PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Genesis
Thomas Whitelaw [1840-1917] · 541,608 words · 594 reading sections
The Pulpit Commentary — Genesis — Section 421
HOMILETICS. Vera. 15-30.-Jacob and Laban, or the deceiver decdved. I. JAcoB's CONTRACT WITH LABAN. 1. 1'he promiaed service-seven years of pastoral !l8Sistance. (1) Freel1 offere1l. '· I will serve thee seven years." Contracts are leg11.!ly and morally invalid where f,c.:ldom in the promiser does not exist. (2) Faithf…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Ver. 20.-Tlie JJOW(!I' of true aJfection,. "And Jacob served seven years for Rachel," &c. I. THE INWARD SPRING OF THE OUTWARD LIFE, Power of the heart over the will, over the circumstances, over flesh. 'l'ime measured by the motions of our thought. The world needs to be taught that the ma…
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EXPOSITION. Ver. 31-And when the Lord saw-liter- version of her husband's affections; and she ally, and Jehovah saw. As Eve's son was regarded the birth of Reuben as a. signal obtained from Jehovah (eh. iv. 1), and Je- proof of the Divine pity. hovah visited Sarah (eh. xxi 1), e.nd was Ver. 33.-And she conceived again…
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she occupied a lower place than Rachel in her husband's nffections ie explicitly declared. This preference of Rachel to Leah was-1. NaJ,ural in Jacob. Rachel had been his he~rt•s choice from the first, while Leah had been thrust upon him against his inclination. But even had this been otherwise, as no man cnn serve …
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Ver. 2.-And 1aoob'e anger was kindled severity older interpreters regard Rachel u age.inst Re.ohel (not without just cause, since using the Divine name more hypoeritarwm, she not only evinced n want of faith nnd who, when their schemes prosper, think that resignation, but wrongfully imputed blame God favours them (V…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. _1--13.~Rach.e.l and Leah, or unlwly rivalry. I. RAcrrEL'S_ENVY OIJ' LEAJI. 1. Th.e. insu.fficient caw;e. "She saw that she bare Jacob no children," while Leah had begun to have a family. Though commonly regarded by Hebrew wives as a peculiarly severe affliction, childlessness was not without its …
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EXPOSITION. Ver. 14.-And Reuben (nt this time four ing superstition) said to Leah, Give me, I or five years old) went (probably accompany- pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes (in the ing the reapers) in the days of wheat hopes that they would remove her sterility). harvest (in the beginning of May), and Ver. 15-And she …
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srmrce of temptation lies in the parent, and not in the child. "To the pure all things ru o rum; but to them that are defiled is nothing pure." 11. A GROWN WOMAN'S BUPERSTITION. " Give me of thy son's mandrakes." Rachel ohviouely shared the popular belief that Reuben's fragrant herbs would have an influence in remo…
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EXPOSITION. Ver. 25. -And it cnIDe to pan, when Raohel Ver. 28.-And i>.e said, Appoint me thy had born J'oseph,-either at or about the wages. Literally, distinctly specify (from expiry of the second tern\ of seven years. a root signifying to· bore, honco to declcm J acob's family now consist.cd in all of eleven accura…
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garten, Kurtz, Rosenmiillcr, Kalisch, Camllish, (from I~?, to be white, meaning either tiw) Murphy, 'Speaker's Commentary,' Clarke, Bush). poplar (LXX., in Hosea iv. 13; Yulgate, Ver. 33.---So shall my righteousness (liter- Kalisch) or tlie stwa:c (LXX. in loco, Keil ; ally, and rny righteousness) answer for me cf. Mi…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 25-43.~acob and Lahan, or craft versus greed. I. JACOB's RESPECTFUL REQUEST OF LAllAN. At the close of fourteen years' harsh and exacting service, Jacob desires permission to take hie wives and children and return to Canaan. The motives which induced him were probably-I. The termination of hie contra…
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EXPOSITION. CH.APTER xxxr. certain that Jacob wns guilty of dishonesty V~r. 1.-And he-JRcob had now served in acting 11S he did) all that was our father's· twenty years with Laban, and must accord- -this we.s n manifest exaggeration ; sed ho~ ingly havo been in his ninety-seventh or morbo laborant sordidi et nimiwm t…
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pioLy, which rocognisecl and grntefolly nc- the beginning of the six years' service, the knowlcd~ed that not hie own "consummate present clause seems to point to the end of cunning,• but Jehovah's watehful caro had that period as the date of its occurrence; in enabled him to out.wit the dishonest craft of which case it…
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sullicicn t reason for departing from the usual had stolen (or, "and Rachel stole," 11.vniling meaning" for" (Rosenmiillcr)-all the riohe ■ herself likewise of the ol?portunity presented which God hath taken from our father,- by her father's absence) the images that thus Rachel and Leah also rocognise the hand were …
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HOMILETICS. Vere. 1-21.-Jacob's flight from Laban. I. THE HO'!IEWARD DESIRE. The long- ing to revisit Canaan, which six years previously Laban's exactions and Joseph's birth (eh. xxx. 25) had combined to inspire within the heart of Jacob, returned upon him with an intensity that could no longer be resisted. Accelerate…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Ver. 19.-Teraphim. "Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's." This the first direct mention of images in connection with worship, tho~gb tradition llpeak.s of Nimrod as an idolater (cf. Josh. x.x.iv. 2). Laban calls them his god~ (ver. 30); yet he and his family knew the Lord. …
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llpe&k not to l&cob-litcrally, le,st tltou speak cl1. iv. 21. And h&at not suffered me to with Jacob; ,,,, ?rOTl >.a>.i1<r17c p,ra 'larrw/3kiss my sons (i. e. the children of Leah and (LXX.) - either good or bad. Literally Rachel) and my daughters 1 It is perhaps .fi·om good to ba,d, meaning that on meeting judging …
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,ed quia in lwwYrem deorum imagines illaa afterwards passed into Leah's), and entered ,olebat ,· vel potius quod Deo sacra fa<:turua, into Rachel's tent-last, because she was the vertebat se ad illaa ima,ginea (cf. Exorl. favourite. Cf. eh. xxxiii 2, in which a simi- xxxii. 4; 1 Kings xii. 28). "This complaint lar p…
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of the best authorities (vide Kurtz, 'History of us has inJurcd the other. This twenty of the Ole1 Covenant,' § 79 ; 'Sacrificial years have I been with thee (vidi irifra, ver. Worship of the Old Testament,'§ 213; Keil in loco; both of ,vl1om quote Bahr's • Sym- 41); thy ewes (1,01, n ewe, whence Rnchol) bolik of t…
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and day, o.nd · for o. whole month together, if Hezron and He.mul were born in Canaan, and ropo.ir into long plo.ins o.nd deserts with- before the birth of Joseph, i. e. while Judah <nt any eholter ; o.nd when reduced to this was yet in Padan-aram, which is contrary to incessant labour, they wero besides chilled by the…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 22-44.-Lahan'spursuit of Jacob. I. THE HOSTILE PREPARATION. Leam- ing of bis son-in-law's departure, Laban at once determines on pursuit; not alone for tl!e purpose of recovering his household gods, but chiefly with the view of wreaking his pent-up_ veng~ance on Jacob, whom ½e now regarded as the …
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copied, on the other hand, the over-confident assertion that no one had Laban·s gods, 11nd the over-hasty imprecation on any who should be found possessing them, are 1:ot to be commended. IV, THE FRUITLESS SEARCH. 1. The musing gods. On the nature, probable origin, and uses of the teraphim see Exposition, ver. 19. The…
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EXPOSITION. Yer. 4~.-And J"acob took a atone, and the designation. And Mizpah; - ,vatch- ,et it up for a pillar-or 11.fatzebah, as a tower, from Tsaphah, to watch. Mizpah ' memorinl or witness of the covenant about afterwards became tho site of a town in the to be formed (nr. 52) ; a different trans- district ~f Gi…
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The Ambic version and Samaritan text read ests under the newly-formed covenant; while ffarit!ia, thou hast erected, instead of yarithi, Jo.cob in his adjuration appeals to the Elohim I have erected or cast up) betwixt me and of .Abmha.m's son. And lacob aware by the thee: this heap be witness, and this pillar fear of h…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 51-55.-Final coven,,ani between Jacob and Laban. I. ENTIRE SEPARATION FROM TEMPTATION IS TBE ONLY SAFETY. Very imperfect knowledge in the Mesopo- tamian family. Rachel's theft of the household gods a sign of both moral and ~piritual deficiency. The religion of Jacob and his descendan…
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EXPOSITION. root i1~C,. to decline or bend, and hence to CHAPTER XXXII. fix oneself clown or encamp ; meaning either Ver. 1. - And .Jacob (after Lo.ban's de· e. multitudinous host, reading the dual fur n parture) went on hie way (from Galeed and plural (:Malventla), or two bands of angels, lllizpah, in a southerly d…
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nying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord people that was with him, and tho flooks, Esau; Thy servant Jaoob saith thus ;-the and he1·ds, and the camels, into two b11nds; c,q,ression "my lord" mny .have been de- -according to Gerlach, caravans o.re fro- signed to intimate to Esau that he (Jacob) quently divided thus in…
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Edom signify not individuals, but mces), Vere. 17-20.-And he commanded the and the mother with the children. Liter- foremost, saying (with admirable tact and nlly, mother upon the children, a proverblo.1 prudence), When Esau my brother meetcth ex;11nission for nnapo.ring cruelty (Rosen- thee, and o.sketh thee, saying,…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 1-23.-Mahanaim, or preparing for Esau. I. THE ANGELIC APPARITION. 1. The time when it occurred. (1) After Jacob had concluded a covenant of peace with Laban. Celestial visitations of a peaceful and encouraging character a.re never vouchsafed to those who are living in a state of enmity with their f…
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Vera. 9-12.-Jacob's prayer. 1. It was the prayer of humility. 2. Of /ctitl,- fnith in a covenant God, faith in him who had already revealed himself, foith in promises made to the individual os well as to God's people generally, faith founde,! on experience of the past, faith which has been mingled with obedience, 11.nd…
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is by some preferred (Calvin, Rosenmiiller, nothing more than au old form of tlie same &o.). word-the sun rose upon him,-" there was Ver. 21l.-And Jacob asked him, and said, eunshine within and sunshine without. When Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. A request Judas went forth on his dark design, we indicating grant bol…
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Yerit~ble contest between two l)uman beings, it i~ appnrent that underlying the pLys1cal struggle., and_ r:lated to 1t as_ the sub~tanco to the shadow, ns the soul to the body, "·n~. another spmtual _contendmg c~rned on by means of prayers and tears (Hosea xu._ 4). (3) Its_ contmuance. Degi~ning proba?ly at midnight…
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Jacob's history is universnlly admitted. He wo.s now returning to the lond of Canann II man of mnture age, being in his ninety-seventh year, and of a singularly diversi- fied experience, both n11tural and spiritual. In his early life he had twice supplanted Esau by means of croft, depriving him of his birthright and bl…
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Eymbolised the life of dependence upon which he henceforth entered with much more entire surrender than before. " As the sun rose upon him, he hnlted upon his thigh. 11 It was the morning of a new life-the life of man's confessed notlungness and God's ma~ife~ted su_ffici~ncy. In such a _light we ~an see light. The day …
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lllden with tho heo.venly blessing he had (ver. 1), and expressive of surprise-and saw won in his mysterious conflict with Elobim, the women and the children; and said, Who and to all appearance free from those para- are those with thee t (literally, to thee, i. e. lysing fears which, previous to the midnight whom t…
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Esna tho same friendly welcome that one brother, while the adoption of the second comin6 into God's presence would receive from will serve in some measure to elucidate Jn- him (Roscnmiiller, Keil, Murphy, 'Speaker's cob's language in ver. 14. But whichever Comment.ar:r'),orthat lte bad come into Esau's way the words…
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journey, while, if presently such was his of age (Murphy, Alford, Gosman, et alii). intention, he must have been providentially And made booths for his cattle. Porter states led, from some cause not ment10ned, tn alter that ho has frequently seen such booths his determination (Bush, Inglis, Clarke), (Succoth, from sacc…
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HOMILETICS. Vcrs. 1-20.-Jacob and Esau, or the brothers reconciled. I. THE MEETING OP' THE DROTHERS. 1. The approach of Esau .. (~) Conscious of his greatness, being attended by 400 am1ed followers; (2) tlnrst!Ilg for revenge, remembering the wrongs he had endured at Jacob's hands; (3) longing to see his brother fr…
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HOMILIES BY V.A.RIOUS AUTHORS. Cb. Diliii.-The fruus of prayer. The "prince" who has been lifted by the grace of God out of the humiliation of his fear and shame to the height of his favour at the throne of the Most High now reveals his princely power. He takes captive Esau's heart; he blesses him in the no.me of God,…
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CH.APTER XXXIV. -who were gathered at a festive entertain• ment (Josephus, 'Ant.,' i. 21, 1), a not Ver. 1.-And Dinah the daughter of Leah, improbable supposition (Kurtz), though the which she bare unto J'acob,-if Dinah was language rather indicates the payinf of a horn before Joseph (eh. xxx. 21) sho was friendly…
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and he lgved the damael,-on the use of they came home-and they ware vary wroth, na'ar for u youth of either sex vide eh. xxiv. -literally, it burned t& t/,qm, (jl"W.tl!f (ef. l'-and 1pake kindly unto the damsel- eh. xxxi. 36 ; l Sam. xv. 11 ; 2 Sam. xix. literally, 11poke to the heart of the damsel, 43). Michaelis ment…
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him to wife. The Rbsoncc of any apology unto them (t.hcso words revert to the pro- for Shechem's ntrocious outrage against ceding ver.ie), We cannot do this thing, to Dinnh need not. be regnrded ns indicating give our sister to one the.t is unoiroumoieed some measure of consent on the part of (vi.de eh. xvii. 11) ; …
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xxxiii. 21 ; Ps. civ. 25)--for them (literally, Commentary') which they macle-bcldl7,- before them, i. e. for them to wo.nder about i. e. either they themselves feeling confident with their flocks and herds. This was the of snccess beca.nsc of the sickness which lay second argnment employed by Hamor and upon the inhabi…
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Perizzites (vide eh. xiii. 7): and I (sc, with youth, he was now afraid to repI"ove them my attendants) being few in number,-liter- (Inglis). 'l'hnt Jacob afterwards attained to nlly, 11wn of nwnher, i. e. that can be easily a proper estimate of their bloody deod hie numbered, a small band (cf. Dent. iv. 27; last prop…
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IV. HAMOR AND THE SBECBEMITEs. 1. 1'/ie condition prescribed by Jacob's sons explained. This was dooe by the ruling sovereign nnd the crown prince in a public assembly convened at the city gate. 2. T/i,e condition accepted by the Shechemites. Trusting to the good faith of the Hebrew strangers, they assented to the prop…
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households, who oJ.!sses the life which is free from the defilement of sensual indulgencG, and in which thG bonds of relationship and virtuous marriages and the sanctities of home are deeply reverenced. WG read nfterwards (eh. xxxv. 5) "the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them."-R. ' Ver. 30.-A…
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obcclicuco to II Divine intimation (Quarry}- Es..u (eh. xxxii. 9)-c.nd was with me ii: 1aid unto Jacob (shortly nfter the incidents the way which I went. This language clearly recorded in the preceding chapter), Arise, looks back to Bethel (vide eh. xx.viii. 20). ro up ~? Bethe_~:-about t~/rty miles dis~nt Ver. 4.-And …
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a gcni!iw (Lange); or he called it El-Beth-el the name given at Peniel may possibly indi- metaphorically, as Jerusalem afterwards ,vas cate a revival in the spiritual lifo of ,Jacob, styled Jehovah Tsidkenu (Jer. xxxiii. 16) which had been declining in the interv,11 und Jehomh Shammah (Ezek. xlviii. 35; between the …
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 1-15.-Bethel revisited. L JACOB's JOURNEY TO BETHEL. I. The occasion of the journey. The c1ime of his sons had made it necessary that Jacob shoulrl leave Shechem o.nd its neighbourhood; but it is doubtful if in the circumstance~ Jacob would have thought of going to Bethel without an express invitatio…
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Vers. 1, 2.-Spiritual renovation. Spiritual life is a thing of growth; never finished here (Phil. iii. 13; Heh. vi. 1). No doubt the all-important question is, Art thou in Christ? And in every ~hristian life there is ·a point, known to God, when the soul passes from death to life (1 John v. 12). For by nature childr…
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Ver. 2.-Jacob's preparation for acceptable woraHp. "Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be ye clean, and change your gannente: and let us arise, and go up to BetheV' "When thou vowest a vow, defer not to pay it," says Ecclesiastes (eh. v, 4); but Jacob had deferred. He made a vow at Bethel, and he seems a…
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worshipping other gods, ten of the tribes wero swept away, and Lave never been redisco,-ered. Indeed the stream was tainted in sourcE , and II grew no purer na it rolled along." When Achan brought the Babylonish garment into the camp of Israel, the chosen of God could not stand before their enemies, but when it was …
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fn1 qf her soul; not into annihilation, but was afterwards disinherited (eh. xlix. 4; 1 Into another (a disembodied) state of exist- Chron. v. l} - e.nd Israel heard it. The ence (vide eh. xxv. 8)-for she died (a. pa- hiatus in the text and the break in the 1\1S. thetic commentary on eh. xxx. 1), that she at this poin…
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HOMILETICS. Vers. 16-29. -From Bethel to Mamre. I. THE DEATH OF RACHEL. 1. Thd travailing woman. Raebel, overtaken by the pains of childbirth, had hard labour. In every instance an inheritance derived from mother Eve (eh. iii. 16) the eorrow of maternity was in her case providentially intensified; perhaps by b~r ad…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vere. 16-29. These family records mingle well with the story of God's grace. The mother's "Benoni" is the father's "Benjamin." Out of the pain and the bereavement sometimes comes the consolation. A strange blending of joy and sorrow is the tale ·of human love. But there is a higher love wh…
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2. nashemath,daugh- 2. Adah, daughter of mah to have been the fourth partner whom tcr of Elon the Hit- Elon the Hittite. Esau espoused. The Sa.maritim version tite. reads llfahe.Jath for Dashemath in the second 3. Mahalath, daugh- 3. Bashemath, Ish- list, which it regards as an error of trau- ter of Ishmael, sis- m…
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inserted by a late redactor, as some main- sons of Esau. The c•:i-,,~, derived pro- tv.in, may legitimately be regartled as v.n open question. bably from ~t(, to be familiar, whence to Ver. 9.-And these are the generations join together, or associate, were Etlomito of Esan - "the repetition of this clause and Horite p…
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or caYc men, who dwolt. iu t.he sa.ndstonc and into a hot spring, and i ltractcd the hunts•· limestone c.wcs with which the land ofEdom men to the spot by its howling" (Keil in abounds. The cave palaces, temples, and loco; cf. Tacitus, 'Hist.,' v. 3). tombs that have been excavated m Mount Ver. 25.-And the children o…
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15, as compared with Numb. xx. 141 affords from history; and (4) this Hadad livetl and probnblo evidence. 3. As to the character reigned before Israel had any kings (vide of the Edomitish kings, it is apparent that it Hengstenberg, 'On the Genuineness of tho was not a hereditary monarchy, since in no Pentateuch,' vol.…
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(Koil, Kalisch, Lange, • Speaker's Comment- the Edomitea. Tho clauso is equivalont to a.ry '). Duke Timnah, -according to the saying, This Esau (already referred to) wo.a ,xplana tion just given this should perhaps the ancestor of these Edomitos. c,e read duke of Tirnnah= Amalek, whose :,,other was Timna (Lange), b…
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