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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Genesis 31:44

Now, therefore, come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. This proposal was largely an outgrowth of selfishness, but it served the purpose.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - Jacob’s Flight from Haran 19. תרפים _t__e__rāpı̂ym_, Teraphim. This word occurs fifteen times in the Old Testament. It appears three times in this chapter, and nowhere else in the Pentateuch. It is...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 31 JACOB'S SERVITUDE ENDED AND FLIGHT FROM LABAN _ 1. Laban's behavior and God's commandment (Genesis 31:1)_ 2. The dream vision to return to the land (Genesis 31:11) 3. Jacob's flight (Gen...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    GENESIS 31:22 TO GENESIS 32:2. AFTER MUTUAL RECRIMINATIONS, JACOB AND LABAN MAKE A COVENANT TO REFRAIN FROM AGGRESSION ON EACH OTHER'S TERRITORIES. The analysis is uncertain; Gunkel assigns Genesis 31...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    MAKE. Hebrew cut (Compare Genesis 15:10; Genesis 15:18). solemnize....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _a covenant_ Cf. Genesis 26:28. _a witness_ Heb. _-ed_. This word gives the keynote to the transaction, and introduces the play on the word Gilead in Genesis 31:47. But "a covenant" is not "a witness....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Pursuit of Laban, &c. 23. _his brethren_ i.e. the men of his kindred and clan, as in Genesis 31:25_; Genesis 31:32_. Jacob is similarly attended; cf. Genesis 31:37;...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    NOW THEREFORE COME, &C.— Finding it impossible to do Jacob any injury, Laban assumes the language of tenderness and affection; and, like a true worldly man, carefully provides against receiving any in...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART FORTY-TWO THE STORY OF JACOB: HIS RETURN TO CANAAN (Genesis 31:17 to Genesis 33:20) 1. _The Covenant in Gilead: The Biblical Account_ (Genesis 31:17-55)_._ 17 Then Jacob rose up, an

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _NOW THEREFORE COME THOU, LET US MAKE A COVENANT, I AND THOU; AND LET IT BE FOR A WITNESS BETWEEN ME AND THEE._ Come ... let us make a covenant. The way in which this covenant was ratified was by a h...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JACOB'S RETURN FROM HARAN 4-13. Jacob attributes his prosperity to God's favour. 14-16. Rachel and Leah point out that their father had no claim on them, since Jacob had won them by his services, an...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The tall stone and the heap were signs of the agreement that Jacob and Laban had made. If either of them passed that place (see verse 52), they would see the signs. The signs would remind them about t...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 31 GOD TELLS JACOB TO RETURN V1 Laban’s sons said, ‘Jacob has taken all that belonged to our father. He has gained all his wealth from our father...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29). THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS. Abraham begat Isaac — The _Tôldôth_ in its original form gave probably a complete genealogy of Isaac, tracing up his des...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ עַתָּ֗ה לְכָ֛ה נִכְרְתָ֥ה בְרִ֖ית אֲנִ֣י ו

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE COVENANT BETWEEN JACOB AND LABAN Genesis 31:43 In our time covenants are engrossed on parchment, so that there may be written documentary evidence accessible, to prove that certain transactions h...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In the midst of Jacob's success the second divine communication came to him, commanding him to return to the land of his fathers and giving him the promise, "I will be with thee." Thus, after at least...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    THE COVENANT BETWEEN JACOB AND LABAN Though Jacob accused Laban of intending to do him harm if God had not warned him, Laban claimed he would not hurt his own family. Perhaps to save embarrassment be...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Now therefore (i) come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. (i) His conscience reproved him for his misbehaviour toward Jacob, and therefore move...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And are not all seals of the covenant in ordinances, like these stones, witnesses for or against the use, or abuse, of them?...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    44._Let us make a covenant, I and thou_. Laban here acts as men conscious of guilt are wont to do, when they wish to guard themselves against revenge: and this kind of trepidation and anxiety is the j...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 29 THROUGH 35. I have no doubt that in the two wives, as I have said, we have the Gentiles and Israel: Rachel first loved on the earth, but not possessed; but...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    NOW THEREFORE, COME THOU, LET US MAKE A COVENANT, I AND THOU,.... Let us be good friends, and enter into an alliance for mutual safety, and make an agreement for each other's good. Laban perceiving th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. Ver. 44. _Now therefore come thou, &c._] "A fool is full of words," saith Solomon. Which...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _All is mine_ That is, came by me. _Let us make a covenant _ It was made and ratified with great solemnity, according to the usages of those times. 1st, A pillar was erected, a heap of stones raised t...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Iacob vpon displeasure departeth secretly. 19 Rachel stealeth her fathers images. 22 Laban pursueth after him, 26 and complaineth of the wrong. 34 Rachels policie to hide the images. 36 Iacobs...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    FOURTH SECTION _Jacob’s flight. Laban’s persecution. The covenant between the two on the mountain of Gilead. Departure._ GENESIS 31:4 TO GENESIS 32:2 , 4And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JACOB'S SECRET DEPARTURE The prosperity of Jacob could not but awaken the envy of Laban's sons. Jacob had gained all of this through his caring for their father's sheep: now the majority of the sheep...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    43-55 Laban could neither justify himself nor condemn Jacob, therefore desires to hear no more of that matter. He is not willing to own himself in fault, as he ought to have done. But he proposes a c...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Both to our own consciences of our mutual obligations, and to God against either of us who shall break it, that he may severely punish us for it....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    These Chapter s present to us the history of Jacob at least, the principal scenes in that history. The Spirit of God here sets before us the deepest instruction, first, as to God's purpose of infinite...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 31:44 come H3212 (H8798) make H3772 (H8799) covenant H1285 witness H5707 between you and me let us -...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “And now, come, let us make a covenant, I and you, and let it be for a witness between me and you.” This change of heart of Laban, who had originally intended to drag Jacob and his household back to P...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jacob's resolution to return. Laban's hot pursuit; their quarrel and final agreement. CHARACTERS: Laban, Jacob, Rachael, Leah. CONCLUSION: The safety of believers under trying circumstance...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 31:1. _He heard the words of Laban's sons._ Three causes are assigned for Jacob's abrupt removal: first, the bitter reproaches of Laban's sons: secondly, the consequent change in the countenan...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee_ LABAN’S COVENANT WITH JACOB I. IT WAS FORCED UPON HIM BY CIRCUMSTANCES. 1. His long journey in pursuit of Jacob...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 31:43 In spite of Jacob’s observations, Laban claims ownership of everything that Jacob has taken. Then, possibly to save face, Laban invites Jacob to make a COVENANT or treaty...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 31:19 Fearful that Laban will prevent him from leaving Paddan-aram, Jacob escapes when his father-in-law is away shearing sheep. When Laban discovers what has happened, he purs...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 31:47. And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha; but Jacob called it Galeed.] “It is remarkable that in giving these names Laban chooses the Chaldee, Jacob the Hebrew, for the same...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 31:22, GENESIS 31:23 AND IT WAS TOLD LABAN ON THE THIRD DAY—_i_._e_. the third after Jacob's departure, the distance between the two sheep-stations being a three days' journey (_vi...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and all that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory (Genesis 31:1). In other words, they...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    let us. Genesis 15:18 Genesis 21:22 Genesis 26:28 1 Samuel 20:14 a witness....

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Let us make a covenant — It was made and ratified with great solemnity, according to the usages of those times. A pillar was erected, and a heap of stones raised, to perpetuate the memory of the thing...

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