II. THE LORD OF THE COVENANT.

13. And, behold, the Lord stood above it.

Above the top of the ladder, the place where it ended, stood Jehovah, the covenant God of Israel, superintending all this providential scheme of grace. He is the fountain from whence flows all mercy, the height that the ladder reaches to.

I am the Lord God of Abraham.

Jacob has received the birthright and is the heir of the spiritual and temporal blessings that had been promised to Abraham. To Abraham God had revealed himself as Jehovah, the covenant God of the Hebrew race; thus again he revealed himself to Isaac and repeated to him the promises first made to Abraham; now he reveals himself to Jacob as the Jehovah God, and makes to him the same promises that had been made to his father and grandfather. As he is the lineal successor of Abraham God who made the covenant with Abraham recorded in Genesis 15:1-21, stood in the same covenant relation to Jacob. It will be observed that the first promise is that the land shall be given to him and his seed, the same promise made to Isaac and Abraham.

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