Genesis 31:25-55 WEB

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 31:25-35

We have here the reasoning, not to say the rallying, that took place between Laban and Jacob at their meeting, in that mountain which was afterwards called Gilead, Gen. 31:25. Here is, I. The high charge which Laban exhibited against him. He accuses him, 1. As a renegade that had unjustly deserted his service. To represent Jacob as a criminal, he will have it thought that he intended kindness to his daughters (Gen. 31:27, 28), that he would have dismissed them with all the marks of love and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 31:36-42

See in these verses, I. The power of provocation. Jacob's natural temper was mild and calm, and grace had improved it; he was a smooth man, and a plain man; and yet Laban's unreasonable carriage towards him put him into a heat that transported him into a heat that transported him into some vehemence, Gen. 31:36, 37. His chiding with Laban, though it may admit of some excuse, was not justifiable, nor is it written for our imitation. Grievous words stir up anger, and commonly do but make bad... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 31:43-55

We have here the compromising of the matter between Laban and Jacob. Laban had nothing to say in reply to Jacob's remonstrance: he could neither justify himself nor condemn Jacob, but was convicted by his own conscience of the wrong he had done him; and therefore desires to hear no more of the matter He is not willing to own himself in a fault, nor to ask Jacob's forgiveness, and make him satisfaction, as he ought to have done. But, I. He turns it off with a profession of kindness for Jacob's... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 31:25

Then Laban overtook Jacob ,.... He was come to the mount the overnight, but now in the morning he came nearer to him, so as to hold a conversation with him: now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount, and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead ; both on the same mount; one perhaps at the bottom, and the other at the top; or one on one hill of it, and the other on another, or right over against one another. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 31:26

And Laban said unto Jacob ,.... Upon their meeting together; perhaps in some middle place between their two tents: what hast thou done ? what evil hast thou committed? what folly art thou guilty of? and what could induce thee to take such a step as this? suggesting that he could see no necessity for it; and as if he had done nothing that should occasion it, and that Jacob had done a very ill thing that thou hast stolen away unawares to me : of this phrase See Gill on Genesis 31:20 ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 31:27

Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me ?.... Intimating as if he should not have been against his departure, if he had but acquainted him with it, and the reasons of it; so that he had no need to have used such privacy, and go away like a thief by stealth, as if he had done something he had reason to be ashamed of: and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth , and with songs, with tabret and with harp : pretending that he would have... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 31:28

And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters ?.... Did not give him an opportunity of taking his farewell, which used to be done with a kiss, as it is with us at this day: by his sons he means his grandsons, and so the Targum of Jonathan, my daughters' sons; and by his daughters Rachel and Leah, and Dinah his granddaughter: thou hast done foolishly in so doing : since, as he would have him believe that he was both a loser by this step he took, and exposed himself to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 31:29

It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt ,.... Jacob and his family, wives, children, and servants, who were not able to stand against Laban and the men he brought with him; and so the Jerusalem Targum paraphrases it,"I have an army and a multitude;'a large force, which Jacob could not withstand: or, "my hand could have been for a god" F8 יש לאל ידי "esset mihi pro deo manus mea", Schmidt. to me: you could have no more escaped it, or got out of it, or withstood me, than you... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 31:30

And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone ,.... Or, "in going wouldest go" F9 הלך הלכת "eundo ivisti", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius. , was determined upon it, and in haste to do it: because thou sore longedst after thy father's house , or "desiring didst desire it" F11 כסף נכספתה "desiderando desiderabis", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Drusius, Piscator. ; had a vehement desire for it, which Laban signifies he should not have opposed, if he had let him know his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 31:31

And Jacob answered and said to Laban, because I was afraid ,.... That he would have done all he could to have hindered him from going away himself; and not only so, but would have prevented his taking his daughters with him; and especially would have detained his cattle; but of this last Jacob makes no mention, only of the former: for I said ; either within himself, or to his wives: peradventure thou wouldest take by force thy daughters from me ; which of right belonged to him; for... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 31:25-35

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 31:36-42

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 31:43-55

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 31:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 31:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 31:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 31:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 31:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 31:30

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 31:31

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