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Verse Genesis 28:17. _HOW DREADFUL_ IS _THIS PLACE!_] The appearance
of the _ladder_, the _angels_, and the _Divine glory_ at the top of
the ladder, must have left deep, solemn, and even awful impress...
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- Jacob’s Journey to Haran
3. קהל _qâhāl_, “congregation.”
9. מחלת _māchălat_, Machalath, “sickness, or a harp.”
19. לוּז _lûz_, Luz, “almond.”
The blessing of his sons was the last passage in...
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CHAPTER 28 JACOB'S DEPARTURE TO PADAN-ARAM AND HIS VISION
_ 1. Isaac sends Jacob away and gives his blessing (Genesis 28:1)_
2. Esau's action (Genesis 28:6)
3. Jacob's vision and vow (Genesis 28:10...
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YAHWEH REVEALS HIMSELF TO JACOB AT BETHEL. This section is taken from
J and E. To E Genesis 28:11 f., Genesis 28:17 f., Genesis 28:20_ a_,...
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HOW DREADFUL IS THIS PLACE!
The idea is, How awe-inspiring! The wonderful vision had left. deep
and solemn impression on his mind.
THIS IS NONE OTHER BUT THE HOUSE OF GOD.
He declares that it is. p...
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THE HOUSE OF GOD. This "house" is the place where God meets the
unworthy in _grace._ It was so with David (1 Chronicles 22:1). It is
so for us. Our "place of worship" is where God manifests Himself to...
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This section taken from J and E follows upon Genesis 27:45. Observe
the mention of Haran in Genesis 28:10 (cf. Genesis 27:43), and the
mention of Beer-sheba as the dwelling-place of Isaac in...
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_How dreadful_ This adjective is rendered unsuitable by colloquial
usage. The sense would be better given by "awesome" or "terrible."
Jacob believes that he has been in the presence of Jehovah and of...
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DISCOURSE: 45
JACOB’S PILLAR AT BETH-EL
Genesis 28:16. And Jacob awaked out of his sleep; and he said, Surely
the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and
said, How dreadful is...
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4. _Jacob's Dream-Vision at Bethel_ (Genesis 28:10-17).
_The Dream Ladder and the Angels._ Jacob went out from Beersheba
(Genesis 26:25)and set out toward Haran. Note the following
differences of view...
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_AND HE WAS AFRAID, AND SAID, HOW DREADFUL IS THIS PLACE! THIS IS NONE
OTHER BUT THE HOUSE OF GOD, AND THIS IS THE GATE OF HEAVEN._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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JACOB DEPARTS FOR PADAN-ARAM. HIS DREAM AT BETHEL
1-4. Isaac bids Jacob seek one of the daughters of his uncle Laban in
marriage, and assures him that the blessings and promises bestowed on
Abraham s...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 28
JACOB SETS OUT ON HIS JOURNEY
V1 Then Isaac called Jacob and he blessed him. He *commanded him,
‘Do not marry a *Canaanite woman. V2 Go to the...
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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...
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HOW DREADFUL. — The manifestation of God must always inspire awe and
dread, but not fear: for where He reveals Himself, there is “the
gate of heaven” — the appointed entrance for prayer now, and for
a...
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וַ יִּירָא֙ וַ יֹּאמַ֔ר מַה ־נֹּורָ֖א
הַ
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JACOB'S VISION AT BETHEL
Genesis 28:10
This is the Ladder chapter, in which a wayward, weak man is seen
holding fellowship with the Eternal God, who loves us, notwithstanding
our unworthiness, and de...
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Here Jacob is seen exiled from his home, flying from Beersheba. In
this connection we have the account of the first of the direct divine
communications to him. Tired and weary, he reached Luz and duri...
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JACOB LEFT CANAAN
Isaac agreed with Rebekah in the matter of a wife for Jacob. He sent
him to Laban's house to find a wife. Isaac also gave Jacob the
blessing of Abraham from God. When Esau realized...
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And he was (f) afraid, and said, How dreadful [is] this place! this
[is] none other but the house of God, and this [is] the gate of
heaven.
(f) He was touched with a godly fear and reverence....
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Revelation 1:17; Matthew 17:6....
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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...
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_‘HALLOWED GROUND’_
“How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of
God, and this is the gate of heaven.’
Genesis 28:17
I. IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE FRESHNESS OF JACOB’S SENSE OF RECEN...
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17._And he was afraid, and said_. It seems surprising that Jacob
should fear, when God spoke so graciously to him; or that he should
call that place “dreadful,” where he had been filled with
incredibl...
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Jacob becomes now the picture of cast-out and wandering Israel, heir
of the promises, watched over, but an outcast. The wanderings of
Abraham were in the land of promise; those of Jacob, out of it: tw...
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AND HE WAS AFRAID,.... Not with a servile but filial fear; not with a
fear of the wrath and displeasure of God, but with a fear of his grace
and goodness; not with a fear of distrust of it, of which h...
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_And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful [is] this place! this [is]
none other but the house of God, and this [is] the gate of heaven._
Ver. 17. _How dreadful is this place!_] The place of God's pu...
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_He was afraid_ So far was he from being puffed up with this divine
vision. The more we see of God, the more cause we see for holy fear
and blushing before him. Those to whom God is pleased to manifes...
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1 Isaac blesseth Iacob, and sendeth him to Padan Aram.
6 Esau marrieth Mahalal the daughter of Ishmael.
10 The Vision of Iacobs ladder.
18 The stone of Bethel.
20 Iacobs vow.
1 AND Isaac called I...
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And he was afraid, filled with reverent awe, AND SAID, HOW DREADFUL IS
THIS PLACE! Cf Exodus 3:5. The associations of this place would ever
afterward fill his mind with that holy fear and reverence wh...
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JACOB'S VOW...
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C.
JACOB.-ISRAEL, THE WRESTLER WITH GOD, AND HIS WANDERINGS
FIRST SECTION
_Jacob’s journey to Mesopotamia, and the heavenly Ladder at Bethel_
GENESIS 28:10-22
10And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, a...
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JACOB SENT TO PADAN-ARAM
Though scripture tells us that Isaac loved Esau, he had not done as
Abraham had in making sure that Isaac's wife was of his own kindred.
Rebekah's words to him now evidently a...
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16-19 God manifested himself and his favour, to Jacob, when he was
asleep. The Spirit, like the wind, blows when and where it listeth,
and God's grace, like the dew, tarrieth not for the sons of men....
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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...
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Genesis 28:17 afraid H3372 (H8799) said H559 (H8799) awesome H3372
(H8737) place H4725 house H1004 God...
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JACOB MEETS GOD AT BETHEL (GENESIS 28:10)
Genesis 28:10
‘And Jacob went out from Beersheba and went towards Haran.'
At this stage Isaac and the family tribe are still firmly situated in
Beersheba....
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Genesis 28:10
Jacob makes his brother's hunger an occasion for bargaining with him
for his birthright. Esau says, "What profit shall this birthright do
to me?" Neither one nor the other knew what good...
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Genesis 28
I. If there be little poetic or romantic charm in the history of
Isaac, what a wealth of it there is in that of Jacob! A double deceit,
followed by banishment from his country; this expulsi...
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Genesis 28:17
I. It must have been the freshness of Jacob's sense of recent sin that
made a spot so peaceful and so blessed seem to him a "dreadful" place.
Everything takes its character from the con...
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CONTENTS: Jacob at Bethel and the Abrahamic covenant confirmed to him
in a dream.
CHARACTERS: Isaac, Jacob, Laban, Esau, Ishmael, Mahalath, angels.
CONCLUSION: The believer should realize that he is...
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Genesis 28:1. _Isaac called Jacob and blessed him._ A heart-rending
business to be forced away from his father's house in the 58th year of
his age. He went not with a train of ten camels, as were sent...
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_How dreadful is this place I this is none other but the house of God,
and this is the gate of heaven_
REVERENTIAL AWE
I. It must have been the freshness of Jacob’s sense of recent sin
that made a sp...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 28:10 The Lord uses an extraordinary dream
to confirm that the divine promises to Abraham will be fulfilled
through Jacob. A similar event will take place upon Jacob’s return
t...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 28:16 Believing that THE LORD IS IN THIS
PLACE, Jacob describes it as the HOUSE OF GOD. The presence of God on
earth is clearly central in Jacob’s thinking.
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 28:11. And he lighted upon a certain place.] “The term means
_he fell upon the place,_ as the providential stopping-place
incidentally coming upon it, or coming up to it, as t...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 28:10
AND JACOB WENT OUT FROM BEERSHEBA,—in obedience to his father's
commandment to seek a wife (Genesis 28:2), but also in compliance with
his mother's counsel to evade the wrath...
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So Isaac called Jacob, and he blessed him, and he charged him, and he
said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Arise, and go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy moth...
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he was. Exodus 3:6 Judges 13:22 Matthew 17:6 Luke 2:9 Luke 8:35...
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He was afraid — So far was he from being puffed up. The more we see
of God, the more cause we see for holy trembling and blushing before
him. Those whom God is pleased to manifest himself to, are laid...