEAR, THEY AND THEIR CHILDREN, AND THEY BOWED THEMSELVES._ Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, ... All Jacob's children without reserve had left their litters or vehicles, and were on foot, as appearing before their superior. This was a token of profo... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, WHAT MEANEST THOU BY ALL THIS DROVE WHICH I MET? AND HE SAID, THESE ARE TO FIND GRACE IN THE SIGHT OF MY LORD._ What meanest thou by all this drove? - literally, Who, or what to thee are all these bands? The Hebrew х_ MIY_ (H4310)], who, is used here in the sense of what (cf. 1 Samuel... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ESAU SAID, I HAVE ENOUGH, MY BROTHER; KEEP THAT THOU HAST UNTO THYSELF._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JACOB SAID, NAY, I PRAY THEE, IF NOW I HAVE FOUND GRACE IN THY SIGHT, THEN RECEIVE MY PRESENT AT MY HAND: FOR THEREFORE I HAVE SEEN THY FACE, AS THOUGH I HAD SEEN THE FACE OF GOD, AND THOU WAST PLEASED WITH ME._ For therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God. This see... [ Continue Reading ]
_TAKE, I PRAY THEE, MY BLESSING THAT IS BROUGHT TO THEE; BECAUSE GOD HATH DEALT GRACIOUSLY WITH ME, AND BECAUSE I HAVE ENOUGH. AND HE URGED HIM, AND HE TOOK IT._ He urged him, and he took it. In the East the acceptance of a present by a superior is a proof of friendship, and by an enemy, of reconci... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, LET US TAKE OUR JOURNEY, AND LET US GO, AND I WILL GO BEFORE THEE._ Let us take our journey. Esau proposed to accompany Jacob and his family through the country, both as a mark of friendship and as an escort to guard them. But the proposal was prudently declined. Jacob did not need an... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID UNTO HIM, MY LORD KNOWETH THAT THE CHILDREN ARE TENDER, AND THE FLOCKS AND HERDS WITH YOUNG ARE WITH ME: AND IF MEN SHOULD OVERDRIVE THEM ONE DAY, ALL THE FLOCK WILL DIE._ The children are tender. From a comparison of Genesis 30:41 with Genesis 39:20-23, it appears that Reuben was abou... [ Continue Reading ]
_LET MY LORD, I PRAY THEE, PASS OVER BEFORE HIS SERVANT: AND I WILL LEAD ON SOFTLY, ACCORDING AS THE CATTLE THAT GOETH BEFORE ME AND THE CHILDREN BE ABLE TO ENDURE, UNTIL I COME UNTO MY LORD UNTO SEIR._ I will lead on - [Hebrew, _ Lª'ITIY_ (H328), gently, gradually, at a slow pace; _ LªREGEL_ (H727... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ESAU SAID, LET ME NOW LEAVE WITH THEE SOME OF THE FOLK THAT ARE WITH ME. AND HE SAID, WHAT NEEDETH IT? LET ME FIND GRACE IN THE SIGHT OF MY LORD._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO ESAU RETURNED THAT DAY ON HIS WAY UNTO SEIR._ So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir. For the last time Esau retires to make room for Jacob; he leaves to him the land of his inheritance, and disappears on his way to the wild mountains of Seir х_ SEE`IYRAAH _ (H8165), Seir = hairy - i:e.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JACOB JOURNEYED TO SUCCOTH, AND BUILT HIM AN HOUSE, AND MADE BOOTHS FOR HIS CATTLE: THEREFORE THE NAME OF THE PLACE IS CALLED SUCCOTH._ Jacob journeyed to Succoth - [Hebrew, _ CUKOT_ (H5521), booths, formed of green boughs and branches interwoven, as a shelter from the heat (Isaiah 4:6; John 4... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JACOB CAME TO SHALEM, A CITY OF SHECHEM, WHICH IS IN THE LAND OF CANAAN, WHEN HE CAME FROM PADAN-ARAM; AND PITCHED HIS TENT BEFORE THE CITY._ Shalem - i:e., peace; and the meaning may be that Jacob came into Canaan, arriving 'safe, prosperous, unharmed' (Gesenius), in fulfillment of the promis... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE BOUGHT A PARCEL OF A FIELD, WHERE HE HAD SPREAD HIS TENT, AT THE HAND OF THE CHILDREN OF HAMOR, SHECHEM'S FATHER, FOR AN HUNDRED PIECES OF MONEY._ He bought a parcel of a field, ... х_ CHELQAT_ (H2513) _ HASAADEH_ (H7704)] - a portion of the field; i:e., cultivable ground (cf. Genesis 37:7-... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE ERECTED THERE AN ALTAR, AND CALLED IT EL-ELOHE-ISRAEL._ Erected ... an altar. Abraham had, on his landing on the same spot in Canaan, erected an altar; and now Jacob, on his arrival from Padan-aram, imitates the example of his grandfather from special reasons of his own (cf. Genesis 27:21,... [ Continue Reading ]