Genesis 28:1
BLESSED. This blessing God endorses (verses: Genesis 28:13), by sending Jacob to Haran, as he had blessed Abraham to bring him from Haran (Genesis 12:1). THOU SHALT NOT TAKE. See Genesis 24:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
BLESSED. This blessing God endorses (verses: Genesis 28:13), by sending Jacob to Haran, as he had blessed Abraham to bring him from Haran (Genesis 12:1). THOU SHALT NOT TAKE. See Genesis 24:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
PADAN-ARAIN the plain of Syria.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ in verses: Gen 28:28, Genesis 28:3 and Genesis 28:4 (App-6), marking. items in blessing. See App-10. GOD ALMIGHTY. _EI Shaddai._ See App-4. MULTITUDE: or convocation. Hebrew. _kahal._ First occurance. Occurs 123 times: rendered "multitude" 3, "assembly... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREIN THOU ART. STRANGER. Hebrew of thy sojournings. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_, emphasizing (verses: Genesis 28:6) the effort of Esau to note what would please his parents. CANAAN. Compare Genesis 24:3, and remember who these Canaanites were. See note on Genesis 12:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
PLEASED NOT. Compare Genesis 26:35.... [ Continue Reading ]
MAHALATH. She had. second name, Bashemath, See Genesis 36:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6), emphasizing the items in verses: Genesis 28:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF THE STONES. Hebrew from; i.e. one from among them. Compare verses: Genesis 28:18; Genesis 28:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
LADDER. Hebrew. _sullam,_ from _salal,_ to pile up like terraces;. way cast up, stairway. Occurs only here. Compare Isaiah 35:8; Isaiah 57:14; Isaiah 62:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Jehovah. ABOVE IT. The Hebrew accent (_zark'a)_ emphasizes this as meaning "beside him" (Compare Genesis 18:2, where _'al_ is rendered "by"). It is not the angels, but the Divine faithfulness and promise, which mark "this place" (verses: Genesis 28:16; Genesis 28:17) and make it "the hous... [ Continue Reading ]
DUST... &C. Figure of speech _Paroemia._ App-6. See on Genesis 15:5. IN THEE. Mark the personal gift, and see note on Genesis 17:7 and Genesis 50:24. ALL. This can be fulfilled only in Christ. I WILL NOT LEAVE THEE. This promise first made, here, to Jacob for covenant grace; to the People, for jou... [ Continue Reading ]
SURELY. Figure of speech _Ecphonesis._ App-6. THIS PLACE. See on the word "above", Genesis 28:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 us in grace. "The God of all grace" is emphatically "the God of Jacob" (Psalms 146:5).... [ Continue Reading ]
THE STONE. See Genesis 28:11. Not the so-called "Coronation stone" in London: inasmuch as the heads of the "Geological Survey of Great Britain" unanimously declared that "no stone of that kind was to be found in any part of the Holy Land whence it traditionally comes". Prof. Ramsay also pronounced i... [ Continue Reading ]
BETH-EL. Hebrew the house of El.... [ Continue Reading ]
VOWED. VOW. made. solemn vow. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6. The first recorded vow.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS STONE. See verses: Genesis 28:11; Genesis 28:18. GOD'S HOUSE. Hebrew. _Beth-elohim,_ not Beth-el. TENTH. See App-15 and Compare Genesis 14:20.... [ Continue Reading ]