Genesis 28:13

_AND, BEHOLD, THE LORD STOOD ABOVE IT, AND SAID, I AM THE LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM THY FATHER, AND THE GOD OF ISAAC: THE LAND WHEREON THOU LIEST, TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT, AND TO THY SEED;_ The Lord stood ... That Jacob might be at no loss to know the purport of the vision, he heard the divine voice; and a direct address to himself, together with a renewal of the covenant with Abraham, and an assurance of personal protection, produced at once the most solemnizing and inspiriting effect on his mind. I AM THE LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM, ... The Divine Person who appeared repeatedly to the patriarchs expressly called himself the Lord х_ YAHWEH_ (H3068)] on two occasions only-namely, once in His earlier communications with Abraham (Genesis 15:7), and afterward on the occasion before us, which was apparently the commencement of his

13._I am the Lord God of Abraham_. This is the third point which, I said, was to be noticed: for mute visions are cold; therefore the word of the Lord is as the soul which quickens them. The figure, therefore, of the ladder was the inferior appendage of this promise; just as God illustrates and adorns his word by external symbols, that both greater clearness and authority may be added to it. Whence also we prove that sacraments in the Papacy are frivolous, because no voice is heard in them which may edify the soul. We may therefore observe, that whenever God manifested himself to the fathers, he also spoke, lest a mute vision should have held them in suspense. Under the name יהוה _Jehovah _God teaches that he is the only Creator of the world, that Jacob might not seek after other gods. But since his majesty is in itself incomprehensible, he accommodates himself to the capacity of his ser...

10-15 Jacob's conduct hitherto, as recorded, was not that of one who simply feared and trusted in God. But now in trouble, obliged to flee, he looked only to God to make him to dwell in safety, and he could lie down and sleep in the open air with his head upon a stone. Any true believer would be willing to take up with Jacob's pillow, provided he might have Jacob's vision. God's time to visit his people with his comforts, is, when they are most destitute of other comforts, and other comforters. Jacob saw a ladder which reached from earth to heaven, the angels going up and coming down, and God himself at the head of it. This represents, 1. The providence of God, by which there is a constant intercourse kept up between heaven and earth. This let Jacob know that he had both a good guide and a good guard. 2. The mediation of Christ. He is this ladder; the foot on earth in his human nature,...

Verse Genesis 28:13. _I AM THE LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM_] Here God confirms to him the blessing of Abraham, for which Isaac had prayed, Genesis 28:3-1....

- Jacob’s Journey to Haran 3. קהל _qâhāl_, “congregation.” 9. מחלת _māchălat_, Machalath, “sickness, or a harp.” 19. לוּז _lûz_, Luz, “almond.” The blessing of his sons was the last passage in the active life of Isaac, after which he retires from the scene. Jacob now becomes the leading figure in the sacred history. His spiritual character has yet come out to view. But even now we can discern the general distinction in the lives of the three patriarchs. Abraham’s is a life of authority and decision; Isaac’s, of submission and acquiescence; and Jacob’s, of trial and struggle. Genesis 28:1 Isaac has now become alive to the real destiny of Jacob. He therefore calls for

EXPOSITION GENESIS 28:10 AND JACOB WENT OUT FROM BEERSHEBA,—in obedience to his father's commandment to seek a wife (Genesis 28:2), but also in compliance with his mother's counsel to evade the wrath of Esau (Genesis 27:43; cf. Hosea 12:12. On Beersheba _vide _Genesis 21:31; Genesis 26:33—AND WENT TOWARDS HARAN—probably along the route traversed by Abraham's servant (cf....

AND BEHOLD, THE LORD STOOD ABOVE IT,.... Ordering, directing, and overruling all things in Providence, for the glory of his name and the good of his people; and may signify, as the ladder may be a figure of Christ, that Jehovah the Father, is above him, as man and Mediator, and makes himself known in and by him, and delivers out all his blessings and promises through him, both temporal and spiritual, and such as follow: AND SAID, I [AM] THE LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM THY FATHER, AND THE GOD OF ISAAC: their covenant God and Father in Christ, who had made promises unto them, and bestowed blessings upon them; and the same was and would continue to be the God of Jacob, which is strongly intimated: THE LAND WHEREON THOU LIEST, TO THEE WILL I GIVE IT, AND TO THY SEED; meaning not that small pittance of land only on which his body then lay, and which it covered, but all the land of which it was a pa...

CHAPTER 28 JACOB'S DEPARTURE TO PADAN-ARAM AND HIS VISION _ 1. Isaac sends Jacob away and gives his blessing (Genesis 28:1)_ 2. Esau's action (Genesis 28:6) 3. Jacob's vision and vow (Genesis 28:10) We enter with this upon the interesting wanderings of the third patriarch, Jacob. God was pleased to reveal Himself to the three illustrious men, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, as He did not before. In Exodus 3:4 Jehovah reveals Himself to Moses and Jehovah calls Himself “the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. This is My name forever.” In Abraham, as we have seen, we have the type of the Father; in

YAHWEH REVEALS HIMSELF TO JACOB AT BETHEL. This section is taken from J and E. To E Genesis 28:11 f., Genesis 28:17 f., Genesis 28:20_ a_, Genesis 28:22 may be assigned, to J Genesis 28:10; Genesis 28:13, and perhaps Genesis 28:19_ a_. This may be an insertion, so perhaps Genesis 2

II. THE LORD OF THE COVENANT. 13. AND, BEHOLD, THE LORD STOOD ABOVE IT. Above the top of the ladder, the place where it ended, stood Jehovah, the covenant God of Israel, superintending all this providential scheme of grace. He is the fountain from whence flows all mercy, the height that the ladder reaches to. I AM THE LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM. Jacob has received the birthright and is the heir of the spiritual and temporal blessings that had been promised to Abraham. To Abraham God had revealed himself as Jehovah, the covenant God of the Hebrew race; thus again he revealed himself to Isaac and repeated to him the promises first made to Abraham; now he reveals himself to Jacob as the Jehovah God, and makes to him the same promises that had been made to his father and grandfather. As he is the lineal successor of Abraham God who made the covenant with Abraham recorded in...