創世記 32:9-11 JCB

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 32:1-23

Mahanaim, or preparing for Esau. I. THE ANGELIC APPARITION . 1. The time when it occurred . 2. The impression which it made. Whether completely surrounding him, or divided into two companies, one on either side of him, Jacob's angelic visitors, from their number, their orderly array, their military dispositions, assumed the appearance of a heavenly army lying encamped over against His own; and the sight of the two companies immediately suggested the ejaculation, "This is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 32:9-12

And Jacob said ,—the combined beauty and power, humility and boldness, simplicity and sublimity, brevity and comprehensiveness of this prayer, of which Kalisch somewhat hypercritically complains that it ought to have been offered before resorting to the preceding precautions, has been universally recognized— O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord— Jacob's invocation is addressed not to Deity in general, but to the living personal Elohim who had taken his fathers... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 32:9-12

Jacob's prayer. 1. It was the prayer of humility . 2. Of faith— faith in a covenant God, faith in him who had already revealed himself, faith in promises made to the individual as well as to God's people generally, faith founded on experience of the past, faith which has been mingled with obedience, and therefore lays hold of Divine righteousness. He has commanded me to return; I am in the way of his commandments. Faith in the great purpose of God and his kingdom: " I will... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 32:1-32

- Jacob Wrestles in Prayer3. מחנים machănāyı̂m, Machanaim, “two camps.”22. יבק yaboq, Jabboq; related: בקק bāqaq “gush or gurgle out” or אבק 'ābaq in niphal, “wrestle.” Now Wady Zurka.29. ישׂראל yı̂śrā'ēl, Jisrael, “prince of God.”31. פניאל penı̂y'ēl = פנוּאל penû'ēl, Peniel, Penuel, “face of God.”After twenty years spent in Aram, Jacob now returns to Kenann. As his departure was marked by a great moment in his spiritual life, so he is now approaching to a crisis in his life of no... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 32:9

Genesis 32:9. He has recourse to God in his distress by prayer, the only effectual means of obtaining relief in trouble. And surely a finer model of genuine prayer can hardly be met with or imagined. It was evidently dictated by the feelings of his heart in this trying season. He addressed himself to God as the God of his fathers, not presuming to call him his own God, because of the sense he had of his unworthiness. O God of my father Abraham, and father Isaac This he could better... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 32:10

Genesis 32:10. I am not worthy It is a surprising plea. One would think he should have pleaded that what was now in danger was his own against all the world, and that he had earned it dear enough; no, he pleads, Lord, I am not worthy of it. Of the least of all thy mercies Much less am I worthy of so great a favour as this I am now suing for. For with my staff I passed over this Jordan Poor and desolate, like a forlorn and despised pilgrim; having no guides, no companions, no... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 32:11-12

Genesis 32:11-12 . Deliver me from my brother Esau, for I fear him The fear that quickens prayer is itself pleadable. It was not a robber, but a murderer that he was afraid of: nor was it his own life only that lay at stake, but the mothers’, and the children’s. Thou saidst, I will surely do thee good God’s promises, as they are the surest guide of our desires in prayer, and furnish us with the best petitions; so they are the firmest ground of our hopes, and furnish us with the best... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 32:1-32

Preparing to meet Esau (32:1-32)During the twenty years that Jacob had been in Mesopotamia, Esau had established his household in territory to the south near the Dead Sea. Jacob knew that if he was to live in peace in Canaan, he would first have to put things right with Esau. With much fear and anxiety he sent news to Esau that he was coming to meet him (32:1-8).Jacob had by now learnt a humility before God that was lacking the previous time he met Esau. He thanked God for his remarkable... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 32:9

Jacob's first prayer acknowledges both Elohim and Jehovah. saidst. Compare Genesis 32:12 with Genesis 31:13 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 32:10

I am not worthy. Hebrew I have proved unworthy. Figure of speech Heterosis (of Tense), App-6 . = I have been and am unworthy. mercies. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause). First occurance of plural my staff. Having nothing and deserving nothing but chastisement. Hence, the God who met him there (the God of Bethel) is "the God of Jacob", and is "the God of all grace" (1 Peter 5:10 ): compare Psalms 146:5 . read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 32:1-23

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 32:9-12

The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 32:9-12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 32:1-32

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 32:9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 32:10

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 32:11-12

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 32:1-32

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 32:9

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 32:10

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