PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Genesis
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 265,871 words · 567 reading sections
Genesis 10:8
Genesis 10:8 Ver. 8. And Cush begat Nimrod,.... Besides the other five sons before mentioned; and probably this was his youngest son, being mentioned last; or however he is reserved to this place, because more was to be spoken of him than of any of the rest. Sir Walter Raleigh {i} thinks that Nimrod was begotten by Cu…
651 wordsSECTION 182Genesis 10:9
Genesis 10:9 Ver. 9. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord,.... Which might be literally true; for, from the time of the flood to his days, wild beasts might increase very much, and greatly annoy men who dwelt very likely for the most part in tents scattered up and down in divers places: so that he did a good office …
609 wordsSECTION 183Genesis 10:10
Genesis 10:10 Ver. 10. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel,.... The city of Babel, or Babylon, which was built by his direction; for though Babylon is by some writers said to be built by Semiramis, the wife of Ninus, and others by Ninus himself, yet the truest account is, that it was built by Belus, the same wi…
985 wordsSECTION 184Genesis 10:11
Genesis 10:11 Ver. 11. Out of that land went forth Ashur,.... It is a question whether Ashur is the name of a man or of a country; some take it in the latter sense, and render the words, "and out of that land he went forth into Assyria"; so Onkelos; and in this way go Junius and Tremellius, Piscator, Bochart, Cocceius…
1,270 wordsSECTION 185Genesis 10:12
Genesis 10:12 Ver. 12. And Resen, between Nineveh and Calah,.... This was another city built by Ashur, situated between those two cities mentioned: the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem call it Talsar, or Thalassar, see Isa 37:12 The conjecture of Bochart {b} is more probable, that it is the Larissa of Xenophon, situa…
9,324 wordsSECTION 186Genesis 11:1
Genesis 11:1 INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 11 This chapter gives an account of the inhabitants of the earth before the confusion of tongues at Babel, of their speech and language, which was one and the same, and of the place where they dwelt, Ge 11:1 and of their design to build a city and tower, to make them a name and ke…
922 wordsSECTION 187Genesis 11:2
Genesis 11:2 Ver. 2. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east,.... That is, the inhabitants of the whole earth; not Ham and his posterity only, or Nimrod and his company; but as all the sons of Noah and his posterity for a while dwelt together, or at least very near each other, and finding the place where …
554 wordsSECTION 188Genesis 11:3
Genesis 11:3 Ver. 3. And they said one to another, go to,.... Advising, exhorting, stirring up, and encouraging one another to the work proposed, of building a city and tower for their habitation and protection; saying, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly; they knew the nature of bricks, and how to make them …
753 wordsSECTION 189Genesis 11:4
Genesis 11:4 Ver. 4. And they said, go to, let us build us a city and a tower,.... Some Jewish writers {r} say, these are the words of Nimrod to his people; but it is a question whether he was now born, or if he was, must be too young to be at the head of such a body of people; but they are spoken to one another, or b…
1,552 wordsSECTION 190Genesis 11:5
Genesis 11:5 Ver. 5. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower,.... Not locally or visibly, being immense, omnipresent, and invisible; nor in order to see and take notice of what he otherwise could not see from heaven, for he is omniscient; but this is spoken after the manner of men, and is to be understood…
379 wordsSECTION 191Genesis 11:6
Genesis 11:6 Ver. 6. And the Lord said,.... Not to the angels, as Aben Ezra, but rather to the Son and Spirit, or within himself: behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; which some think is spoken ironically; but I see no reason why it may not be understood seriously, that the people who were conce…
272 wordsSECTION 192Genesis 11:7
Genesis 11:7 Ver. 7. Go to, let us go down, [and] there confound their language,.... These words are not spoken to the angels, as the Targum and Aben Ezra; for, as Philo the Jew observes {h}, they are said to some as co-workers with God, which angels could not be in this work of confounding the language of men; it bei…
518 wordsSECTION 193Genesis 11:8
Genesis 11:8 Ver. 8. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence, upon the face of all the earth,.... Hence that which they feared came upon them, and what they were so careful to guard against befell them, occasioned by those measures they took to secure themselves from it; for not being able to understand one anot…
1,023 wordsSECTION 194Genesis 11:9
Genesis 11:9 Ver. 9. Therefore is the name of it called Babel,.... The name of the city mentioned, and the tower also, which signifies "confusion", as the Septuagint version renders it; and so Josephus {w} says the Hebrews call confusion "Babel": perhaps this name was given it by the sons of Eber, or it might be a com…
393 wordsSECTION 195Genesis 11:10
Genesis 11:10 Ver. 10. These are the generations of Shem,.... Or a genealogy of the posterity of Shem; not of all of them, only of those of the line which led to Abraham, by which might appear the true line in which the Messiah from Adam through Abraham sprung: Shem was one hundred years old, and begat Arphexad two y…
92 wordsSECTION 196Genesis 11:11
Genesis 11:11 Ver. 11. And Shem lived, after he begat Arphaxad, five hundred years,.... So that his whole age was six hundred years, and therefore must live to the times of Abraham, and even throughout the life of that patriarch, or near the end of it; and if he was the same with Melchizedek, as is the general opinion…
230 wordsSECTION 197Genesis 11:12
Genesis 11:12 Ver. 12. And Arphaxad lived thirty five years, and begat Salah. Arphaxad is the first on record that had a son born to him so early; of Salah, See Gill on "Ge 10:24".…
37 wordsSECTION 198Genesis 11:13
Genesis 11:13 Ver. 13. And Arphaxad lived, after he begat Salah, four hundred and three years,.... In all four hundred and thirty eight; the Vulgate Latin wrongly reads, three hundred and three: and begat sons and daughters; not mentioned by name: he died, as the above Arabic writer {z} says, in the month Nisan, A. M…
109 wordsSECTION 199Genesis 11:14
Genesis 11:14 Ver. 14. And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber. He had a son born to him five years sooner than his father had; of Eber, See Gill on "Ge 10:25".…
35 wordsSECTION 200Genesis 11:15
Genesis 11:15 Ver. 15. And Salah lived, after he begat Eber, four hundred and three years,.... In all four hundred and thirty three: and begat sons and daughters; of whom also there is no other account: the same Arabic writer {c} says, he died in the month, Adar, which is called Barhamath, at the close of A. M. 2950;…
90 wordsSECTION 201Genesis 11:16
Genesis 11:16 Ver. 16. And Eber lived thirty four years, and begat Peleg. Of Peleg, See Gill on "Ge 10:25".…
22 wordsSECTION 202Genesis 11:17
Genesis 11:17 Ver. 17. And Eber lived, after he begat Peleg, four hundred and thirty] years,.... All the years of his life were four hundred and sixty four: and he begat sons and daughters; one of which is elsewhere mentioned, whose name is Joktan, Ge 10:25 according to the above Jewish writer {e}, he died in the seve…
3,146 wordsSECTION 203Genesis 12:1
Genesis 12:1 INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 12 In this chapter an account is given of the call of Abram to depart from his own country, with a promise of a divine blessing, Ge 12:1 of his obedience to it, Ge 12:4 of his journey through the land of Canaan, and of the Lord's appearance to him in it, and his promise of it to h…
612 wordsSECTION 204Ge 24:4
Ge 24:4 and from thy father's house; or household, his family, which better agrees with the second call at Haran, than with the first at Ur; for, upon the first call, Terah and his family came along with Abram, and therefore this phrase is omitted by Stephen, who speaks of that call, Ac 7:3 but Terah dying at Haran, h…
433 wordsSECTION 205Genesis 12:2
Genesis 12:2 Ver. 2. And I will make of thee a great nation,.... In a literal sense, as the people of the Jews were that descended from him, and in a spiritual sense believers in all ages and of all nations, that walk in the steps of the faith of Abram, who are his children, and are blessed with him: and I will bless…
320 wordsSECTION 206Genesis 12:3
Genesis 12:3 Ver. 3. And I will bless them that bless thee,.... Not the priests only that should bless his children, the children of Israel, as the Targum of Jonathan, but all men of all nations, and of every age, that speak well of him, commend him for his faith and holiness, and tread in his steps, these are blessed…
332 wordsSECTION 207Genesis 12:4
Genesis 12:4 Ver. 4. So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him,.... Or, "when the Lord had spoken to him", as Cocceius renders the words; when he had called him a second time, even when in Haran, immediately after the death of his father Terah; as soon as ever the words were spoken to him before recorded, he …
321 wordsSECTION 208Genesis 12:5
Genesis 12:5 Ver. 5. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son,.... The son of Haran his brother, not against their wills, but with their full consent: Sarai went readily with him, not only as being his wife, and so obliged by the law of marriage and tie of relation, but on the score of religion; and Lo…
686 wordsSECTION 209Genesis 12:6
Genesis 12:6 Ver. 6. And Abram passed through the land,.... Entering the northern part of it, as appears by his going southward, Ge 12:9 he went on unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh; the place afterwards called Shechem, from a prince of that name in the times of Jacob; and so it was called when Moses …
269 wordsSECTION 210Genesis 12:7
Genesis 12:7 Ver. 7. And the Lord appeared unto Abram,.... Perhaps in an human form, and so it was the Son of God; for whenever there was any visible appearance of a divine Person, under the former dispensation, it seems to be always of the essential Word, that was to be incarnate, and who spake with an articulate voi…
169 wordsSECTION 211Genesis 12:8
Genesis 12:8 Ver. 8. And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel,.... As it was afterwards called by Jacob, which before and at this time had the name of Luz, Ge 28:19 now to the east of this place was a mountain, whither Abram removed his tent from Sichem, which was about twenty miles from it, as…
367 wordsSECTION 212Genesis 12:9
Genesis 12:9 Ver. 9. And Abram journeyed,.... He did not stay long in the mountain between Bethel and Hai, but moved from thence, and kept on journeying in the land of Canaan: going on still toward the south; the southern part of the land of Canaan, which lay nearest Egypt, into which he is said to go next, the occas…
64 wordsSECTION 213Genesis 12:10
Genesis 12:10 Ver. 10. And there was a famine in the land,.... The land of Canaan, which was a very fruitful country, abounding with all kind of provisions usually; but now there was a scarcity of all; and which was both for the sins of the inhabitants of the land, and for the trial of Abram's faith, who was brought o…
3,225 wordsSECTION 214Genesis 13:1
Genesis 13:1 INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 13 This chapter gives an account of the return of Abram from Egypt to the land of Canaan, and to the same place in it he had been before, Ge 13:1 and of a strife between the herdsmen of Abram and Lot, and the occasion of it, Ge 13:5 which was composed by the prudent proposal of Ab…
357 wordsSECTION 215Genesis 13:2
Genesis 13:2 Ver. 2. And Abram was very rich,.... He was rich in spiritual things, in faith, and in all other graces, and was an heir of the kingdom of heaven; and in temporal things, as it sometimes is the lot of good men to be, though but rarely, at least to be exceeding rich, as Abram was; or "very heavy" {r}, as t…
242 wordsSECTION 216Genesis 13:3
Genesis 13:3 Ver. 3. And he went on in his journeys from the south,.... He took the same tour, went the same road, stopping at the same resting places, as when he went down to Egypt; having learned, as Jarchi observes, the way of the earth, that a man should not change his host. Though some, as Ben Gersom, understand …
124 wordsSECTION 217Ge 28:19
Ge 28:19 unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning; when he first came into the land of Canaan, to a mountain between Bethel and Hai; afterwards called Mount Ephraim, and was four miles from Jerusalem on the north {t}; see Ge 12:8. {t} Bunting's Travels, &c. p. 59.…
54 wordsSECTION 218Genesis 13:4
Genesis 13:4 Ver. 4. Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first,.... When he first came to that place, and before he went down to Egypt: it is not said he came to the altar, but "to the place", where it had stood, for it seems now to have been demolished, either having fallen of itself, being ma…
205 wordsSECTION 219Genesis 13:5
Genesis 13:5 Ver. 5. And Lot also, which went with Abram,.... into Egypt, and was now come back with him; had flocks, and herds, and tents; flocks of sheep, and herds of cattle, of oxen, asses and camels, and tents for himself and his servants to dwell in, and put his substance in.…
54 wordsSECTION 220Genesis 13:6
Genesis 13:6 Ver. 6. And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together,.... That part of the country where Abram and Lot were could not afford them room enough for their several tents; or however could not furnish them with sufficient pasturage for their flocks and herds, they were so numerous; at…
156 wordsSECTION 221Genesis 13:7
Genesis 13:7 Ver. 7. And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle,.... Not between the two masters, but between their servants, their upper servants, that had the care of their herds to feed them, and water them; and it is very probable their strife was about pasturage a…
400 wordsSECTION 222Genesis 13:8
Genesis 13:8 Ver. 8. And Abram said unto Lot,.... Being either an ear witness himself of the contentions of their servants, or having it reported to him by credible persons, he applied himself to Lot, in order to make peace, being a wise and good man; and though he was senior in years, and superior in substance, and h…
332 wordsSECTION 223Genesis 13:9
Genesis 13:9 Ver. 9. [Is] not the whole land before thee?.... Signifying, that though there were not room and convenience for them both in that part of the country in which they were, yet there were in other parts; and though the land was given to Abram, he did not desire Lot to depart out of it; nay, he sets it all b…
360 wordsSECTION 224Genesis 13:10
Genesis 13:10 Ver. 10. And Lot lifted up his eyes,.... He immediately fell in with Abram's proposal, but had not the ingenuity to return back the choice to Abram which he gave him, but took the advantage of it; nor did he show any uneasiness or unwillingness to part from Abram, though so near a relation, and so wise a…
633 wordsSECTION 225Genesis 13:11
Genesis 13:11 Ver. 11. Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan,.... Because of its good pasturage, and because of the plenty of water there; the want of both which was the inconvenience he had laboured under, and had occasioned the strife between his and Abram's servants: and Lot journeyed east, or "eastward"; for…
259 wordsSECTION 226Genesis 13:12
Genesis 13:12 Ver. 12. Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan,.... In that part of the land strictly so called, where the family of the Canaanites had their abode; for otherwise taking Canaan in a more general sense, the plain of Jordan, and cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, were in the land of Canaan. And Lot dwelt in the ci…
195 wordsSECTION 227Genesis 13:13
Genesis 13:13 Ver. 13. But the men of Sodom [were] wicked,.... Which either he knew not, and so ignorantly made this bad choice, to take up his abode among such very wicked men, which occasioned a great deal of grief, trouble, and vexation to him; or if he knew it, the pleasing prospect of convenience for his cattle, …
196 wordsSECTION 228Genesis 13:14
Genesis 13:14 Ver. 14. And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him,.... The Lord appeared unto him as he had before, and with an articulate voice spoke unto him, to comfort him upon the separation of his kinsman from him, and to renew the grant of the land of Canaan to him and his seed, and to …
207 wordsSECTION 229Genesis 13:15
Genesis 13:15 Ver. 15. For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it,.... Not only so much of it as his eye could reach, but all of it, as far as it went, which way soever he looked; and this he gave him to sojourn in now where he pleased, and for his posterity to dwell in hereafter; he gave him the title …
192 wordsSECTION 230Genesis 13:16
Genesis 13:16 Ver. 16. And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth,.... An hyperbolical expression denoting the great multitude of Abram's posterity, as they were in the days of Solomon, and as they will be in the latter day; and especially as this may respect all the spiritual seed of Abram, Jews and Gentiles, …
903 wordsSECTION 231Genesis 30:1
Genesis 30:1 INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 30 This chapter gives an account of Rachel's envy of her sister for her fruitfulness, and of her earnest desire of having children, which she expressed to Jacob in an unbecoming manner, for which he reproved her, Ge 30:1, of her giving her maid Bilhah to Jacob, by whom he had two …
507 wordsSECTION 232Genesis 30:2
Genesis 30:2 Ver. 2. And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel,.... Whom yet he dearly loved, hearing her talk in such an extravagant manner, as her words seemed to be, and were not: only expressive of great uneasiness and impatience, but implied what was not in the power of man to do: and he said, [am] I in God's…
185 wordsSECTION 233Genesis 30:3
Genesis 30:3 Ver. 3. And she said,.... in order to pacify Jacob, and explain her meaning to him; which was, not that she thought it was in his power to make her the mother of children, but that he would think of some way or another of obtaining children for her, that might go for hers; so the Arabic version, "obtain a…
188 wordsSECTION 234Genesis 30:4
Genesis 30:4 Ver. 4. And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid,.... To be enjoyed as a wife, though she was no other than a concubine; yet such were sometimes called wives, and were secondary ones, and were under the proper lawful wife, nor did their children inherit; but those which Jacob had by his wives' maids did inher…
139 wordsSECTION 235Genesis 30:5
Genesis 30:5 Ver. 5. And Bilhah conceived, and bare Jacob a son. This was so far countenanced by the Lord, that he blessed her with conception, and Jacob with a son by her.…
34 wordsSECTION 236Genesis 30:6
Genesis 30:6 Ver. 6. And Rachel said,.... As soon as she heard that Bilhah had bore a son: God hath judged me: and hereby testified his approbation, as she understood it, of the step she had took in giving her maid to her husband, and she was justified in what she had done: and hath also heard my voice: of prayer; s…
185 wordsSECTION 237Genesis 30:7
Genesis 30:7 Ver. 7. And Bilhah, Rachel's maid, conceived again,.... Soon after the birth of her first child: and bare Jacob a second son; this was his sixth son, but the second by Bilhah.…
35 wordsSECTION 238Genesis 30:8
Genesis 30:8 Ver. 8. And Rachel said, with great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister,.... Or, "with the wrestlings of God" {a}, wrestling and striving in prayer with God; being vehement and importunate in her petitions to him, that she might have children as well as her sister: some render it, "I used the crafti…
199 wordsSECTION 239Genesis 30:9
Genesis 30:9 Ver. 9. When Leah saw that she had left bearing,.... For a little while, for she afterwards bore again, and observing also what her sister had done; she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife: in this she was less excusable than Rachel, since she had four children of her own, and therefore migh…
89 wordsSECTION 240Genesis 30:10
Genesis 30:10 Ver. 10. And Zilpah, Leah's maid, bore Jacob a son. For it seems he consented to take her to wife at the motion of Leah, as he had took Bilhah at the instance of Rachel; and having gratified the one, he could not well deny the other; and went in to her, and she conceived, though neither of these things a…
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