wives,and his two women-ſervants,and his eleven ſons
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c, and paſled over the foord Jabbok 4. | | c And Dinah, though ſhe be nor h=re mentioned ; as the women are oft omitted inS$cripture,as being comprehended under the men: d4 Which is here generally related, bur the time and manner of it is particularly deſcribed inthe following verſes. Of this Foord Jab- bok ſee Numb: 21: 24: Deut: 3: 16. ; |
23 And he took them, and jſcnt them and ſent over thathohad. - + 4 |. 24 And Jacob wasleft alone e: and thee wreſtled a 4,14 man f with him, until che breaking of che'day. cending of e In ſomeprivate place, if matters not on which fide Fab$0%,that ;p, marnins. he might more freely and ardently pour our his ſoul unto ,God.f Ad. Angel, yea, the Angel of the, Covenaar, the Son of God; .asit is
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| plain from ver: 28, 30: ar:d Hof. 12: 3, 4. who did here, as oft elſes,
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SOT of Angels; wherein he ſhewed the werkaneſs of his Faith,
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T EB AN \ Alle work: For this wreſtling was real and corporeal in its nature, tho it was alfo myftical and fpirirual in irs fignification, as we ſhal ſee, and it was accompanied with an inward wreſtling by ardent pray- ers joined with tears, Hoſ. 12. FU 25 And when he faw that he prevailed not againſt
® 04, him os, he touched * the hollow of his thigh + * andthe See Mat. 25 _ WA 26: 4x. hollow of Jacob's thigh was our of joint, as he wreſt-
2Cor:12:7: Jed with him 6,
g Not through impotency, but in deſign, heſuffered himſelf to be-conquered, to encourage Jacob's faith and hope againſt the ap- proaching danger. + The joint of his Hip-bone, or rather the hollow in which that joint was. þ Which was done, that Jacob might ſee that it was not his own ſtrength, but only God's grace, which got him this Viftory, and could give him the deliverance which Fe hoped for.
26 And he ſaid, Let me go 3, for the day breaketh * of 12. &; and he ſaid, * I will not let thee go, except thou 4+ bleſs me },
; ; He faith this, partly to ſhew the prevailing power of his pray- er with God,and partly te quicken and encourage7acob to periiit in his conflid. Compare Exod. 32. 10. Deut. 9. 14. k And Iam not wil- ling that there ſhou!d be any ſpeQators or witneſſes of theſe things.
{ With the bleſſings which thou haſt promiſed to 4braham and to me, among which one is proteCtion in this hour of my danger. For Jacob now began to think that it was no man, nor ordinary Angel, that was with him, but God himſelf, as he ſaith, ver. 30.
27 And he ſaid unto him, What is thy name? And he ſaid, Jacob. :
28 And he faid,* Thy name ſhall be called no more Jacob m, but Iſrael »: for as a Prince haſt thou power with God and with men s, and haſt prevailed p.
-m Not Jacob only. See the like manner of expreſſion, 1 Sam.8.7. Jer. 23. 7. 'Joh. 7. 16. x Cor. 1. 17. = Which ſignifies @ Prince or pre- wailer with God + or a Prince of God ; i. e. a great Prince and Con- queror. o Thou haſt in ſome ſort conquered both God in this con- fAi&t, and men, Laban, Eſau, &c. p Or, and ſhale prevail over Eſau of whom thou art afraid.
29 And Jacob asked b/m,and ſaid, Tell me,] pray thee, thy name-9; and he ſaid, Wherefore is it that thou doſt ask after my nam? 7 ? and hebleiled him there 5.
9 That I may give thee the honour due to it. Artthou a created Angel, or att thou the Eve: bleſſed God ? r A queſtion which car- TICS 11 it both a denial of his requeſt, as Judges 13. 17, 18. anda reproof of his curiofity. 5Ta an eminent and pecu'iar manner,which was a real anſwer to Jacob's queition, and gave him to underſtand both his name and nature.
20 AndJacobcalied the name of the place F Peniel : for I * have ſcen God face to face ?, andmy life is pre- ſerved «,
*Exod.24. #* Notin his Eſſence, for ſo no man ever ſaw God, John 7. 18. nor
11. and Yetin a dream or viſion, but in a moſt evident, ſenſible, familiar:
33- 20, and friendly manifeſtation ofhimſelf. » And I am now well afſur-
Deut:s. ed cf my ſafety from Eſau,whoſe approach threatned my life. Or
24. he ſpeaks of it with-wonder, as others did, that he ſhould ſee God,
Tfa.6.5. and not be ſtruck dead by the Glory of his preſence. Compare Ger: IG: 13: Exod. 20. 19. Judges 6. 22, 23. and 13: 22.
31 And as he pailed over Peniel, the ſun roſe upon hyn, and he halted upon his wr;
32 Therefore the children of Iſrael eat not » of the ſinew which ſhrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day : becauſe he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh, in the finew that ſhrank.
- x Not from any ſuperſtitious conceit about it, but only for a memorial cf this admirable confli&, the bletied effets whereof e- ven the future generations received.
CHAP. XXXIII.
Jacob ſets his wives and children in the order they ſhall travel, r, 2. Meets
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*Chap.35.
his brother; his obeyſance ts him, 3 Eſau kindly embraces Jacob, 4. His |
wives and chilaren freſent themſelves to Eſau, 7. Jacob offers a preſent to his brother, 8. He refuſes it, g. Jacob preſſes him, and he accepts, 10, 11. They part friendly, 12-=--==i 5, Elau returns to Seir ; Jacob comes zo Succoth, 17. from thence hegoes to Sichem; where he buyes a field for 100 pieces of money ; builds an altar; calls 7 El-Elohe-Ijrael, 1 8----20,
: ND Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and be- *Chap.32, hold, * Eſau came, and with him four hundred 6 men: and hedivided the children unto Leah ,and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. |
2 And he put the handmaids,and their children fere- moſt, and Leah and her children afrer, and Racheland
Joſeph hindermoft .
a Placing his be? beloved in the laſt and ſafeſt place.
And he pailed over before them b,and bowed him- ſelf to the ground ſeven times, until he came near to his brother. |
b Expoſing himſelf to the firſt and greateſt hazard for the ſecuri- ty of his Wives and Chiidren. : 4 And Eſau ran to meet him, and embraced him,and fell on his neck, and kifſed him, .and they wepr.
5 4ndheliftup his eyes, and ſaw the women, and the children, and ſaid, Whoare thoſe + with thee? and he ſaid, The children which God hath graciouſly given
thy ſervant. |
6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themſelves. | 7 And Leah alſo with her children came near, and
+ Heb. 70
thee.
bowed themſclves ; and after came Joſeph near, and | 4
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ſervant, and 1will lead on ſoftly, according Þ as the + 5