Genesis 28:5 ASV

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 28:1-22

Genesis 28:0 I. If there be little poetic or romantic charm in the history of Isaac, what a wealth of it there is in that of Jacob! A double deceit, followed by banishment from his country; this expulsion relieved and brightened, first by a glorious vision and then by unexampled prosperity in the strange land whither he had gone; long toils, travails, disappointments, and quarrels; and, at last, light at eventime in Egypt, and the spirit of prophecy resting upon his soul. Jacob's love for... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 28:1-22

Chapter 28So Isaac called Jacob, and he blessed him, and he charged him, and he said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. Arise, and go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from there of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother ( Genesis 28:1-2 ).Now evidently, they were able to keep some kind of a communication perhaps by the caravans that would travel. You'd give a letter and it will be carried and you'd-and they would... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 28:1-22

Genesis 28:1. Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. A heart-rending business to be forced away from his father’s house in the 58th year of his age. He went not with a train of ten camels, as were sent to his mother when brought to Isaac, but as a pilgrim with his staff in his hand to learn to trust in the Lord. Isaac, in the charge respecting Jacob’s marriage, kept his eye constantly on the promises, and in this he is an example to believers, for the Lord is ever mindful of his faithful word.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 28:1-5

Genesis 28:1-5And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram.The beginning of Jacob’s pilgrimageI. THE CAUSES WHICH LED HIM. TO UNDERTAKE HIS PILGRIMAGE. 1. His brother’s anger. 2. His mother’s counsel. II. THE DIVINE PROVISIONS FOR HIS PILGRIMAGE. 1. The peculiar blessing of the chosen seed. 2. The ministry of man in conveying this blessing. (T. H. Leale.)Lessons1. Good fathers disdain not the wise and gracious advice of mothers for their children’s good. 2. Good men may change their... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 28:5

Gen 28:5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother. Ver. 5. Isaac sent away Jacob. ] With his staff only, Gen 32:10 and to "serve for a wife". Hos 12:12 It was otherwise, when a wife was provided for Isaac. But Jacob went as privately as he could; "he fled into Syria," probably, that his brother Esau might not know of his journey, and wait him a shrewd turn by the way. Theodoret saith, it was... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 28:5

sent away Jacob: Whoever observes Jacob's life, after he had surreptitiously obtained his father's blessing, will perceive that he enjoyed very little worldly felicity. His brother purposed to murder him, to avoid which he was forced to flee from his father's house; his uncle Laban deceived him, as he had deceived his father, and treated him with great rigour; after a servitude of 21 years, he was obliged to leave him in a clandestine manner, not without danger of being brought back, or... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Genesis 28:5

And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.Rebekah is here called Jacob's and Esau's mother - Jacob is named first, not only because he had always been his mother's darling, but because he was now made his father's heir, and Esau was postponed. read more