2 An horrid Inceft. ; for Concubines were a ſort of Wives. See Gen: 22: 24: and 25:1. f And doubtleſs ſadly reſented it, both in Reuben, as appears from Gen: 49: 4: 1 Chron: 5: I, 2: and 1n Bilhah whoſe Bed without queſtion he forſook upon ir, as afrerwards David did in the like caſe. * See 2 Sam: 16: 22: and 20:3. Yet here isno mentienof Jacob's reproof of it, nor any cenſure of Moſes added to it ; poſſibly to teach us, that we are not to approve of every fatt which is mentioned in Scripture without cenſure, and that the miſcarriages of Profeſlours of Religion are rather to be ſilently bewailed, than publickly reproached, leſt Religion ſhould ſuffer by it. g Which were heads of the twelve Tribes ; therefore his daughter Dinah is not here mentioned, becauſe ſhe was not the head of a Tribe.
23 The ſons of Leah : * Reuben Jacobs firſt-born, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Iffachar, and
Zebulun. we 24 The fons of Rachel : Joſeph and Benjamin. 25 And the ſons of Bilkah, Rachels handmaid : Dan
and Naphrtali. 26 And the ſons of Zilpah, Leahs handmaid, Gad
and Aſher. Theſe are the ſons of Jacob which were
born to him in Padan- Aram 6.
h All but B:njamin, who muſt in all reaſon be ſuppoſed to be excepted here, b=cauſc he is ſaid to be born elſewhere, above, werſe 16. Bur is an ulual Synecdoche, whereby thar is aſcribed to all in oroſs, which belongs to the greateſt part. See Gen: 15: 13: and 46: 15: Exod: 12: 40: Judges 20: 46: John 20: 24: 1 Cor: 15: 5.
27 4 And Jacob came unto Ifaac # his father unto * Mamre, unto the city of Arbah ( which is Hebron )
where Abraham and Iſaac ſojourned. | Sl
; Either with his Wives, and Children, and Eſtate, to dwell with him ; or rather in perſon to viſit his fick and dying Father ; for otherwiſe Jacob having been ten years near his Father, mo doubt he had oft viſited him, and carried his Wives, and Childrea rhither, though Scripture be ſilent in this particular : Bur they could nor live together becauſe of rhe greatrnels of their Eſtates, as it happened with others. See Gen: 13: 6: and 36: 7.
28 And the days of Iſaac were an hundred and
fourſcore years. | 29 And Ifaac gave up the ghoſt, and died, and was *Chap:15: * gathered unto his people k, being old and fuli of days:
15: and and his ſons Eſau and Jacob buried t im. 25: $8: k Either ro the ſociety of the dead, or to the Congregation of the juft. See Ger: 15: 15: and 25: 8.
CHAP XXXVT.
Eſaw's wives and children born in Canaan, 1—5. They remove from Jacob f0 Seir ; the reaſon, 6 —=8. His poſterity, 9 —— 19. 4s alſo that of Seir the Horite, 20. Among whom is Ana, who firſt found out mules in the wilderneſs. 24. Hy children, 25 =—— 3o. 2 catalogue of kings and princes in Edom, 31 —43.
N OW theſe are the generations of Eſau EFdom.
a They are here mentioned partly to fhew the effeſt ofhis Father's Bleſſing, Chap: 27: 39: partly that the 1/raelites might be admoniſhed to trear the Edomzites like Brethren, and nor to invade their Land. See Der. 23. 7.
2 Eſau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan :
*Verſ: 25: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and *Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, the "daughter of Zibeon the Hivite 6. |
b If this account be compared with that Gen: 26: 34: we ſhall find ſome difficulties, which yer admit of an eaſy reconciliation, if theſe things be conſidered. 1. That it is very utual and confeſſed by all, thar the ſame perſons are off called by tfeveral names. 2. Thar the names of ſome perſons are in Scripture-given to others, bec:uſe of a grear reſemblance between them. Upon which account the Parents of the Iſraelites are called Amorites and Hittites, Ezek: 16: 3: and the Governours of Jeruſalem are called the Rulers of Sodom and Gomorrah, Iſs: 1: 10: and John the Baptiſt is called Eliar, Matth. 17: 12. 3 That the ſame men are oft-times denominated from leveral Countries, as Chriſt is noted to have a threefold Countrey in Scripture ; Bethlehem
- by hisBirth ; Nazareth by his Education ; and Capernaum by bis much \eſtdence and Preaching there. 4. That the tame names are ſome- times common to Men and Wemen. 5. That perſons are called the Children, nor only of their immediate Parents, but of their Grand- Parents, and of thoſe Who adopted them. Theie things premited, the ſeeming contradiQtiens objetted by Infidels, do vaniſh. She who was 'preperly called Judith; Chap. 26: is here cailea Aholibamah, a name which ſeems to be given her either by 1ſaac, or by Moſes, from her ſettledneſs in her Idolatrous courſes. Anu Adeh was aito called Baſhemath ; and Maþalath, Iſbmaels daughter; was called Baſbemath, Chap. 26. either becauſe in her Principles and Manners ſhe relembled Eax's other Wife ſo called, or ro thzw that Jbmae!'s Mrriage to a third Wife was no leſs opprobrious ro him, aud difpicaiing co vs Parents than the former; aha Man, and the Son of Zibeon, as
*Chap:46: 8: Exod: I+ 3,
*Chap: 13: 18:and 23: 23
s, Who is
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Chap. XXXVI, appears frem Y-rſe 24. called here an Hivite, is called Beeri the Hittite, Chap. 26. either becauſe thoſe two People were mixed together in Habitation and by Marriage, or becauſe the one People were larger than the other, and comprehended under their name, or becauſe he was an Hivite by birth, an Hittite by habitation or incorporatich with them. Hence alſo we may learn how Abolibamah here comes ro be the Daughter borh of Anak, and of Zib:ovn ; the ene being either the Natural or Proper Father, and the orher either the Grand-
father, or Father by Adoption. 2 And * Bajſhemath, Iſhmae!'s daughter, fiſter of
Nebajoth.
4 And * Adah bare to Eſau, Eliphaz c : and Baſhe- math bare Reuel 4. |
c The progenitor of that Eliphaz, Job 2. 11. d The father of Jethro. See Exod. 2. 18: Numb. 10. 29.
5 And Aholibamah bare Jeuſh, and Jaalam, and Korah : theſe are the ſons of Eſau e, which were born
unto him in the land of Canaan. e He had alſo Daughters, Yerſe 6. though their names be not here
mentioned. 6 And Eſau took his wives, and his ſons, and his
daughters, and all the + perſons of his houſe, and his + Hebz Cattel, and all his beafts, and all his ſubſtance which he Jonls. had got in the land of Canaan : and went f into the