PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible — Genesis
Gill, John, 1697-1771 · 265,871 words · 567 reading sections
Genesis 34:5
Genesis 34:5 Ver. 5. And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter,.... That is, that Shechem had defiled her; the report of this was brought him very probably by one of the maids which attended her to the city; for it was hardly to be thought that she should go thither alone, and which must be very distressi…
245 wordsSECTION 302Genesis 34:6
Genesis 34:6 Ver. 6. And Hamor, the father of Shechem, went out unto Jacob,.... Unto the tent of Jacob without the city: to commune with him; to talk with him about the affair of Dinah, to pacify him, and endeavour to gain his consent, that his son might marry her, and to settle the, terms and conditions of the marri…
61 wordsSECTION 303Genesis 34:7
Genesis 34:7 Ver. 7. And the sons of Jacob came out of the field, when they heard [it],..... Either by a messenger Jacob sent to them, to acquaint them with it, or by some other hand: however, be it as it will, as soon as they heard of the abuse of their sister, they immediately left their flocks to the care of their …
319 wordsSECTION 304Genesis 34:8
Genesis 34:8 Ver. 8. And Hamor communed with them,.... With Jacob and his sons, who came in just at that time: saying, the soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: the daughter of the family, and the only daughter in it; for her Shechem had a vehement affection, a strong desire to marry her, and could not be…
108 wordsSECTION 305Genesis 34:9
Genesis 34:9 Ver. 9. And make ye marriages with us,.... There was no objection on their side, it lay on the other; Abraham's servant was charged by him not to take a wife of the Canaanites to his son Isaac; and the same charge was given Jacob by Isaac, Ge 24:3; and therefore Jacob would never agree that his children s…
135 wordsSECTION 306Genesis 34:10
Genesis 34:10 Ver. 10. And ye shall dwell with us,..... Peaceably and quietly, not as sojourners only, but as inhabitants: and the land shall be before you; to choose what part of it they pleased to dwell in, and which they should have in their own power and possession: dwell and trade you therein; in any sort of tr…
117 wordsSECTION 307Genesis 34:11
Genesis 34:11 Ver. 11. And Shechem said unto her father and unto her brethren,.... To the father and brethren of Dinah; he addressed them after his father Hamor had done speaking: let me find grace in your eyes; forgive the offence committed, the injury done to Dinah, and grant the request of her marriage, and it wil…
134 wordsSECTION 308Genesis 34:12
Genesis 34:12 Ver. 12. Ask me never so much dowry and gift,.... Or "multiply [them] exceedingly" {i}, fix them at as high a rate as may be thought fit; the "dowry" was what a man gave to a woman at her marriage; for in those times and countries, instead of a man having a portion with his wife, as with us in our times,…
185 wordsSECTION 309Genesis 34:13
Genesis 34:13 Ver. 13. And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor deceitfully,.... Proposing the marriage of their sister on terms after mentioned, when they never intended it should ever be: Onkelos, Jonathan, and Jarchi interpret it, "with wisdom", as if they answered wisely and prudently, but the word is neve…
114 wordsSECTION 310Genesis 34:14
Genesis 34:14 Ver. 14. And they said unto them,.... Levi and Simeon, to Hamor and Shechem: we cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; not that there was any law against it at that time; and there were, on the other hand, precedents for it both in Isaac and Jacob, who had married the dau…
128 wordsSECTION 311Genesis 34:15
Genesis 34:15 Ver. 15. But in this will we consent unto you,.... Upon the following condition, that Dinah should be given in marriage: if ye will be as we [be], that every male of you be circumcised; as the sons of Jacob were, according to the command given to Abraham their great grandfather, Ge 17:10.…
57 wordsSECTION 312Genesis 34:16
Genesis 34:16 Ver. 16. Then will we give our daughters unto you,.... Meaning Dinah, whom they call their daughter, Ge 34:17; because she was the daughter of their family, and because they were entreating in the name of their father, and in conformity to the language used by those they were treating with, Ge 34:9;and w…
2,754 wordsSECTION 313Genesis 35:1
Genesis 35:1 INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 35 This chapter gives an account of Jacob's going to Bethel, and building an altar there by the order and direction of God, Ge 35:1, where Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried, Ge 35:8, and where God appeared to Jacob, confirmed the new name of Israel he had given him, an…
627 wordsSECTION 314Genesis 35:2
Genesis 35:2 Ver. 2. Then Jacob said unto his household,.... His wives and children; and to all that [were] with him; his menservants and maidservants, and such as remained with him of the captives of Shechem, who might choose to continue with him: put away the strange gods that [are] among you; meaning not the tera…
359 wordsSECTION 315Genesis 35:3
Genesis 35:3 Ver. 3. And let us arise and go up to Bethel,.... Thus prepared and purged, their tents clear of idols, their bodies washed with pure water, and their garments new, neat, and clean; all symbolical of inward purity, and of freedom from idolatry and evil works, as became those who go to the house of God, an…
179 wordsSECTION 316Genesis 35:4
Genesis 35:4 Ver. 4. They gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which [were] in their hands,.... Whether in the hands of his servants or of the captives taken at Shechem, or in the hands of his sons, who had them along with the spoil they took there; so the Targum of Jonathan, "they delivered, into the hand of Jacob a…
417 wordsSECTION 317Genesis 35:5
Genesis 35:5 Ver. 5. And they journeyed,.... Jacob and his family, with all that were with them, from Shechem to Bethel: and the terror of God was upon the cities that [were] round about them; an exceeding great panic seized the inhabitants of the cities of the land of Canaan, all about Shechem, which was from God hi…
138 wordsSECTION 318Genesis 35:6
Genesis 35:6 Ver. 6. So Jacob came to Luz, which [is] in the land of Canaan, that [is] Bethel,.... The place Jacob had called Bethel, when he was there before, was formerly called Luz, Ge 28:19; and is here said to be in the land of Canaan, that is, in that part of the land which was inhabited by those who were proper…
113 wordsSECTION 319Genesis 35:7
Genesis 35:7 Ver. 7. And he built there an altar,.... As he was bid to do, and as he promised he would, Ge 35:1; and called the place Elbethel; the God of Bethel; a title which God takes to himself, Ge 31:13; or rather the sense is, that he called the place with respect God, or because of his appearance to him there,…
182 wordsSECTION 320Genesis 35:8
Genesis 35:8 Ver. 8. But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died,.... That is, when, and quickly after they were come to Bethel; a nurse of Rebekah's came with her to Canaan, when she married Isaac, and is generally thought to be this Deborah, which is not improbable, Ge 24:59, though she might have more nurses than one, as gr…
474 wordsSECTION 321Genesis 35:9
Genesis 35:9 Ver. 9. And God appeared unto Jacob again,.... At Bethel, as he had at Shechem, when he bid him go thither, Ge 35:1; or rather as he had at the brook Jabbok, where he said to him the same things as here, Ge 32:24, though Jarchi interprets it of his appearing again to him at the same place at Bethel, where…
124 wordsSECTION 322Genesis 35:10
Genesis 35:10 Ver. 10. And God said unto him, thy name [is] Jacob,.... Which his parents gave him at his birth, and by, which he had been always called: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name; not Jacob only, as Aben Ezra and Ben Melech interpret it, but Israel also, and that more c…
209 wordsSECTION 323Genesis 35:11
Genesis 35:11 Ver. 11. And God said unto him, I [am] God Almighty,.... And so able to protect and defend him, and to fulfil all promises made to him, and to supply him with everything he wanted; being, as some choose to render the word, "God all sufficient", having a sufficiency of all good things in him to communicat…
3,111 wordsSECTION 324Genesis 36:1
Genesis 36:1 INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 36 This chapter gives us a genealogical account of Esau's family, of his wives and sons, with whom he removed from Seir, Ge 36:1; of his sons' sons, or grandsons, who were dukes in the land of Edom, Ge 36:11; after which is inserted a genealogy of Seir the Horite, into whose famil…
313 wordsSECTION 325Genesis 36:2
Genesis 36:2 Ver. 2. And Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan,.... Of the Canaanites, the posterity of cursed Canaan, most of them were of them, though not all, the two following were, and so those, if different from them in Ge 26:34, one of his wives was of the family of Ishmael, as after related: Adah the…
241 wordsSECTION 326Genesis 36:3
Genesis 36:3 Ver. 3. And Bashemath, Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth,.... The eldest son of Ishmael, see Ge 28:9; called there Mahalath.…
24 wordsSECTION 327Genesis 36:4
Genesis 36:4 Ver. 4. And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz,.... This son of Esau, according to Jerom {n}, is the same with him mentioned in the book of Job, as one of his friends that came to visit him, Job 2:11; and so says the Targum of Jonathan on Ge 36:10; but he rather was the grandson of this man, since he is called the…
119 wordsSECTION 328Genesis 36:5
Genesis 36:5 Ver. 5. And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah,.... In this genealogy mention is made of another Korah among the sons of Eliphaz, Ge 36:16; which Jarchi thinks is the same with this, and takes him to be a bastard, and begotten in incest by Eliphaz, on his father's wife Aholibamah; but Aben Ezra …
201 wordsSECTION 329Genesis 36:6
Genesis 36:6 Ver. 6. And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters,.... The names of his wives and sons are before given; but what were the names of his daughters, or their number, is not said: and all the persons of his house: his menservants and maidservants that were born in his house, or bought with hi…
459 wordsSECTION 330Genesis 36:7
Genesis 36:7 Ver. 7. For their riches were more than that they might dwell together,.... And therefore it was proper to part, as Abraham and Lot had done before, Ge 13:6; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them, because of their cattle; their cattle were so numerous that they could not get pastur…
112 wordsSECTION 331Genesis 36:8
Genesis 36:8 Ver. 8. Thus dwelt Esau in Mount Seir,.... Before he is said to be in the land of Seir, Ge 32:3; now to dwell in a mount of that name; from which driving the Horites, he seized upon and dwelt in it; it had not its name from his own rough, shaggy hair, as Josephus says {r}, much less from the satyrs, and h…
420 wordsSECTION 332Genesis 36:9
Genesis 36:9 Ver. 9. And these are the generations of Esau,.... Or the posterity of Esau, his children and grandchildren, as before and hereafter related: the father of the Edomites in Mount Seir; from whom they of that mountain and in the adjacent country had the name of Edomites or Idumeans.…
52 wordsSECTION 333Genesis 36:10
Genesis 36:10 Ver. 10. These are the names of Esau's sons,.... In this and some following verses, an account is given of the sons of Esau, which agrees with what is before observed, and of his sons' sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau: who seems to be his first wife, and this his first son: Reuel the son …
82 wordsSECTION 334Genesis 36:11
Genesis 36:11 Ver. 11. And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman,.... This was his firstborn, and from him the city of Teman in Edom or Idumea had its name, see Jer 49:7; and Eliphaz is called the Temanite from hence, Job 2:11; four more sons are mentioned, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz; but I do not find that any towns…
179 wordsSECTION 335Genesis 36:12
Genesis 36:12 Ver. 12. And Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son,.... She is said to be the sister of Lotan, the eldest son of Seir the Horite, Ge 36:22; in 1Ch 1:36 mention is made of Timna among the sons of Eliphaz, and of Duke Timnah here, Ge 36:40; and Gerundinsis {y} is of opinion, that Timnah the concubine …
179 wordsSECTION 336Genesis 36:13
Genesis 36:13 Ver. 13. And these [are] the sons of Reuel,.... Another son of Esau's; this man had four sons, as follow, Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah: of whom we know no more than their names, unless Maps or Massa, which Ptolemy {z} places in Idumea, should have its name from Mizzah: these were the sons of B…
72 wordsSECTION 337Genesis 36:14
Genesis 36:14 Ver. 14. And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife,.... See Gill on "Ge 36:2"; here also the Samaritan and Septuagint versions read, "the daughter of Anah, the son of Zibeon":and she bare to Esau, Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah; this is repeated from G…
4,159 wordsSECTION 338Genesis 37:1
Genesis 37:1 INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 37 In this chapter begins the history of Joseph, with whom the remaining part of this book is chiefly concerned; and here are related the hatred of his brethren to him, because he brought an ill report of them to his father, and because his father loved him, and which was increase…
378 wordsSECTION 339Genesis 37:2
Genesis 37:2 Ver. 2. These [are] the generations of Jacob,.... But no genealogy following, some interpret this of events or of things which befell Jacob, and his family, particularly with respect to his son Joseph, as Aben Ezra and Ben Melech take the sense of the word to be from Pr 27:1; but the words may refer to wh…
410 wordsSECTION 340Genesis 37:3
Genesis 37:3 Ver. 3. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children,.... He being the firstborn of his beloved Rachel, and a lovely youth, of a beautiful aspect, very promising, prudent and pious: the reason given in the text follows, because he [was] the son of his old age; being ninety one years of age when he …
452 wordsSECTION 341Genesis 37:4
Genesis 37:4 Ver. 4. And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren,.... Which they perceived by various things in his behaviour to him, by his words, his looks, his gestures, and particularly by the coat he had made him, which distinguished him from the rest: they hated him, and cou…
120 wordsSECTION 342Genesis 37:5
Genesis 37:5 Ver. 5. And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told [it] his brethren,.... As a dream, in the simplicity of his heart; not understanding it, or imagining there was any meaning in it; he told it not with any design to affront them, but as an amusement, and for their diversion, there being something in it odd a…
135 wordsSECTION 343Genesis 37:6
Genesis 37:6 Ver. 6. And he said unto them, hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed. Hear now, so the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, immediately, directly, lest he should forget it, having perhaps dreamt it the night before; though our version expresses more modesty and submission. The dream follows:…
54 wordsSECTION 344Genesis 37:7
Genesis 37:7 Ver. 7. For, behold, we [were] binding sheaves in the field,.... So it was represented in his mind in a dream, as if it was harvest time, and he and his brethren were at work together in the field binding up sheaves of corn that were reaped, in order to be carried home: and, lo, my sheaf arose, and stood…
229 wordsSECTION 345Genesis 37:8
Genesis 37:8 Ver. 8. And his brethren said unto him,.... After he had told his dream, being highly offended with him, understanding the dream, and the meaning of it, better than he did: shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shall thou indeed have dominion over us? denying that he ever should, and reproving him for his …
177 wordsSECTION 346Genesis 37:9
Genesis 37:9 Ver. 9. And he dreamed yet another dream,.... Relating to the name subject as the former, and, for the confirmation of it, only the emblems are different, and more comprehensive: and told it his brethren, and said, behold, I have dreamed a dream more; another dream, and which he told, either as not knowi…
183 wordsSECTION 347Genesis 37:10
Genesis 37:10 Ver. 10. And he told [it] to his father, and to his brethren,.... After he had told it to his brethren, he told it to his father a second time in their hearing, that he might pass his judgment on it, and give his sense of it before them: and his father rebuked him; not as being ignorant of the meaning o…
546 wordsSECTION 348Genesis 37:11
Genesis 37:11 Ver. 11. And his brethren envied him,.... Notwithstanding all the precaution Jacob took to prevent it; they suspecting and fearing that these dreams portended the pre-eminence of Joseph over them, or however served to fill his mind with the hopes and expectation of it: but his father observed the saying…
83 wordsSECTION 349Genesis 37:12
Genesis 37:12 Ver. 12. And his brethren went to feed their father's flock in Shechem. Very probably some considerable time after the telling of the above dreams; it was usual to remove flocks from place to place for the sake of pasturage; and sometimes at a great distance, as Shechem was from Hebron, where Jacob now d…
161 wordsSECTION 350Genesis 37:13
Genesis 37:13 Ver. 13. And Israel said unto Joseph,.... After his brethren had been gone some time to Shechem: do not thy brethren feed [the flock] in Shechem? this question is put, not as ignorant of it, or doubting about it, but to put Joseph in mind of it, and in order to what follows: come, and I will send thee …
199 wordsSECTION 351Genesis 37:14
Genesis 37:14 Ver. 14. And he said to him, go, I pray thee,.... Or "now" {k}, directly, immediately, which is more agreeable to the authority of a father: see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; it having been many days, and perhaps months, since he had heard anything of them; and the rath…
204 wordsSECTION 352Genesis 37:15
Genesis 37:15 Ver. 15. And a certain man found him,.... Many of the Jewish writers {l} say, this was an angel, the angel Gabriel, in the likeness of a man; but according to Aben Ezra, it was a traveller he met on the road; but it is more probable, as Schimidt observes, that it was some man at work in the field that ca…
197 wordsSECTION 353Genesis 37:16
Genesis 37:16 Ver. 16. And he said, I seek my brethren,.... Whom, no doubt, he described to the man, and told him who they were, and to whom they belonged; or otherwise the man would have been at a loss to know who he meant, and what further to say to him, and without which Joseph would never have made the following r…
97 wordsSECTION 354Genesis 37:17
Genesis 37:17 Ver. 17. And the man said, they are departed hence,.... They had been there, in the field where he and Joseph were, and which was probably the field before mentioned; but for good reasons, perhaps for want of pasture, or in order to find better feeding for their cattle, they were gone from thence, from t…
287 wordsSECTION 355Genesis 37:18
Genesis 37:18 Ver. 18. And when they saw him afar off,.... They knew him as soon as they saw him, by his stature, his gesture or manner of walking, and especially by his coat of various colours he now had on, Ge 37:23;even before he came near unto them; the distance he was from them when they first spied him is partic…
4,109 wordsSECTION 356Genesis 38:1
Genesis 38:1 INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 38 This chapter is wholly taken up with matters relating to Judah, the fourth son of Jacob, from whom the Jews have their name, and from whom Christ sprung: it treats of his marriage with a Canaanitess, his children by her, their character and end, Ge 38:1; of his incest with his …
618 wordsSECTION 357Genesis 38:2
Genesis 38:2 Ver. 2. And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite,.... Onkelos and Jonathan, and so Jarchi and Ben Gersom, interpret it a "merchant", to take off the disgrace of his falling in love with, and marrying a Canaanitish woman, which was forbidden by his ancestors Abraham and Isaac, and which his fa…
122 wordsSECTION 358Genesis 38:3
Genesis 38:3 Ver. 3. And she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Er. Which signifies a "watchman": but the reason of the name given by the Targum of Jonathan is, "because he should die without children;'' as if it was the same with Ariri, "childless".…
50 wordsSECTION 359Genesis 38:4
Genesis 38:4 Ver. 4. And she conceived again, and bare a son,.... As soon as she well could: and she called his name Onan; the first son Judah gave the name to, but his wife named this, so called from grief or sorrow; the reason of it, according to the above Targum, was, "because his father would mourn for him;'' h…
76 wordsSECTION 360Genesis 38:5
Genesis 38:5 Ver. 5. And she conceived, and bare a son,.... A third son: and called his name Shelah; which signifies tranquil, quiet, peaceable and prosperous, and is a word that comes from the same root as Shiloh, that famous son of Judah that should spring from him, Ge 49:10 the reason of the name, as given by the …
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