Verse 22
22. Struggled together within her Hebrews, dashed against one another . Premonition of the coming differences between the offspring .
If it be so, why am I thus The Vulgate reads: “If it was to have been so with me, why should I have conceived?” Rebekah was evidently of an excitable and emotional temperament, (compare Genesis 27:46,) and under the pains of maturing pregnancy yielded fitfully to despondency and gloom.
Went to inquire of the Lord Where and how, has been often asked, but not so easily answered. The old Jewish interpreters suppose she went to Shem, or to Melchizedek, who were still living. Much more probable is the supposition that she went to Abraham, who was still living, and known as a prophet, (Genesis 20:7, compare 1 Samuel 9:9,) and doubtless intensely interested in the prospective offspring of Isaac . But, perhaps, she went to that domestic altar where Isaac had so earnestly besought Jehovah for her, (Genesis 25:21,) and Jehovah answered by his angel as he spoke to Hagar . Genesis 16:11.
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