Genesis 15

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:3

Genesis 15:3. Behold, to me thou hast given no seed Not only no son, but no seed. If he had had a daughter, from her the promised Messias might have come, who was to be the seed of the woman; but he had neither son nor daughter. read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:5

Genesis 15:5. And he brought him forth It seems, early in the morning; and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars: so shall thy seed be 1st, So innumerable, for so the stars seem to a common eye. Abram feared he should have no child at all, but God tells him his descendants should be so many as not to be numbered. 2d, So illustrious, as the stars of heaven for splendour; for to “them pertained the glory,” Romans 9:4. Abram’s seed according to the flesh were like the “dust of... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:6

Genesis 15:6. And he believed in the Lord That is, believed the truth of that promise which God had now made him, resting upon the power and faithfulness of him that made it: see how the apostle magnifies this faith of Abram, and makes it a standing example; Romans 4:19-21, “He was not weak in faith; he staggered not at the promise:” he was “strong in faith; he was fully persuaded.” The Lord work such a faith in every one of us! And he counted it to him for righteousness That is, upon the... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:7

Genesis 15:7. I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees Thence God brought him by an effectual call; brought him by a gracious violence; snatched him as a brand out of the burning. Observe how God speaks of it as that which he gloried in. I am the Lord that brought thee out He glories in it as an act both of power and grace. To give thee this land to inherit it Not only to possess it, but to possess it as an inheritance, which is the surest title. The providence of God... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:8

Genesis 15:8. Whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? This inquiry did not proceed from distrust of God’s power or promise, but he desired a token for the strengthening of his own faith, and for the ratifying of the promise to his posterity, that they also might believe it. read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:9

Genesis 15:9. Take me a heifer Perhaps Abram expected some sign from heaven, but God gives him a sign upon a sacrifice. Those that would receive the assurances of God’s favour, must attend instituted ordinances, and expect to meet with God in them. read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:12

Genesis 15:12. And when the sun was going down About the time of the evening oblation; for, he abode by them, praying and waiting till toward evening; a deep sleep fell upon Abram Not a common sloop through weariness or carelessness, but a divine ecstasy, that, being wholly taken off from things sensible, he might be wholly taken up with the contemplation of things spiritual. And lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him This was designed to strike an awe upon the spirit of... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:13

Genesis 15:13. Thy seed shall be strangers So they were in Canaan first, Psalms 105:12, and afterward in Egypt: before they were lords of their own land, they were strangers in a strange land. The inconveniences of an unsettled state make a happy settlement the more welcome. Thus the heirs of heaven are first strangers on earth. And they shall serve them So they did the Egyptians, Exodus 1:13. See how that which was the doom of the Canaanites, Genesis 9:25, proves the distress of Abram’s... read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:14

Genesis 15:14. That nation whom they shall serve, even the Egyptians, will I judge This points at the plagues of Egypt, by which God not only constrained the Egyptians to release Israel, but punished them for all the hardships they had put upon them. The punishing of persecutors is the judging of them; it is a righteous thing with God, and a particular act of justice, to “recompense tribulation to those that trouble” his people. read more

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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:15

Genesis 15:15. Thou shalt go to thy fathers At death we go to our fathers, to all our fathers that are gone before us to the state of the dead, to our godly fathers that are gone before us to the state of the blessed. The former helps to take off the terror of death, the latter puts comfort into it. Thou shalt be buried in a good old age Perhaps mention is made of his burial here, where the land of Canaan is promised him, because a burying-place was the first possession he had in... read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:5

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:6

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:8

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:12

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:13

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:14

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 15:15

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