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Genesis 35:9-12

Before this time, God spoke to Jacob at this same place, Bethel. (See Genesis 28:13-15.) And when Jacob returned to Bethel, God spoke to him again (in these verses). God repeated some of the things that he had said earlier. He repeated Jacob’s new name, Israel. (For ‘Israel’ see Genesis 32:28 and the comment.)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 35:9. _GOD APPEARED UNTO JACOB AGAIN_] He appeared to him first at Shechem, when he commanded him to go to Bethel, and now that he is arrived at the place, God appears to him the _secon...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - The Death of Isaac 8. דברה _d__e__borâh_, Deborah, “bee.” בּכוּת אלּון _'alôn_-_bākût_, Allon-bakuth, “oak of weeping.” 16. כברה _kı̂brâh_, “length stretc

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 35 JACOB AT BETHEL AND THREE DEATHS _ 1. The divine commandment (Genesis 35:1)_ 2. The defilement put away (Genesis 35:2) 3. The journey to Bethel and the altar (Genesis 35:5) 4. Deborah,...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JACOB GOES TO BETHEL, WHERE ELOHIM APPEARS TO HIM AS EL SHADDAI AND GIVES HIM THE NAME ISRAEL. This section is mainly from E and P. To P belong Genesis 35:6_ a_, Genesis 35:9; Genesis 35:15, the rest...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _when he came … Paddan-aram_ As in Genesis 33:18, P ignores the whole J and E narrative since the departure from Haran; which country appears in P as Paddan-aram....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    GOD APPEARED, &C.— For the _seventh_ time God was pleased peculiarly to reveal himself to Jacob, and to confirm to him all the promises which had been made in the former appearances. Compare the rest...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART FORTY-THREE THE STORY OF JACOB: INCIDENTS IN CANAAN (Genesis 34:1 to Genesis 35:28) The Biblical Account 1 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bare unto Jacob went out to see the daughters...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND GOD APPEARED UNTO JACOB AGAIN, WHEN HE CAME OUT OF PADAN-ARAM, AND BLESSED HIM._ God appeared unto Jacob again. God was pleased to make a new appearance to him after the solemn rites of devotion...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JACOB JOURNEYS BY WAY OF BETHEL TO HEBRON. DEATH OF RACHEL AND OF ISAAC 1. Jacob is commanded to go to Bethel and fulfil the vow he had once made there (Genesis 28:20; Genesis 28:22)....

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHEN HE CAME OUT OF PADAN-ARAM. — The word “out” is not in the Hebrew, which says, _on his coming from_ — that is, on his arrival at Beth-el from Padan-aram. The insertion of the word “out” lends to a...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֵּרָ֨א אֱלֹהִ֤ים אֶֽל ־יַעֲקֹב֙ עֹ֔וד בְּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    JACOB'S RETURN Genesis 35:1 "As for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way."- Genesis 48:7 The words of the Wrestler at the brook Jabbok, "Let me go, for the...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    JACOB BLESSED AT BETHEL Genesis 35:1 Thirty years before Jacob was at Bethel. Life was young then. He had only his staff. The future was unshaped and unknown. It was on the occasion of his first nigh...

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

    God never abandons His children to the forces of evil circumstances resulting from their own folly. The fourth direct communication to Jacob was that which called him back to Beth-el. Again the eviden...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    SPIRITUAL RENEWAL AT BETHEL After such violent, vengeful acts, God called Jacob's to worship again at Bethel. Before Jacob would go, he made everyone give up their idols (compare Genesis 31:19). He a...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    How sweet, how very sweet, are the renewals of divine mercy. Reader! shall I say, I hope you know them. And if so, you will know how to prize 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

    9._And God appeared unto Jacob_. Moses, having introduced a few words on the death of Deborah, recites a second vision, by which Jacob was confirmed, after his return to Bethel. Once, in this place, G...

  • 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

    AND GOD APPEARED UNTO JACOB AGAIN,.... At Bethel, as he had at Shechem, when he bid him go thither, Genesis 35:1; or rather as he had at the brook Jabbok, where he said to him the same things as here,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him. Ver. 9. _And God appeared, &c._] A sweet allayment of his late heaviness for Deborah, and a gracious preparative to...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 God sendeth Iacob to Bethel. 2 He purgeth his house of idols. 6 He buildeth an Altar at Bethel. 8 Deborah dieth at Allon Bachuth. 9 God blesseth Iacob at Bethel. 16 Rachel traueileth of Beniami...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Lord Blesses Jacob...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him. He did not merely speak to Jacob in a dream, but He revealed Himself to him in some visible form, now that Jacob had...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    4. _The departure to Bethel_. Genesis 35:1-8. AND GOD SAID TO JACOB.—The warning to depart comes from Elohim, and hence Knobel and Delitzsch regard the section in Genesis 1:35 as Elohistic, though Kno...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    BETHEL AT LAST Jacob knew he could not remain at Shechem, though it took a humiliating experience in his own house to drive him away from there. God speaks to him in no uncertain terms. He is to arise...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-15 The comfort the saints have in holy ordinances, is not so much from Beth-el, the house of God, as from El-beth-el, the God of the house. The ordinances are empty things, if we do not meet with G...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "And God said unto Jacob. Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there." This confirms the principle on which we have been dwelling. When there is failure or declension, the Lord calls the soul back to Hims...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 35:9 God H430 appeared H7200 (H8735) Jacob H3290 came H935 (H8800) Aram H6307 blessed H1288 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And God appeared to Jacob again when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him. “GOD APPEARED TO JACOB AGAIN.” The ‘again' refers back to the previous theophany at Bethel before he left Canaan (Genes...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jacob's return to Bethel and renewed communion. Death of Rachael. Birth of Benjamin. Death of Isaac. CHARACTERS: Jacob, Deborah, Rebekah, Rachael, Benjamin, Reuben, Bilhah, Isaac, Esau. CO...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 35:1. _And God said._ This is the fifth vision in which the Lord appeared to Jacob; it marks a special providence over his safety, by removing him from the vicinity of Shechem to a peaceful dw...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _God appeared unto Jacob again_ LESSONS 1_._ God useth to knit comforts unto griefs for His saints. When creature comforts go out of sight, God cometh in. 2. God’s appearance is enough to counterv...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there_ JACOB’S SECOND JOURNEY TO BETHEL I. IT WAS UNDERTAKEN AT THE CALL OF GOD. II. IT WAS ACCOMPLISHED IN THE SPIRIT OF OBEDIENCE AND CONSE...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 35:9 BLESSED HIM. This not only confirms the blessing of Genesis 32:29 but also makes Jacob equal to Abraham and Isaac (see...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 35:1 Jacob moves by stages from Shechem to Bethel, eventually coming to Hebron, where his father Isaac is still alive. Transformed by the experiences of Bethel and Peniel, Jaco...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 35:2. THE STRANGE GODS.] These were such as the _teraphim_ that Rachel had hidden (Genesis 31:19), and possibly other idolatrous images used by the Shechemites.— Genesis 35:4...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 35:1 AND GOD—Elohim. The employment of this name for the Deity throughout the present chapter has been deemed conclusive evidence that, with Rome Jehovistic alterations, it belongs...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And so God said to Jacob, Arise, and go up to Bethel (Genesis 35:1), Now Jacob is afraid. Hey, the kings are going to get together. They're going to attack me and wipe me out. And so "God is saying to...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Genesis 12:7 Genesis 17:1 Genesis 18:1 Genesis 26:2 Genesis 28:13...

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