GENESIS CHAPTER 33 Jacob sets his wives and children in the order they shall travel, GENESIS 33:1,2. Meets his brother; his obeisance to him, GENESIS 33:3. Esau kindly embrace Jacob, GENESIS 33:4. His wives and children present themselves to Esau, GENESIS 33:7. Jacob offers a present to his brother,... [ Continue Reading ]
Placing his best beloved in the last and safest place.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE PASSED OVER BEFORE THEM, exposing himself to the first and greatest hazard for the security of his wives and children.... [ Continue Reading ]
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He knew his meaning before from the servants mouths; but he asks, that he might both be more certainly informed of the truth, and have an occasion for a civil refusal of the gift.... [ Continue Reading ]
I neither need it for my use, nor desire it as a compensation for thy former injuries.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THEREFORE I HAVE SEEN THY FACE; or, _for_ I therefore tender it unto thee, and humbly beg thy acceptance of it, _because; _ for thus the Hebrew _al-cen_ is used, NUMBERS 14:43, and elsewhere. AS THOUGH I HAD SEEN THE FACE OF GOD. It is in a manner as pleasant a sight to me as the sight of God hi... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKE, I PRAY THEE, MY BLESSING; this gift, which as I received from God's blessing, so I heartily give it to thee with my blessing and prayer, that God would abundantly bless it to thee. Gifts are oft called _blessings, _ as JOSHUA 15:19 1 SAMUEL 25:27, 1 SAMUEL 30:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
Or rather, _beside thee, _ so as to keep thee company, or to keep pace with thee.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CHILDREN ARE TENDER; the eldest of them, Reuben, not being yet fourteen years old. THE FLOCKS AND HERDS WITH YOUNG ARE WITH ME; or, _upon me, _ i.e. committed to my care, to be managed as their necessities require. See ISAIAH 40:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
We do not read that Jacob did according to this promise or insinuation go to Seir; either therefore he changed his first intentions for some weighty reasons, or upon warning from God; or he used this only as a pretence, which we should not too easily believe of so good a man, especially after such d... [ Continue Reading ]
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BUILT HIM AN HOUSE, which doubtless was some slight building, because he intended not to stay there.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALEM; most take it for the proper name of a place belonging to SHECHEM, as it here follows, called _Salim,_ 1 THESSALONIANS 3:23, and _Sichem_ or _Sychar,_ 1 THESSALONIANS 4:5. But others take it for an appellative noun, and render the place thus, _he came safe_ or _whole to the city of Shechem; _... [ Continue Reading ]
HE BOUGHT A PARCEL OF A FIELD for his present possession and use; for the right which he had to it was only in reversion after the time that God had allotted for it. THE CHILDREN OF HAMOR, i.e. subjects, called his _children_ to note the duty which they owed to him, and the care and affection that h... [ Continue Reading ]
Or, _called upon_ EL-ELOHE-ISRAEL, the particle _lo_ being redundant, as such pronouns oft are, as GENESIS 12:1 JOSHUA 20:2.... [ Continue Reading ]