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Verse Genesis 28:16. _THE LORD IS IN THIS PLACE; AND I KNEW IT NOT._]
That is, God has made this place his peculiar residence; it is a place
in which he meets with and reveals himself to his follower...
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- Jacob’s Journey to Haran
3. קהל _qâhāl_, “congregation.”
9. מחלת _māchălat_, Machalath, “sickness, or a harp.”
19. לוּז _lûz_, Luz, “almond.”
The blessing of his sons was the last passage in...
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CHAPTER 28 JACOB'S DEPARTURE TO PADAN-ARAM AND HIS VISION
_ 1. Isaac sends Jacob away and gives his blessing (Genesis 28:1)_
2. Esau's action (Genesis 28:6)
3. Jacob's vision and vow (Genesis 28:10...
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YAHWEH REVEALS HIMSELF TO JACOB AT BETHEL. This section is taken from
J and E. To E Genesis 28:11 f., Genesis 28:17 f., Genesis 28:20_ a_,...
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III. THE HOUSE OF GOD.
16. SURELY THE LORD IS IN THIS PLACE, AND. KNEW IT NOT.
It is probable that Jacob did not have so intelligent. conviction of
God's Omnipresence as we have, and thought that he...
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SURELY. Figure of speech _Ecphonesis._ App-6.
THIS PLACE. See on the word "above", Genesis 28:13....
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_in this place_ Jacob's words express astonishment that Jehovah should
have manifested Himself (_a_) in a place remote from his father's
home; (_b_) to himself a solitary wanderer.
_this place_ Compar...
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This section taken from J and E follows upon Genesis 27:45. Observe
the mention of Haran in Genesis 28:10 (cf. Genesis 27:43), and the
mention of Beer-sheba as the dwelling-place of Isaac in...
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DISCOURSE: 45
JACOB’S PILLAR AT BETH-EL
Genesis 28:16. And Jacob awaked out of his sleep; and he said, Surely
the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and
said, How dreadful is...
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SURELY THE LORD IS IN THIS PLACE, AND I KNEW IT NOT— Jacob knew very
well that the Lord was in every place; nor can his words be fairly
understood to contradict this fundamental knowledge. But though...
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4. _Jacob's Dream-Vision at Bethel_ (Genesis 28:10-17).
_The Dream Ladder and the Angels._ Jacob went out from Beersheba
(Genesis 26:25)and set out toward Haran. Note the following
differences of view...
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_AND JACOB AWAKED OUT OF HIS SLEEP, AND HE SAID, SURELY THE LORD IS IN
THIS PLACE; AND I KNEW IT NOT._
Jacob awaked ... His language and his conduct were like that of a man
whose mind was pervaded by...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 28
JACOB SETS OUT ON HIS JOURNEY
V1 Then Isaac called Jacob and he blessed him. He *commanded him,
‘Do not marry a *Canaanite woman. V2 Go to the...
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Jacob said, ‘I did not know it before.’ Until this time, he did
not know that God was with him. He knew that God was the God of his
father, Isaac. But Jacob himself did not know God until God came to...
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SURELY THE LORD (JEHOVAH) IS IN THIS PLACE. — Jacob was not unaware
of the omnipresence of the Deity: what astonished him was that Jehovah
should thus reveal Himself far away from the shrines where He...
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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...
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וַ יִּיקַ֣ץ יַעֲקֹב֮ מִ שְּׁנָתֹו֒ וַ
יֹּ֕אמֶ
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JACOB'S VISION AT BETHEL
Genesis 28:10
This is the Ladder chapter, in which a wayward, weak man is seen
holding fellowship with the Eternal God, who loves us, notwithstanding
our unworthiness, and de...
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Here Jacob is seen exiled from his home, flying from Beersheba. In
this connection we have the account of the first of the direct divine
communications to him. Tired and weary, he reached Luz and duri...
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JACOB LEFT CANAAN
Isaac agreed with Rebekah in the matter of a wife for Jacob. He sent
him to Laban's house to find a wife. Isaac also gave Jacob the
blessing of Abraham from God. When Esau realized...
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Knew it not. Jacob was not ignorant that God fills all places. But he
thought that he would not manifest himself thus in a land given to
idolatry. He begins to suspect that the place had been formerly...
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What gracious effects divine manifestations leave on the mind! Reader!
would you know whether the Lord hath revealed himself to your heart?
Look within. See what hath God wrought! What traces hath the...
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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...
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_THE PILGRIM’S VISION_
‘And Jacob said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it
not.’
Genesis 28:16
At Bethel Jacob gained the knowledge for himself of the real presence
of a personal God....
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16._And Jacob awaked_. Moses again affirms that this was no common
dream; for when any one awakes he immediately perceives that he had
been under a delusions in dreaming. But God impressed a sign on t...
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Jacob becomes now the picture of cast-out and wandering Israel, heir
of the promises, watched over, but an outcast. The wanderings of
Abraham were in the land of promise; those of Jacob, out of it: tw...
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AND JACOB AWAKED OUT OF HIS SLEEP,.... Which had been sweet unto him,
and out of his dream, it being now over; and it having left such a
weight upon his mind, and such an awe upon his spirits, it migh...
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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...
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_Surely the Lord is in this place; I knew it not_ God's manifestations
of himself to his people carry their own evidence along with them. God
can give undeniable demonstrations of his presence, such a...
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1 Isaac blesseth Iacob, and sendeth him to Padan Aram.
6 Esau marrieth Mahalal the daughter of Ishmael.
10 The Vision of Iacobs ladder.
18 The stone of Bethel.
20 Iacobs vow.
1 AND Isaac called I...
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And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in
this place, and I knew it not. The presence of God was in this place,
remote as it was from the spot where the true worship of God...
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JACOB'S VOW...
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C.
JACOB.-ISRAEL, THE WRESTLER WITH GOD, AND HIS WANDERINGS
FIRST SECTION
_Jacob’s journey to Mesopotamia, and the heavenly Ladder at Bethel_
GENESIS 28:10-22
10And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, a...
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JACOB SENT TO PADAN-ARAM
Though scripture tells us that Isaac loved Esau, he had not done as
Abraham had in making sure that Isaac's wife was of his own kindred.
Rebekah's words to him now evidently a...
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16-19 God manifested himself and his favour, to Jacob, when he was
asleep. The Spirit, like the wind, blows when and where it listeth,
and God's grace, like the dew, tarrieth not for the sons of men....
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SURELY THE LORD IS IN THIS PLACE, by his special and gracious
presence, and the manifestation of his mind and will to me; and I
little expected to meet with such a revelation out of my father's
house,...
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These Chapter s present to us the history of Jacob at least, the
principal scenes in that history. The Spirit of God here sets before
us the deepest instruction, first, as to God's purpose of infinite...
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Genesis 28:16 Jacob H3290 awoke H3364 (H8799) sleep H8142 said H559
(H8799) Surely H403 LORD H3068 is...
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JACOB MEETS GOD AT BETHEL (GENESIS 28:10)
Genesis 28:10
‘And Jacob went out from Beersheba and went towards Haran.'
At this stage Isaac and the family tribe are still firmly situated in
Beersheba....
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Genesis 28:16
At Bethel Jacob gained the knowledge for himself of the real presence
of a personal God. He felt that he a person, he a true living being,
he a reasonable soul, stood indeed before an i...
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Genesis 28:11
Sleeping to see. One may be too wide-awake to see. There are things
which are hidden from us until we lie down to sleep. Only then do the
heavens open and the angels of God disclose the...
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Genesis 28:10
Jacob makes his brother's hunger an occasion for bargaining with him
for his birthright. Esau says, "What profit shall this birthright do
to me?" Neither one nor the other knew what good...
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Genesis 28
I. If there be little poetic or romantic charm in the history of
Isaac, what a wealth of it there is in that of Jacob! A double deceit,
followed by banishment from his country; this expulsi...
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CONTENTS: Jacob at Bethel and the Abrahamic covenant confirmed to him
in a dream.
CHARACTERS: Isaac, Jacob, Laban, Esau, Ishmael, Mahalath, angels.
CONCLUSION: The believer should realize that he is...
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Genesis 28:1. _Isaac called Jacob and blessed him._ A heart-rending
business to be forced away from his father's house in the 58th year of
his age. He went not with a train of ten camels, as were sent...
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_Surely the Lord is In this place, and I knew it not_
THE SENSE OF GOD’S PRESENCE
I. This living sense of God’s presence with us is a leading feature
of the character of all His saints under every di...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 28:10 The Lord uses an extraordinary dream
to confirm that the divine promises to Abraham will be fulfilled
through Jacob. A similar event will take place upon Jacob’s return
t...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 28:16 Believing that THE LORD IS IN THIS
PLACE, Jacob describes it as the HOUSE OF GOD. The presence of God on
earth is clearly central in Jacob’s thinking.
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 28:11. And he lighted upon a certain place.] “The term means
_he fell upon the place,_ as the providential stopping-place
incidentally coming upon it, or coming up to it, as t...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 28:10
AND JACOB WENT OUT FROM BEERSHEBA,—in obedience to his father's
commandment to seek a wife (Genesis 28:2), but also in compliance with
his mother's counsel to evade the wrath...
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So Isaac called Jacob, and he blessed him, and he charged him, and he
said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Arise, and go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy moth...
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and I. Exodus 3:5 Exodus 15:11 Joshua 5:15 1 Samuel 3:4 Job 9:11...
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Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not — God's
manifestations of himself to his people carry their own evidence along
with them. God can give undeniable demonstrations of his presence,
su...