Genesis 35:8-29 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 35:16-20

We have here the story of the death of Rachel, the beloved wife of Jacob. 1. She fell in travail by the way, not able to reach to Bethlehem, the next town, though they were near it; so suddenly does pain sometimes come upon a woman in travail, which she cannot escape, or put off. We may suppose Jacob had soon a tent up, convenient enough for her reception. 2. Her pains were violent. She had hard labour, harder than usual: this was the effect of sin, Gen. 3:16. Note, Human life begins with... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 35:21-29

Here is, 1. Jacob's removal, Gen. 35:21. He also, as his fathers, sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country, and was not long in a place. Immediately after the story of Rachel's death he is here called Israel (Gen. 35:21, 22), and not often so afterwards: the Jews say, ?The historian does him this honour here because he bore that affliction with such admirable patience and submission to Providence.? Note, Those are Israels indeed, princes with God, that support the government of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 35:8

But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died ,.... That is, when, and quickly after they were come to Bethel; a nurse of Rebekah's came with her to Canaan, when she married Isaac, and is generally thought to be this Deborah, which is not improbable, Genesis 24:59 , though she might have more nurses than one, as great personages sometimes have, and then it will not be so difficult to answer the objection made here; that Rebekah's nurse, whom Jacob is supposed to leave in Canaan when he went to... read more

John Gill

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

John Gill

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 Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 35:11

And God said unto him, I am God Almighty ,.... And so able to protect and defend him, and to fulfil all promises made to him, and to supply him with everything he wanted; being, as some choose to render the word, "God all sufficient", having a sufficiency of all good things in him to communicate to his people: be fruitful and multiply ; which carries in it a promise or prophecy that he should increase and multiply, though not he himself personally, he having but one son born after... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 35:12

And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee will I give it ,.... Meaning the land of Canaan, which, as he had by promise given it to his grandfather, and father, so he would give it to him; thus renewing the grant of it for his comfort, and the encouragement of his faith, when he had been in danger of being destroyed by the inhabitants of it, and was obliged to remove from one part of it to another: and to thy seed after thee will I give the land ; and not only make a grant of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 35:13

And God went up from him ,.... Or "from above" him F24 מעליו "desuper eum", Montanus. ; by this it seems that there was a visible appearance of the glory of the Lord, as Onkelos, or of the Shechinah, as Jonathan; even of the Son of God in an human form, who either appeared just above him, or on the same spot with him, conversing with him as above related; and when he had done, ascended in a visible manner from him, till he disappeared: in the place where he talked with him ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 35:14

And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him ,.... He had set up a pillar in this place before he went to Padanaram, Genesis 28:18 ; and some, think this pillar is here referred to, and render the words, "had set up a pillar" F25 ויצב "erexerat", Vatablus; "et statuerat", Piscator; so Aben Ezra. ; but as that was done thirty years ago, it is very likely it was demolished by the Heathens before this time, or was fallen to ruin, wherefore this must be at least a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 35:15

And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel. He confirmed the name he had before given it, when he went to Mesopotamia, and now upon his return renews and establishes it; or he gave this name more especially to that particular spot where God conversed with him, and on which he erected a pillar, and consecrated it to religious worship, and so made it God's house, as he promised he would, Genesis 28:22 , both building an altar for sacrifice, and setting up a... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 35:16-20

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 35:21-29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 35:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 35:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 35:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 35:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 35:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 35:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 35:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 35:15

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