_AND THE LORD VISITED SARAH AS HE HAD SAID, AND THE LORD DID UNTO SARAH AS HE HAD SPOKEN._ The Lord visited Sarah. The phrase, "the Lord visited," when used in Scripture with reference to a person or a people, indicates some signal token of favour-some remarkable blessing (cf. Exodus 3:16; 1 Samuel... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR SARAH CONCEIVED, AND BARE ABRAHAM A SON IN HIS OLD AGE, AT THE SET TIME OF WHICH GOD HAD SPOKEN TO HIM._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABRAHAM CALLED THE NAME OF HIS SON THAT WAS BORN UNTO HIM, WHOM SARAH BARE TO HIM, ISAAC._ Abraham called ... circumcised. God was acknowledged in the name which, by divine command, was given for a memorial (cf. Genesis 17:19), and also in the dedication of the child, by administering the seal... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABRAHAM WAS AN HUNDRED YEARS OLD, WHEN HIS SON ISAAC WAS BORN UNTO HIM._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SARAH SAID, GOD HATH MADE ME TO LAUGH, SO THAT ALL THAT HEAR WILL LAUGH WITH ME._ God hath made me to laugh - literally, God hath prepared laughter (joy) for me; i:e., as Havernick paraphrases it, 'That at which I formerly indulged a sceptical laugh has now been so turned by God as to become t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHE SAID, WHO WOULD HAVE SAID UNTO ABRAHAM, THAT SARAH SHOULD HAVE GIVEN CHILDREN SUCK? FOR I HAVE BORN HIM A SON IN HIS OLD AGE._ Who would have said unto Abraham - [Hebrew, _ MILEEL_ (H4448)] This is a poetical word; and this effusion of Sarah is quoted by Lowth ('Prelect.,' 4:) as being in... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE CHILD GREW, AND WAS WEANED: AND ABRAHAM MADE A GREAT FEAST THE SAME DAY THAT ISAAC WAS WEANED._ The child grew, ... Children are suckled longer in the East than in Europe-boys usually for two or three years; in some cases even for four or five (1 Samuel 1:22-28; 2 Chronicles 31:16: cf. 2Ma... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SARAH SAW THE SON OF HAGAR THE EGYPTIAN, WHICH SHE HAD BORN UNTO ABRAHAM, MOCKING._ Sarah saw the son of Hagar ... mocking, [Septuagint, paizonta meta Isaak] - playing with Isaac, though not in a sportive humour for the child's amusement. Ishmael was then about seventeen years of age, fully aw... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE SHE SAID UNTO ABRAHAM, CAST OUT THIS BONDWOMAN AND HER SON: FOR THE SON OF THIS BONDWOMAN SHALL NOT BE HEIR WITH MY SON, EVEN WITH ISAAC._ CAST OUT THIS BOND-WOMAN - х_ 'AAMAAH_ (H519), maid-servant; Greek, _ PAIDISKEE_ (G3814) (Galatians 4:22).] The term "bond-woman" or 'slave' refers to... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE THING WAS VERY GRIEVOUS IN ABRAHAM'S SIGHT BECAUSE OF HIS SON._ The thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son. The parental feelings must have been sadly harrowed by the prospect of ejecting Ishmael. He was asked not merely to expatriate him from the domestic circle, bu... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GOD SAID UNTO ABRAHAM, LET IT NOT BE GRIEVOUS IN THY SIGHT BECAUSE OF THE LAD, AND BECAUSE OF THY BONDWOMAN; IN ALL THAT SARAH HATH SAID UNTO THEE, HEARKEN UNTO HER VOICE; FOR IN ISAAC SHALL THY SEED BE CALLED._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALSO OF THE SON OF THE BONDWOMAN WILL I MAKE A NATION, BECAUSE HE IS THY SEED._ Also of the son of the bond-woman wlll I make a nation. `What great events from small beginnings rise!' What could be apparently more insignificant than this family brawl-the outbreak of female jealousy in the te... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABRAHAM ROSE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING, AND TOOK BREAD, AND A BOTTLE OF WATER, AND GAVE IT UNTO HAGAR, PUTTING IT ON HER SHOULDER, AND THE CHILD, AND SENT HER AWAY: AND SHE DEPARTED, AND WANDERED IN THE WILDERNESS OF BEERSHEBA._ Abraham rose up early, ... - early, that the wanderers might reach... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE WATER WAS SPENT IN THE BOTTLE, AND SHE CAST THE CHILD UNDER ONE OF THE SHRUBS._ The water, ... Ishmael sank exhausted from fatigue and thirst: his mother laid his head under one of the bushes-a dwarfish acacia, or a tamarisk-to smell the damp, while she herself, unable to witness his distr... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SHE WENT, AND SAT HER DOWN OVER AGAINST HIM A GOOD WAY OFF, AS IT WERE A BOWSHOT: FOR SHE SAID, LET ME NOT SEE THE DEATH OF THE CHILD. AND SHE SAT OVER AGAINST HIM, AND LIFT UP HER VOICE, AND WEPT._ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GOD HEARD THE VOICE OF THE LAD; AND THE ANGEL OF GOD CALLED TO HAGAR OUT OF HEAVEN, AND SAID UNTO HER, WHAT AILETH THEE, HAGAR? FEAR NOT; FOR GOD HATH HEARD THE VOICE OF THE LAD WHERE HE IS._ God heard ... the angel of God called. The easy interchange of these names of the same Being is deserv... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND GOD WAS WITH THE LAD; AND HE GREW, AND DWELT IN THE WILDERNESS, AND BECAME AN ARCHER._ He grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. Maurer renders it, 'he dwelt in the wilderness, and was growing up an archer' - i:e., acquiring greater skill and expertness in archery. His poster... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE DWELT IN THE WILDERNESS OF PARAN: AND HIS MOTHER TOOK HIM A WIFE OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT._ Paran. Paran, which was further south than the wilderness of Beer-sheba, corresponded generally to the desert now called Et-Tih, bounded on the north by the southern mountains of Canaan, on the west... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS AT THAT TIME, THAT ABIMELECH AND PHICHOL THE CHIEF CAPTAIN OF HIS HOST SPAKE UNTO ABRAHAM, SAYING, GOD IS WITH THEE IN ALL THAT THOU DOEST:_ Abimelech and Phichol. Here is a proof of the promise (Genesis 12:2) being fulfilled, in a native prince wishing to form a solemn league... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THEREFORE SWEAR UNTO ME HERE BY GOD THAT THOU WILT NOT DEAL FALSELY WITH ME, NOR WITH MY SON, NOR WITH MY SON'S SON: BUT ACCORDING TO THE KINDNESS THAT I HAVE DONE UNTO THEE, THOU SHALT DO UNTO ME, AND TO THE LAND WHEREIN THOU HAST SOJOURNED._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABRAHAM REPROVED ABIMELECH BECAUSE OF A WELL OF WATER, WHICH ABIMELECH'S SERVANTS HAD VIOLENTLY TAKEN AWAY._ Abraham reproved ... because of a well. Wells were of great importance to a pastoral chief, and on the successful operation of sinking a new one, the owner was solemnly infeft in person... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABIMELECH SAID, I WOT NOT WHO HATH DONE THIS THING: NEITHER DIDST THOU TELL ME, NEITHER YET HEARD I OF IT, BUT TO DAY._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABRAHAM TOOK SHEEP AND OXEN, AND GAVE THEM UNTO ABIMELECH; AND BOTH OF THEM MADE A COVENANT._ Both of them made a covenant. The account of this treaty is very interesting, as it is the earliest instance of a national or social league on record, while at the same time the special form by which... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABRAHAM SET SEVEN EWE LAMBS OF THE FLOCK BY THEMSELVES._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, FOR THESE SEVEN EWE LAMBS SHALT THOU TAKE OF MY HAND, THAT THEY MAY BE A WITNESS UNTO ME, THAT I HAVE DIGGED THIS WELL._ These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand. Abimelech's acceptance of this specific present was an earnest or pledge of his acknowledgment that the well was t... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEREFORE HE CALLED THAT PLACE BEERSHEBA; BECAUSE THERE THEY SWARE BOTH OF THEM._ Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba - [Hebrew, Beer-shaba here, and Beer-sheba in Genesis 26:33. The name originated in one of two circumstances, either because, _ NISHBª`UW_ (H7650), "they sware both of them;... [ Continue Reading ]
_THUS THEY MADE A COVENANT AT BEERSHEBA: THEN ABIMELECH ROSE UP, AND PHICHOL THE CHIEF CAPTAIN OF HIS HOST, AND THEY RETURNED INTO THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES._ Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. A large town rose in later times on that spot, which is well known as the southern boundary point... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABRAHAM PLANTED A GROVE IN BEERSHEBA, AND CALLED THERE ON THE NAME OF THE LORD, THE EVERLASTING GOD._ Abraham planted a grove - [Hebrew, _ 'ESHEL_ (H815)]. The tarfa or tamarisk, used here collectively and without the article-a wood or grove of tamarisks. The Septuagint improperly has [aroura],... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ABRAHAM SOJOURNED IN THE PHILISTINES' LAND MANY DAYS._ Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days. Beer-sheba itself was not in the Philistine territory, but the wilderness-the great wide plain was a common-where the flocks of Abimelech and Abraham equally pastured. The patriarch, wh... [ Continue Reading ]