John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 35:10
And God said unto him, thy name is Jacob ,.... Which his parents gave him at his birth, and by, which he had been always called: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name ; not Jacob only, as Aben Ezra and Ben Melech interpret it, but Israel also, and that more commonly and frequently, and not only he himself personally, but his posterity also: and he called his name Israel ; confirmed the name he had before given him, Genesis 32:28 ; and by this... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 35:9
And God appeared unto Jacob again ,.... At Bethel, as he had at Shechem, when he bid him go thither, Genesis 35:1 ; or rather as he had at the brook Jabbok, where he said to him the same things as here, Genesis 32:24 , though Jarchi interprets it of his appearing again to him at the same place at Bethel, where he had appeared to him the first time, at his going to Haran, and now a second time: when he came out of Padanaram ; or returned from thence: and blessed him ; with the... read more