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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Genesis 28:14

Verse Genesis 28:14. Thy seed shall be as the dust] The people that shall descend from thee shall be extremely numerous, and in thee and thy seed-the Lord JESUS descending from thee, according to the flesh, shall all the families of the earth - not only all of thy race, but all the other families or tribes of mankind which have not proceeded from any branch of the Abrahamic family, be blessed; for Jesus Christ by the grace of God tasted death FOR EVERY MAN, Hebrews 2:9.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - 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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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_,...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    AND THY SEED SHALL BE SO THE DUST OF THE EARTH. See Genesis 13:16, where the same promise is made to Abraham, and 26:4, where it is made to Isaac. It will be well for every student, in order that he m...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _as the dust of the earth_ Cf. Genesis 13:16. _spread abroad_ Heb. _break forth_. Cf. Genesis 30:30, "increased," 43, Exodus 1:12. _to the west_ Cf....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THY SEED SHALL BE AS THE DUST OF THE EARTH, AND THOU SHALT SPREAD ABROAD TO THE WEST, AND TO THE EAST, AND TO THE NORTH, AND TO THE SOUTH: AND IN THEE AND IN THY SEED SHALL ALL THE FAMILIES OF TH...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JACOB DEPARTS FOR PADAN-ARAM. HIS DREAM AT BETHEL 1-4. Isaac bids Jacob seek one of the daughters of his uncle Laban in marriage, and assures him that the blessings and promises bestowed on Abraham s...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ‘As the dust that is on the earth.’ God made the same promise to Abraham and he explained it. He said, ‘Nobody can count the dust on the earth and nobody will be able to count your *descendants.’ (See...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָיָ֤ה זַרְעֲךָ֙ כַּ עֲפַ֣ר הָ אָ֔רֶץ

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

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

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Observe how at every renewed visit of the Lord to his people, that first, and best of covenant mercies, is again confirmed: Genesis 17:7....

  • 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

    14._And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth_. The sum of the whole is this, Whatever the Lord had promised to Abraham, Jacob transmitted to his sons. Meanwhile it behoved the holy man, in relia...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THY SEED SHALL BE AS THE DUST OF THE EARTH,.... Innumerable, see Genesis 13:16; AND THOU SHALT SPREAD ABROAD TO THE WEST; or "the sea", the Mediterranean sea, which was west of the land of Canaan...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the...

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

    _In thy seed shall the families of the earth be blessed_ All that are blessed, whatever family they are of, are blessed in Christ, and none of any family are excluded from blessedness in him, but thos...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JACOB'S DREAM AT BETHEL...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SPREAD ABROAD: _ Heb._ break forth...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    10-15 Jacob's conduct hitherto, as recorded, was not that of one who simply feared and trusted in God. But now in trouble, obliged to flee, he looked only to God to make him to dwell in safety, and h...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    i.e. The nations of the earth, as that word is used....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 28:14 descendants H2233 dust H6083 earth H776 abroad H6555 (H8804) west H3220 east H6924 north H6828 south

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Genesis 28:10 I. Consider the circumstances under which the vision here described was granted to Jacob. He had left his home and was suffering trial and hardship; he was a friendless and unprotected...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven_ JACOB AT BETHEL I. THE WANDERER. It had been a desolate day, and there was only desolation at night. In...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 28:13 THE LORD STOOD ABOVE IT (v. Genesis 28:13) could also be translated “the LORD

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    thy seed. Genesis 13:16 Genesis 32:12 Genesis 35:11 Genesis 35:12...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    In thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed — Christ is the great blessing of the world: all that are blessed, whatever family they are of, are blessed in him, and none of any family ar...

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