- within doors, as the word ſignifies.
' Phraſe is uſed, Deut: 4: 27. and 33:6: oppolite to which are men
it be paſſed over in ſilence, as many other things are. See on Gen: 33 14+ , 0h
29. And all their wealth, and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and ſpoiled even all that was in the houſe c.
c Either in the Prince's Houſe, or in their ſeveral Houſes ; or
20 And Jacob faid to Simeon and Levi, * Ye have troubied me 4, * to make me to ſtink e among the in- habicants of the land, amongſt the Canaanites, and the Perizzites : and I being few in number f, they ſhali gather themſelves together againſt me, and ſlay me 7}, and1I ſhall be deſtroyed, I, and my houſe.
d You have not only diſcompoſed my Mind, bur perplexed my Afairs, and brought me into ſuch rroubles and dangers, as I am never likely to eſcape. e You have made me odious to them, who will imputethis perfidious and bloody fa& to my contrivance. f Heb. Men of Namber, 1. e' few. ; for ſuch can eaſily be numbred. So this
without number,2 Chron: 12: 3. FHe could expe& no other in humane reaſon, and they were hindred from ſo doing only by the hand of The great God =P; them with terrour Gen: 35. 5. ©
d
5 31 And they ſaid, Should he deal with our fiſter as
with an harlot g ? ;
2 Shal we expreſs no more reſentment of this abominable abuſe of our Siſter, than if ſhe had been ſome common Harlot, whoſe abuſe no Man either regardeth or revengeth ? Thus they excuſe one fault by commiting another, and defend themſelves by accu-
ſentations or Enſigns of theirTdols engraven upon them. See 5udges 8: 24. 7 Afffter he had melted or broken them, which ſeems p: 04a. ble from parallel inſtances, as Exod: 32: 22. 2 Kings 18: 4, k Under a certain Oak, though not known to his Family which it was. He chuſe that place, either as moſt proper to put Monnments of Ido« latry under thoſe Trees which were ſo much, and fo generally abuſed to Idelatry, as Oaks eſpecially were, 1/a: 1: 29: or as the ſafeſt place, where they were likely ro remain longeſt hid, becauſe the Heathen had a Veneration for Oaks, and therefore would not cut them down, nor dig them up, nor doe any thing which had a tendency that way. |
} was upon the cities that were round about them, and 16:and 34 they did not purſue after the ſons of Jacob. a4. Donn F ( 7.2.) A great terrour ſent from God, as Exod: 23: 27. Jof: 2. Tof: OY 9, 11. 2 Chron: 14: 14: and 17: 10. So we read of a ſleep of God, 19 Leak
1 Sam: 26: 12. Nothing leſs could have ſecured Jacob, conſidering © the great Number, Power, and Rage of his Enemies. © 6 1 So Jacob came to Luz, which 5s in the land of
Canaan ms, (that js Beth-cl) he and all the people that were With him.
2 Properly ſo called, or where the dwelt : Thus it is diſtinguiſhed from another Luz, Juag: 1. 26.
7 And he huilt there an altar, and * called the * Chap: place } En-beth-el », becauſe there God appeared unto 2:19.
him, when he fled from the face of his brother. the Gee » (7. e. ) He confirmed the name which he had formerly given Bethel.
to the place.
8 But Deborah Rebekahs nurſe o died, and ſhe was
Canaanites properly ſo called
5 And they journeyed 2: and * the terrour of God *Exod: r;
Chap. XXxy. |
* Ch 49: « s Co
*Cha 8: Ez To 2,
ſivg their Father of ſtupidity, and inſenſibleneſs of ſo great an in- dignity and injury.
CH AP. XXXV God commands Jacob to dwell at Berhel, and build an altar there, 1. He
buried beneath Beth-el under an oak : and the name of 2+ was called } Allon-bachurh p. + That is o Who came with Rebekah into Canaan, Gen: 24: 59. and pro- the oak of bably tarried with her whileſt the lived, and after her death, as it weeping. commands his family to purge themſelves from Idols, and go to Bethel, 2. ſeems, and upon Jacob's deſire, after his return from Haron. came they obey, 3. He and they go thither ; none purſuing them ; the reaſon | 1nto his Family ;'where,being a perſon of great prudence and piety, thereof, 5, 6. There he builds an altar. 7. The death and burial. of ' her preſence and advice was very uſeful in his numerous and divi- Rebekah's nurſe, 8. God appears to Jacob, confirms his name of Iſrael, | ded Family. p From the great lamentation which they made there renewes the promiſes, g---13. For which he ſ«ts up a pillar, pours oyl | for the loſs of a perſon of ſuch ſingular worth. thereon, and calls the place Bethel, 14, 15. Going thence Rachel dies in | 9 T And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he labour of Benjamin, and is buried there, 16--==2e, Reuben commits inceſt | came out of Padan- Aram, and bleſſed him. Io And God faid unto him, Thy name is Jacob *
in his father's houſe, 22. Jacob's ſons _—_ A z--==-26. Jacob wiſits his father Iſaac, 27. His age, death, and buriat. 28, 29. | n ; thy name hall not be c * Chap: A N D God ſaid unto Jacob s, Ariſe, go up to Beth- | FR be thy _ bs ; —_——— -=_ = acl q2zal? A. el, and dwell there, and make there an altar unto} , x 96 no repent &j adias ade Þ nes os <-oog _ God * that appeared unto thee, * when thou fleddeſt I do again confirm it ; and as then thou didſt jews over thy from the face of Eſau thy brother 6. brother Eſau, ſo now thou ſhalt prevail over thoſe of whom thou a This was a word inſeaſon to comfort his diſquieted Mind,and art afraid. X : convey him to a ſafer place. b Underſtand, and pay thy Vows 11: And God ſaid unto him, * T am God Almighty: *Chap: 17: there _ the time - thy —_ _ oe = paid s, whether be fruitful ard multiply : * a nation, and a ay e207: it was Jacob's errour to forget and negleCt his former Vows an . 4 be Promiſes - or whether he eiced for a fit time, or an admonition - ax reiad ſhall be of thee, and kings (ball come our 6 —_ from God concerning the ſeaſon of paying them. {© thy loins s. | WI 2 Then Jacob faid unto his houjhold, and to all that |, (; Lage = As _— power, equal to ſo many Nations. were with him, Put away the * ſtrange gods c that are ;(,," <6 — Kone 8: 59: as yon ; as this phraſe is taken alſo in among you 4,and be clean e,8 change your garmentsf;' 12 And the land * which I gave Abraham and Iſaac, * Chap.
c The Iaols, which are ſo called here, and Deut: 31: 16. and 32: . ———_ A ; 12. Jof: 24: 20. becauſe they were the Gods of ſtrange and foreign rata : 61VE It, and to thy ſeed after thee will i _ 4 and