c (i.e. ) In Canaan and Egypt ; for though Canaan was theirs by promiſe, to be fulfilled in after rimes, yet it was not theirs by atual Doxation and Poſſeſſion, but they were Strangers in it, Gen: 17: 8: Pſal: 105: 11, 12. d Exa&ly 405 years, buta ſmall ſum is commonly negleed in a great number; both in ſacred and prophane Writers« There were 439 years between the firſt promiſe, or berween the renewing and confirming of the promiſe by the gift of 1aac, and Iſroels going out of Egypr, or God's giving of the Law, Exod; 12: 40: Gal: 3: 19: bur part of this crime Abraham with his Son Iſaac lived in much honour and comfort ; bur after 1/aac grew up, the Afffiction here mentioned began with 1ſazc in Canaan, and continued to ham and his Poſterity in Zgypt, till this time was expired. .
14 And alfo that nation whom they ball ſerve e, will
| I the f: and afterward * ſhall they come out with * Exod: great ſubſtance g. - P09 np 2; 3G: e (i.e. ) pr, the principal ſeat of their ſervitude, and the lal: 105. inftrument of their ſoreſt Bondage. F( 7. e..) Puniſh, as that word iS T- uſed, Pſal: 51:6: Obad: wv: 21: and elſewhere. g The accompliſhment : whereof, ſee Exod: 3: 22: and I: 2: and 12: 35, 37. | & þ 1n peace 5
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15 And thou ſhalt go to thy fathers thou ſhalt be buried in a good old age. : h (i.e. ) Either 1. Into Heaven, where thy godly Peqyenieots are gone. Or 2. Into the ftate of the dead, where all chy Fathers are gone before thee : This may ſeem more probable, ar leaft in this - Place, partly, becauſe this or the like Phraſe is indifferently uſed concerning good and bad Men. See Gen: 25: 8: Pſal: 49: 19: partly becauſe this Phraſe is ſo expounded, 4s 13: 36 He, i.e. David, was laid v0 bis Fathers, and ( for, that is ) ſaw corruption ; partly, becauie ſome of Abraham's Fathers, and particularly Nahor, his Grandfatber, who lived ang died an Idolater, cannot with any warrant from Scripture be preſumed to be gone to rhe. place of bleſſedneſs in tneir Sovls. * Free from thoſe Affffliftions which ſhall come upon thy Poſterity after thy deceaſe. 16 Bur in the fourth Generation s they ſhall come
hither again : for the iniquity of the Amorites & 15 not yet full
# In the end of the 400 years mentioned, Yerſe 13+ a Generation, being at thattime reckoned at one hundred years, or thereabouts.”Or, in the fourth Generation, numbred from their going into Egypt, or
_ from their leaving Canaan ; which may poſlibly be implieJ by theſe words, they ſballcome hither. $o Caleb was the fourth from Judah, and Moſe; the fourth from Levi, and ſo doubtleſs many others. k (7. e. ) Of the People inhabiting Canaan. And the Amorites, one of thoſe People, Yrſe 21. are here pur for all rhe reſt, as Gen: 48: 22: 1 Kings 21: 26: 2 Krngs 21: 2: Amos 2: 10: either becauſe they were the greateſt and ſtouteſt of all, Amos 2: 9: or becaufe Abram dwelt among that People, Gen: 13: 18: and 14: 13. 7 All M-ns fins are kepr b God as in a Book of remembrance, not oneof them is loſt; and as God exatly obſerves the number and meaſure of Mens fins, ſo he determines
within himſelf, how far, and how long he will bear with finful Men or Nations, and what ſhall be the period of his Patience ; and when that comes,> their Meaſure;is full, and their DeſtruQion 1afallibly comes. See Fer: 51:13: Matth: 23: 32: 1 Theſſ: 2: 16.
| 17 Andit came to paſs, that when the ſun went down, > Heb. « 2nd it was dark, behold a ſmoaking Furnace, and a +F emp of fire. burning Lamp m» that paſſed between thoſe pieces.
E m By which ſymbol God deſigned to repreſent, either x. The | future State of Abram's Seed * the ſmogking Furnace ſignifying Iſrael's Miſery ' in the Iron Furnace of Egypt, as it is called, Jer. 11. 4. and the burning Lamp noting their Deliverance, or Light ſhining out of Darkneſs. Or, 2. His own Preſence ; for God is called a conſuming Fire, Heb: 12: laſt: and both Smoak and Fire are elſewhere mentioned as the ſigns and means of God's Appearance. See Exod. 3: 2. and 19. 9, 16, 18. and 20. 18. And this ſenſe ſeems to be favoured by the follow- ing words, it being the cuſtom of Perſons entring into covenant, to paſs between ſuch pieces, as hath been ſaid ; and becauſe God hath A no on which could viſibly do ſo, therefore he doth it inthis Type
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3 on a 18 Inthat ſame day the LORD Þ * made a covenant F with Abram, ſaying, * Unto thy Seed have I given » Chap.12. this land, from the River of Egypt e unto the great - and 13- River, vhe River Euphrates p : co » (5.6. ) Decreed and promiſed in due time to give, which makes 4 jr as (ureas if it wereaQually given tothem. Or, 7 will give ; words ixod- 23. Of the paſtrime being oft pur for the future, eſpecially in Prophecies. uM. , Not Nilus, which elſewhere is ſo called, bur a leſs River, as is + 3- Sſofficiently implied, becauſe this is oppoſed to the great River here eur: 1:77 following; buta River called Sihor, which divides Ezypt from Canaan. *24* See Num. 34. 5+ Joſbua 13.3. 1Chron. 13. 5. p The accompliſhment 3+ & hereof, ſee 2 Sam. 8. 3-1 Kings 4. 21. and g. 21.
+ 19 The Kenite q, and the Kenizzites r, and the
Chron. et 5 - 26: Kadmomitres s, \ -
Jeh:9: 8: 9 Suppoled the ſame with rhe Midiaxites, by comparing Exod. 4. 1. [a:27: 12, With Judges Is 16. Sce allo. Num, 24.21. 1 Sam. 15. 6, r Thought to
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Chap. XVI.
be the 7dumeans, who ſprung from Kenaz of Eſar's Race. But this ſeems not to agree with Deut. 2+ 5. where God expreſly ſaith to the J/raelites concerning the Idum eans, 7 will give you none of their lands, &c. $ ( 5. e. ) The Eaſtern People, as the word ſignifies, elſewhere called the Hivites, Jeſ. 9. 1. who lived near the Mount Hermon, of. 11. 3. which was in the Eaſt part of Canaan, See P/al. 89. 12.
20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, .
21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgaſhites, and the Jebuſites.
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CHAP, XVI.
Sarah is barren, 1. She gives Hagar, her ſervant, to Abram to be his wife, 2, 3- Hagar conceives and deſpiſes her miſtreſs, 4. Sarai complains of it, 5. Abram leaves her to Sarai's diſpoſal, who deals hardly with her : Hagar runs from her, 6. The angel of the Lord meets her, commands her to return and ſubmit, 7 w==g, Promiſing her a numerous Seed, 10. Names the child, 11. Foretells his diſpoſition, 12. God's looking on her in ber
Aftiftion, comforts her, 13, 14. Her ſon born and named, 15. Abrams age.