_And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan._ Ver. 1. _Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him._] He doth not rate him, or rail at him. Anger must have an end. The prodigal's father met him and kissed him, when one... [ Continue Reading ]
Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. Ver. 2. _Arise, go to Padanaram._] Jacob was no sooner blest, but banished. So our Saviour was no sooner out of the water of baptism, and had heard,... [ Continue Reading ]
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; Ver. 3. _And God Almighty bless thee._] Here Isaac establishes the blessing to Jacob, lest haply he should think, that the blessing so got, would be of no force to him. God passeth by... [ Continue Reading ]
And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham. Ver. 4. _And give thee the blessing of Abraham._] Here he is made "heir of the blessing," as are also all true Christians. 1Pe 3:9 C... [ Continue Reading ]
And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother. Ver. 5. _Isaac sent away Jacob._] With his staff only, Gen 32:10 and to "serve for a wife". Hos 12:12 It was otherwise, when a wife was provided for Isaac. B... [ Continue Reading ]
When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan; Ver. 6. _When Esau saw, &c._] But he was ever too late (Oψινοος), and therefore... [ Continue Reading ]
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram; Ver. 7. _And was gone to Padanaram._] Which was distant from Beersheba almost five hundred miles. This was the father of the that family of travellers; and his affliction is our instruction. Romans 15:4 1Co 10:11... [ Continue Reading ]
And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father; Ver. 8. _Pleased not Isaac his father._] Whether himself or they pleased God or not, was no part of his care. God is not in all the wicked man's thoughts. Psa 10:4 What he strives for is, to be well esteemed of by others, to... [ Continue Reading ]
Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife. Ver. 9. _Then went Esau unto Ishmael._] _Stulta haec fuit_ κακοζηλια, _et hypocrisis_, saith Pareus rightly. Apes will be imitating men: spiders... [ Continue Reading ]
And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. Ver. 10. _And Jacob went out from Beersheba._] A long journey, but nothing so long as Christ took, from heaven to earth, to serve for a wife, his Church; who yet is more coy than Rachel, and can hardly be spoken with, though he stand clappin... [ Continue Reading ]
And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put [them for] his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. Ver. 11. _And he lighted upon a certain place._] Little thinking to have found heaven there. Let t... [ Continue Reading ]
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. Ver. 12. _Behold a ladder._] _Scala est, piorum in hoc mundo peregrinatio_, saith Pareus, after Junius. But besides this interpretation, our Sav... [ Continue Reading ]
And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I [am] the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; Ver. 13. _I am the Lord God of Abraham, &c._] What an honour is this to Abraham, that God was not ashamed to be call... [ Continue Reading ]
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Ver. 14, 15. _And thy seed shall be as the dust._] Against his fourfold cross, h... [ Continue Reading ]
And, behold, I [am] with thee, and will keep thee in all [places] whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done [that] which I have spoken to thee of. Ver. 15. _See Trapp on "_ Gen 28:14 _"_... [ Continue Reading ]
And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew [it] not. Ver. 16. _And I knew it not,_] viz., That God is graciously present in one place, as well as in another. Our ignorance and unbelief is freely to be confessed and acknowledged. Thus David; Psa 73:2... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 public worship is a place of angels and archangels, saith Chrysostom; _a_ it is the kingdom of God; it... [ Continue Reading ]
And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put [for] his pillows, and set it up [for] a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. Ver. 18. _And set it up for a pillar._] The better to perpetuate the memory of that mercy he had there received; and that it might be a witn... [ Continue Reading ]
And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city [was called] Luz at the first. Ver. 19. _Bethel,_] i.e., The house of God; yet afterwards for the calf worshlp there set up by Jeroboam, it became Bethaven. Hos 4:15 See the note there. God grant that _Anglia_, once called _Regn... [ Continue Reading ]
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, Ver. 20. _And Jacob vowed a vow._] The first holy vow that ever we read of: whence Jacob also is called the father of vows; which, out of this text, m... [ Continue Reading ]