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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 35:7

El-beth-el. — That is, the God of the house of God: the God into whose house he had been admitted, and seen there the wonders of His providence.

God appeared. — The verb here, contrary to rule, is plural (see Note on Genesis 20:13), but the Samaritan Pentateuch has the singular. No argument can be drawn either way from the versions, as the word for God is singular in them all, and the verb necessarily singular also. In no other language but Hebrew is the name of God plural, but joined with verbs and adjectives in the singular.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 35:7. _EL-BETH-EL_] אל בית אל _the strong God_, _the house of_ _the strong God_. But the first אל _el_ is wanting in one of De Rossi's MSS., as it is also in the Septuagint, Vulgate, Syr...

  • 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

    _the place_ See notes on Genesis 12:6; Genesis 28:11. _El-beth-el_ That is, _the God of Beth-el_. Here, as in Genesis 33:20, the altar receives the name of the deity. _was revealed_ Referring to...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    EL-BETH-EL— That is, _the God of Beth-el._...

  • 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 HE BUILT THERE AN ALTAR, AND CALLED THE PLACE ELBETHEL: BECAUSE THERE GOD APPEARED UNTO HIM, WHEN HE FLED FROM THE FACE OF HIS BROTHER._ El-Beth-el - i:e., the God of Beth-el....

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    35:7 El-beth-el; (a-11) *God of the house of *God....

  • 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)....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    EL-BETH-EL] 'the God of Bethel,' or 'the God of the House of God.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ‘El-bethel’ means ‘God of Bethel’ or ‘God of God’s house’. ‘God had shown himself.’ (See Genesis 28:13.)...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 35 JACOB MOVES TO BETHEL V1 God said to Jacob, ‘Move away from here. Go to Bethel and live there. Make an *altar there for me. I am God. I appear...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּ֤בֶן שָׁם֙ מִזְבֵּ֔חַ וַ יִּקְרָא֙ לַ

  • 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

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

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  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _To him. Hebrew literally, "He called that place the God of Bethel, because there God ( or the angels) appeared to him." Haelohim, with a verb plural, generally refers to angels; when it is applied to...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    El-beth-el, that is the GOD of Bethel. Reader! precious are the Bethels; the house of GOD, and the ordinances of GOD'S home. But how infinitely more precious the GOD of his house. See! that when you a...

  • 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

    7._And he built there an altar_. It has been already stated why it behaved the holy fathers, wherever they came, to have an altar of their own, distinct from those of other nations; namely, to make it...

  • 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 HE BUILT THERE AN ALTAR,.... As he was bid to do, and as he promised he would, Genesis 35:1; AND CALLED THE PLACE ELBETHEL; the God of Bethel; a title which God takes to himself, Genesis 31:13; o...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. Ver. 7. _Because there God appeared._] Heb., _Revelavissent...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _He built an altar_ And, no doubt, offered sacrifice upon it, perhaps the tenth of his cattle, according to his vow, _I will give the tenth unto thee._ And _he called the place_ That is, the altar, _E...

  • 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

    And he built there an altar, and called the place El Bethel (God of Bethel), BECAUSE THERE GOD APPEARED UNTO HIM WHEN HE FLED FROM THE FACE OF HIS BROTHER. By thus instituting the worship of the true...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Jacob Moves to Bethel...

  • 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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    ELBETHEL: that is, The God of Bethel...

  • 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

    EL-BETH-EL, i.e. He confirmed the name which he had formerly given to the place....

  • 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 35:7 built H1129 (H8799) altar H4196 called H7121 (H8799) place H4725 Bethel H416 God H430 appeared...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • 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

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  • 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 35:1 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

    built. Genesis 35:1 Genesis 35:3 Ecclesiastes 5:4 Ecclesiastes 5:5 El-beth-el. i.e., the god of Beth-el....

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    He built an altar — And no doubt offered sacrifice upon it, perhaps the tenth of his cattle, according to his vow, I will give the tenth unto thee. And he called the place, That is, the altar, El — be...

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