Genesis 33:19-20 NIV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Genesis 33:1-20

- Jacob and Esau Meet17. סכת sûkkôth, Sukkoth, “booths,” consisting of poles forming a roof covered with branches, leaves, or grass.19. חמור chămôr Chamor, “ass, red, heap.” קשׂיטה qeśı̂yṭâh Qesitah, weighed or measured. Ἀμνὸς Amnos, Septuagint and OnkelosJacob has a friendly interview with Esau, and re-+enters Kenaan.Genesis 33:1-3Jacob, upon seeing Esau approach with his four hundred men, advances with circumspection and lowly obeisance. He divided his family, arranged them according... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 33:20

Genesis 33:20. He erected there an altar 1st, In thankfulness to God, for the good hand of his providence over him. 2d, That he might keep up religion and the worship of God in his family. He dedicated this altar to the honour of El-elohe-Israel, God the God of Israel: to the honour of God in general, the only living and true God, the best of Beings, the first of causes: and to the honour of the God of Israel, as a God in covenant with him. God had lately called him by the name of ... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Genesis 33:18-20

Click image for full-size versionBack in Canaan (33:18-35:15)From Succoth Jacob later moved with his household across the Jordan River into Canaan itself and settled in Shechem. By buying a piece of land, he gained permanent possession of part of the land God had promised to him and his descendants (18-20; cf. 23:1-20; 28:1-5).When the son of a local headman raped Jacob’s daughter Dinah, the headman suggested to Jacob that his son marry Dinah, and that Jacob’s sons marry the local Canaanite... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 33:19

Hamor. Probably a title, like Abimelech and Pharaoh. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 33:20

El-elohe-Israel - "GOD-the God-of-Israel", but not the place for this altar. Compare Genesis 35:1 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 33:18-20

"And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram; and he encamped before the city. And he bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of money. And he erected there an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel."The last verses of the preceding paragraph recounted Jacob's stopping in Succoth (meaning booths), and so named by Jacob after the shelters... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 33:19

Genesis 33:19. An hundred pieces of money— Or, lambs. There was a coin in those days, which was afterwards used among the Jews, called by the name of its print, which was a lamb. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 33:20

Genesis 33:20. He erected there an altar— At the same place where Abraham had built his first altar, ch. Genesis 12:7. Abraham dedicated his, To Jehovah appearing to him; Jacob his, To God, the God of Israel, which was the new name that God had given him. The place was at or near Shechem; so that the woman of Samaria might well say, as she did to our Saviour, that their Fathers worshipped God IN THAT mount. Shechem seems to have been one of the oldest cities in all Canaan. This must be the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Genesis 33:19

19. an hundred pieces of money—literally, "lambs"; probably a coin with the figure of a lamb on it. read more