Genesis 28:1-22
blessed <01288> [blessed.]
marry <03947> [Thou shalt.]
immediately <06965> [Arise.]
Paddan Aram <06307> [Padan-aram.]
Laban <03837> [Laban.]
God <0410> [God.]
fruitful <06509> [and make.]
large <06951> [a multitude. Heb. an assembly.]
blessing <01293> [the blessing.]
living as a temporary resident <04033> [wherein thou art a stranger. Heb. of thy sojournings.]
God <0430> [which.]
sent Jacob ......................... Jacob <07971 03290> [sent away Jacob.]
Whoever observes Jacob's life, after he had surreptitiously obtained his father's blessing, will perceive that he enjoyed very little worldly felicity. His brother purposed to murder him, to avoid which he was forced to flee from his father's house; his uncle Laban deceived him, as he had deceived his father, and treated him with great rigour; after a servitude of 21 years, he was obliged to leave him in a clandestine manner, not without danger of being brought back, or murdered by his enraged brother; no sooner were these fears over, than he experienced the baseness of his son Reuben, in defiling his bed; he had next to bewail the treachery and cruelty of Simeon and Levi toward the Shechemites; then he had to feel the loss of his beloved wife; he was next imposed upon by his own sons, and had to lament the supposed untimely end of Joseph; and to complete all, he was forced by famine to go into Egypt, and there died, in a strange land. So just, wonderful, and instructive are all the ways of Providence!
Paddan Aram <06307> [Padan-aram.]
Esau <06215> [Esau.]
find ............... marry <03947> [Thou.]
women <01323> [the daughters.]
displeasing <05869 07451> [pleased not. Heb. were evil in the eyes.]
Ishmael .............. Ishmael <03458> [unto Ishmael.]
Mahalath <04258> [Mahalath. called also, Bashemath.]
sister <0269> [the sister.]
took <03947> [took.]
near ... head <07760 04763> [put them.]
This should be "put it;" for we find (ver. 18) it was only one stone.
dream <02492> [he dreamed.]
stairway <05551> [ladder.]
Lord stood .......... Lord <05324 03068> [the Lord stood.]
Lord ........... Lord <03068> [I am.]
ground <0776> [the land.]
descendants ......................................... descendants <02233> [thy seed.]
spread out <06555> [spread abroad. Heb. break forth. to the west.]
descendants ......................................... descendants <02233> [and in thee.]
protect <08104> [I am.]
protect <08104> [keep.]
back <07725> [bring.]
leave <05800> [for I.]
wherever ................... have ... what <0834> [until.]
realize <03045> [and I.]
afraid ...... awesome <03372> [he was.]
house <01004> [the house.]
Early <07925> [rose up.]
took <03947> [and took.]
The practice of setting up stones as a memorial by travellers still exists in Persia, and other parts of the East.
placed ...... set <07760> [set it.]
poured <03332> [poured.]
called ........ name <08034> [the name.]
Bethel <01008> [Beth-el. i.e., the house of God.]
made <05087> [vowed.]
God <0430> [If God.]
gives <05414> [will give.]
return <07725> [I come.]
Lord <03068> [then.]
God <0430> [God's.]
surely ...... tenth <06237> [I will.]
Genesis 29:22-28
prepared <06213> [and made.]
brought ......... had marital relations <0935> [brought her.]
Zilpah <02153> [Zilpah.]
morning <01242> [in the morning.]
tricked <07411> [wherefore.]
here <04725> [country. Heb. place.]
week <07620> [week.]
give <05414> [we will.]
When ... completed .... week <07620 04390> [fulfilled her week.]
The public marriage feast made on this occasion, seems to have formed the regular method of recognising the marriage, and lasted seven days: it would therefore have been improper to have broken off the solemnities to which all the men of the place had been invited (ver. 22) and probably Laban wished to keep the fraud from the public eye. It is perfectly plain that Jacob did not serve seven years more before he got Rachel to wife.
Genesis 29:1
Jacob <03290> [Jacob.]
moved on <05375 07272> [went on his journey. Heb. lifted up his feet. came.]
people <01121> [people. Heb. children. east.]
The district of Mesopotamia, and the whole country beyond the Euphrates, are called Kedem, or the East, in the Sacred Writings.
Genesis 9:7-8
Genesis 9:2
Genesis 7:20
mountains <02022> [and the mountains.]
Psalms 44:13-14
made <07760> [makest.]
taunt <03933> [scorn.]
object of ridicule <04912> [by-word.]
contempt <04493> [shaking.]
Jeremiah 24:9
<02189> [to be removed. Heb. for removing, or vexation.]
object of reproach <02781> [to be a.]
curses <07045> [a curse.]
Jeremiah 25:9
send <07971> [I.]
Nebuchadnezzar <05019> [Nebuchadrezzar.]
land .... inhabitants ..... nations <0776 03427 01471> [against.]
horror <08047> [an astonishment. See on ch.]
Joel 2:17
priests <03548> [the priests.]
vestibule <0197> [between.]
say .............................. said <0559> [and let.]
pity <02347> [Spare.]
turn <05414> [and give.]
nations <01471> [that.]
say ...................... proverb ......... said <04910 0559> [rule over them. or, use a byword against them.]
say .............................. said <0559> [wherefore.]
Zechariah 8:13
curse <07045> [a curse.]
<01004> [O house.]
blessing <01293> [ye shall.]
The consideration that all nations who now worship the true God, and receive the Sacred Scriptures as His word, have derived the whole of their divine knowledge, under God, from Jewish prophets, apostles, and teachers, and that the Saviour "in whom all nations shall be blessed," sprang from that favoured race, emphatically explains what is meant by "ye shall be a blessing." The full accomplishment of this prediction, however, is probably reserved for the future restoration of the Jews.
afraid <03372 03027> [fear not.]
