Meave the promiſed land of Canaan, and go into the -idolatrous and 1mpious land of Egypt ; and for his prote&tion and bleſſing, as well in his journey as in Egypt. 6 Whom 1ſac honoured and ſerved, and who had conttantly proteSed, and provided for 1aac,and confirmed his Covenant with him. He mentions {ſazc rather than 4braham, partly for 1ſaac's honour, to ſhew that though 1c was much inte-
Abraham's Ged, and therefore woul:i be his God alfo, notwith« Tanding his unworthineſs ; and partly forhis own comfort,becauſe Iaac was Jacob's immediat Parent, and had transferred the Bleſſing of the Covenant from Eſau to Faceb, and the validity of that Tran{la« tion depended upon 7/azc's intereſt in God.
2 And God ſpake unto Iſrael in the viſions of the * night c, and ſaid, Jacob, Jacobd : And he ſaid, Here -
am l, |
c ( i: e.) In that way or manner of Viſions which God afordeth ro Men by night, and in their fleep. See Gen: 20: 3: Job 33: 15, ; 16: Matth: 1: 20: and 2: 13, 19: Affs 16: 9g: and 18: 9, &c. E 4 He douv!es the name both in token of his friendſhip and familia« '1ty with him, and to raiſe Jacob's attention. Compare Gene 22: 11:
I Sam: 3: 10. : faid, Iam God, the God of thy father ;
} And he fzar not e to go down into Egypt : for I will there
make of thee a great nation»
e And here were many caules of fear, leſt he ſkould do evil in forſaking the promiſed and bleſſed iand, and going to a place which had been incommodions to his Granefather, Gen. 12. 15.and' forbidden to his Father, Gen. 26. 2. leſt he ſhould expoſe his Chil- dren to manifold perils, as of being infeted with the vices, and particularly the Idolatiy which reigned there above allother Couns tries, and of being invengled by the pleaſantneſs and eminent fruit- fulneſs of that So1l, to give up themſelves to all manner of plea» {ures, and to ſettle themſelves there, and give over all thoughts of rerurning to Cana; and of being brought into that grievous bondage and afflition which was ſpoken of Gen. 15. 13. and leſt ſome miſchief thon!d befal him or his in ſo long and dangerous a journey.
4 1 will go down with thee into Egypt, and I will alſo ſurely bring thee up againf « and Joſeph ſball pur his hand upon thine eyes g.
F Though notin thy perſon, yet in thy body, Gen. 47. 29, 30, and 50.5, 13. and in thy pofterity, which are a part of thy ſelf, or thy ſelf multiplied, g Shall cloſe thy eyes; which office was uſu» ally performed by the neareſt and-deareſt Relations of the Cying party among the Jews, Greeks, and Romans. Hereby Jacob is affuret that ke ſhould dic in peace, and that Joſeph both now was alive, and ſhould ſurvive his Father. . |
5 And * Facob rote up from Beerſheba : and the » gg, , ſons of iſraci carried. Facob their father, and their little j5, © ones, and tneir wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had fent ro carry him. |
6 And they took their cattel, and their goods. which they had gotten in the land of Canaan4, and came into Egypt, * Jacob, andall his ſeed with him, h ;
þ And in Meſopotramiz. But Canazn only is here mentioned, be-',, Pl. cauſe here they gor the far greateſt part of them, which by a Sy» 10g, 23. necdoche 15 pur tor the whote. ; : Ua. 52.4s 7 His fogs, and his fons ſons wich him, his daugh-
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4 SS » + WE:
* Exod: 1: x7:and 6:
14. Numb:26: 8: and r Chr. 5. 1. * Numb, 26» 5.
*Fxod.
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p mM.
* 1Chron. þ 2.3. and 4-21 Chap. 38.
Q 1Chron. | 2- 5.
8
ſx Chron.
oF * T. *F Or, P:«- ah--- A-
:
F Arod. '* I Chron. 7. 30. Chap. 30. 10. Chap. 29. 24. * Chap. 41. 50. C Or, ince. x1Chron. vr. 6- and B. 7. Numb. 6. 38,39. 1ranmle
\ Shu- Ea.
ham. xChron, os I2. Shuham. ſumb. 26. * 1Chron. ; I'3.,
4 ale tat "xo 3 Y/ wn
rae} which came into Egypt &, Jacob and his ſons:
- as his
GT
* z, ani his ſons daughters, andall his ſced brought |
53th Liminto Egypt. ; pe _— His Dag tne Dyveb, the Plural Number for the Singu-
« Gon: 21: 7: b: 26: 8: or Dinah and her Daugh- as verſe 23: Gen: 21: 7: Num . and 1
an : EE atdren are commonly called their Grandfather s Chilcren, or Sons or Daughters ; or his Daughters-in-law, his
) Wi e OT) _ & Lit * theſe are the names of the children of If-
euben, Jacobs firſt-born. | " This eras is both here and elſewhere deſcribed exatly
and particularly, as well to ſhew the faithfulneſs of God in the rakes Seed, and that in ſo ſhort a time, Tribes; which was of great importance, and neceſſury for the diſpoſal of the Kingdom and Prieſthood, and above all, for the diſcovery of the true Meſſias. Compare this following Catalogue with that Numb: 26: and 1 Chron: 6: and 7: and 8.
9 And the ſons of Reuben, Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. |
10 © * Andthe ſons of Simeon ; + Jemuel, and Fa- min, and Ohad 1, andF Fachin,and i Zohar,and Shaul the fon of a Canaanitiſh woman m. |
/ Who is not mentioned in thoſe parallel places, becauſe he was
then dead, and that without iſſue. » Which is here mentioned as a Brand upon him, and as an Intimation that the reſt of them, ex-
* cept Judah, marricd to Perſons of a better Race.
11 C 4ndthe ſons * of Levi, | Gerſhon, Kohath,
. and Merarl.
12 | And the ſons of * Fudah: Er, and Onan, and
- Shelah and Pharez, and Zerah : but Er, and Onan, di-
ed in the land of Canaan. », And the ſons of Pharez
were * Hezron, and Hamul o. | |
» And therefore are not contained in the following number, verſe 15. o Who, though they ſeem to have been born in Egypr,yet are here ſet down amongſt thoſe who came into Egypr, becauic they came tiither in their Father's Loyns, as Levi 15 ſaid zo pay rithes 1m Abraham, Heb: 7: 9. And the Children may as well be faid ro come thither in their Parents, as their Father Facob is ſaid to return from thence, werſe 4: in his Children. 06j. If this be the ſenſe, why thould
' theſe two be mentioned rather than the Grandchildren of the other
Brethren, who came into Egypt in the ſame manner ? Anſw. "This may be done either, 1. From ſome ſpecial Excellency or Eminen- cy in them above the reſt, as Hezron , was eminent for being the Progznitor of the Meſſiah, and Hamul might be ſo for ſome other cauſe though unknown to us. Or 2. Becauſe they were the firſt Grandchildren that were born in Egypr,, and it may be all that were born whilſt Jacob lived there, and therefore are not unfitly named
* wi and allotted to him, as Joſeph's tro eldeit Sons, Ephraim - wo 5 ee F h were by Jacob appropriated to himſelf, and reckoned