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- 08550
- 1 Abraham swears his servant.
- 10 The servant's journey.
- 12 His prayer.
- 14 His sign.
- 15 Rebekah meets him;
- 18 fulfils his sign;
- 22 receives jewels;
- 23 shows her kindred;
- 25 and invites him home.
- 26 The servant blesses God.
- 29 Laban entertains him.
- 34 The servant shows his message.
- 50 Laban and Bethuel approve it.
- 58 Rebekah consents to go, and departs.
- 62 Isaac meets and marries her.
-
- * was old.
- # 18:11 21:5 25:20 1Ki 1:1 Lu 1:7
- * well stricken in age. Heb. gone into days. blessed.
- # 35
- # 12:2 13:2 49:25 Ps 112:1-3 Pr 10:22 Isa 51:2 Mt 6:33 Ga 3:9
- # Eph 1:3 1Ti 4:8
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- * eldest.
- # 15:2 1Ti 5:17
- * ruled.
- # 10 39:4-6,8,9 44:1
- * Put.
- # 9 47:29 1Ch 29:24
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- * swear.
- # 21:23 26:28-31 31:44-53 50:25 Ex 20:7 22:11 23:13 Le 19:12
- # Nu 5:21 De 6:13 10:20 Jos 2:12 1Sa 20:17 Ne 13:25 Isa 45:23
- # Isa 48:1 65:16 Jer 4:2 12:16 Zep 1:5 Heb 6:16
- * the.
- # 14:22 2Ki 19:15 2Ch 2:12 Ne 9:6 Ps 115:15 Jer 10:11
- * that.
- # 6:2,4 26:34,35 27:46 28:1,2,8 Ex 34:16 De 7:3,4 1Co 7:39
- # 2Co 6:14-17
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- * to my kindred.
- # 11:25-32 12:1,7 22:20-23 28:2
- There does not appear in all this concern the least taint of
- worldly policy, or any of those motives which usually govern
- men in the settlement of their children. No mention is made
- of riches, or honours, or natural accomplishments, but merely
- of what related to God.--Fuller.
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- * Peradventure.
- # 58 Ex 20:7 9:2 Pr 13:16 Jer 4:2
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- # Ga 5:1 Heb 10:39 11:9,13-16 2Pe 2:20-22
- 08556
- * Lord.
- # Ezr 1:2 Da 2:44 Jon 1:9 Re 11:13
- * took.
- # 12:1-7
- * which spake.
- # 13:15 15:18 17:8 22:16-18 26:3,4,24 Ex 13:5 32:13 Nu 14:16,30
- # Nu 32:11 De 1:8 34:4 Jos 1:6 Jud 2:1 Ac 7:5 Heb 11:9
- * angel.
- # Ex 23:20-23 33:2 Ps 32:8 34:7 73:24 103:20 Pr 3:5,6 Isa 63:9
- # Heb 1:14
- 08557
- * clear.
- # Nu 30:5,8 Jos 2:17-20 9:20 Joh 8:32
- * only.
- # 4,5,6 Ac 7:2
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- # 2
- 08559
- * for. or, and. all the.
- # 2 39:4-6,8,9,22,23
- * Mesopotamia.
- # De 23:4 Jud 3:8-10 1Ch 19:6 Ac 2:9
- * city.
- # 11:31 27:43 29:1,4,5
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- * kneel.
- # 33:13,14 Pr 12:10
- * women go out to draw water. Heb. women which draw water go
- forth.
- # 13-20 Ex 2:16 1Sa 9:11 Joh 4:7
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- * O Lord.
- # 27 15:1 17:7,8 26:24 28:13 31:42 32:9 Ex 3:6,15 1Ki 18:36
- # 2Ki 2:14 Mt 22:32
- * I pray.
- # 27:10 43:14 Ne 1:11 2:4 Ps 37:5 90:16,17 118:25 122:6 127:1
- # Pr 3:6 Php 4:6 1Th 3:10,11
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- * I stand.
- # 43 Ps 37:5 Pr 3:6
- * daughters.
- # 11 29:9,10 Ex 2:16 Jud 5:11 1Sa 9:11 Joh 4:7
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- * And let.
- # Jud 6:17,37 1Sa 14:9
- * she that.
- # 44 Pr 19:14
- * thereby.
- # 15:8 Ex 4:1-9 Jud 6:17,37 7:13-15 18:5 1Sa 6:7-9 10:2-10
- # 1Sa 14:8,10 20:7 2Sa 5:24 20:9 2Ki 20:8-11 Isa 7:11 Ro 1:10
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- * before.
- # 45 Jud 6:36-40 Ps 34:15 65:2 145:18,19 Isa 58:9 65:24
- # Da 9:20-23
- * Rebekah.
- # 24 22:20-23
- * Milcah.
- # 11:27,29 22:23
- * pitcher.
- # 21:14 29:9 Ex 2:16 Ru 2:2,17 Pr 31:27
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- * fair to look upon. Heb. good of countenance.
- # 26:7 39:6
- * known.
- # 4:1 Nu 31:17,18 So 5:2
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- * Let.
- # 1Ki 17:10 Joh 4:7,9
- * water of.
- # 26:1-35 Isa 21:14 30:25 35:6,7 41:17,18 49:10
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- # Pr 31:26 1Pe 3:8 4:8,9
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- # 14,45,46 1Pe 4:9
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- # 20
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- * wondering at.
- # 2Sa 7:18-20 Ps 34:1-6 107:1,8,15,43 116:1-7 Lu 2:19,51
- * to wit. i.e., "to know," or "to learn."
- * the Lord.
- # 12,56
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- * took.
- # 30 Ex 32:2,3 Es 5:1 Jer 2:32 1Ti 2:9,10 1Pe 3:3,8
- * earring. or, jewel for the forehead.
- # Ex 32:2,3 Isa 3:19-23 Eze 16:11,12
- From the word being in the singular number, it is not likely
- to have been an ear-ring, or a "jewel for the forehead," but
- "a jewel for the nose, a nose-ring," which is in use
- throughout Arabia and Persia, particularly among young women.
- It is very properly translated [epirrinon,] "an ornament for
- the nose," by Symmachus; and Sir John Chardin informs us, that
- "it is a custom in almost all the East, for the women to wear
- rings in their noses, in the left nostril, which is bored low
- down in the middle. These rings are of gold, and have
- commonly two pearls and one ruby between, placed in the ring.
- I never saw a girl or young woman in Arabia or in all Persia,
- who did not wear a ring after this manner in her nostril."
-
- * of half.
- # 23:15,16
- * bracelets.
- The word rendered "bracelet," from a root which signifies "to
- join or couple together," may imply whatever may clasp round
- the arms and legs; for rings and ornaments are worn round both
- by females in India and Persia. The small part of the leg,
- and the whole arm, from the shoulder to the wrist, are
- generally decorated in this way. As these were given to
- Rebekah for "her hands," it sufficiently distinguishes them
- from similar ornaments for the ankles.
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- # 23
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- # 15 11:29 22:20,23
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- # 18:4-8 Jud 19:19-21 Isa 32:8 1Pe 4:9
- 08575
- # 48,52 22:5 Ex 4:31 12:27 34:8 1Ch 29:20 2Ch 20:18 29:30 Ne 8:6
- # Ps 22:29 66:4 72:9 95:6 Mic 6:6 Php 2:10
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- * Blessed.
- # 12 9:26 14:20 Ex 18:10 Ru 4:14 1Sa 25:32,39 2Sa 18:28
- # 1Ch 29:10-13 Ps 68:19 72:18,19 Lu 1:68 Eph 1:3 1Ti 1:17
- * of his.
- # 32:10 Ps 98:3 100:5 Mic 7:20 Joh 1:17
- * the Lord.
- # 48 Pr 3:6 4:11-13 8:20
- * of my.
- # 4 13:8 Ex 2:11,13
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- * of.
- # 48,55,67 31:33
- * her mother's.
- Some have conjectured from this, that her father Bethuel was
- dead; and the person called Bethuel, (ver. 50,) was a younger
- brother. This is possible; but as Dr. A. Clarke remarks, the
- mother's house might be mentioned were even the father alive;
- for in Asiatic countries, the women have apartments entirely
- separate from those of the men, in which their little children
- and grown-up daughters reside with them. This was probably
- the case here; though, from the whole narrative, it is very
- probable that Bethuel was dead, as the whole business appears
- to be conducted by Rebekah's brothers.
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- # 55,60 29:5
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- # 30
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- * thou.
- # 26:29 Jud 17:2 Ru 3:10 Ps 115:15 Pr 17:8 18:16
- * for I.
- # 25
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- * he ungirded. i.e., Laban ungirded. straw.
- Straw, by the eastern mode of threshing, was cut or shattered,
- and reduced to a kind of chaff. With this, sometimes mixed
- with a little barley, the eastern people still feed their
- labouring beasts, as they anciently did.
-
- * wash.
- # 18:4 19:2 43:24 Jud 19:21 1Sa 25:41 Lu 7:44 Joh 13:4-14
- # 1Ti 5:10
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- # Job 23:12 Ps 132:3-5 Pr 22:29 Ec 9:10 Joh 4:14,31-34 Eph 6:5-8
- # 1Ti 6:2
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- # 2
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- * the Lord.
- # 1 12:2 13:2 25:11 26:12 49:25 Ps 18:35 112:3 Pr 10:22 22:4
- # 1Ti 4:8
- * flocks.
- # 12:16 13:2 26:13,14 Job 1:3 42:10-12 Ps 107:38 Mt 6:33
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- * Sarah.
- # 11:29,30 17:15-19 18:10-14 21:1-7 Ro 4:19
- * unto.
- # 21:10 25:5
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- * And my.
- # 2-9 6:2 27:46 Ezr 9:1-3
- * Canaanites.
- The Canaanites were infected with gross idolatry; and
- consequently, not proper persons with whom to form so intimate
- a connection; especially as Jehovah had shown Abraham that
- they were filling up the measure of their iniquity, and were
- doomed to destruction.
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- * But.
- # 4 12:1
- * my father's.
- i.e., Where the family of Haran his brother had settled; and
- where he himself had remained some time with his father Terah.
- Nahor did not dwell at Ur of the Chaldees, but at Haran in
- Mesopotamia. The true worship of God seems to have been in
- some measure preserved in this family, though afterwards
- corrupted.
-
- # 31:19
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- # 5
- * Peradventure.
- We may see, says Calmet, by this and other passages of
- Scripture, (Jos 9:18,) what the sentiments of the ancients
- were relative to an oath. They believed that they were bound
- precisely by what was spoken, and had no liberty to interpret
- the intentions of those by whom the oath was made.
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- * And he.
- # 7
- * before.
- # 5:22,24 6:9 17:1 48:15 1Ki 2:3 8:23 2Ki 20:3 Ps 16:8
- * will.
- # 7 Ex 23:20 33:2 Ps 1:3 91:11 Da 3:28 Heb 1:14 Re 22:8,16
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- # 8 De 29:12
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- * O Lord.
- # 12-14 Ac 10:7,8,22
- * prosper.
- # 12,31 39:3 Ezr 8:21 Ne 1:11 Ps 37:5 90:17 Ro 1:10
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- # 13,14
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- * Both.
- # Isa 32:8 1Ti 2:10 Heb 13:2 1Pe 3:8
- * the woman.
- # 14 2:22 Pr 16:33 18:22 19:14
- * appointed.
- Those events, which appear to us the effect of choice,
- contrivance, or chance, are matters of appointment with God;
- and the persuasion of this does not prevent, but rather
- encourage, the use of all proper means; at the same time that
- it confines us to proper means, and delivers the mind from
- useless anxiety about consequences.
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- * before.
- # 15-20 Isa 58:9 65:24 Da 9:19,23 Ac 4:24-33 10:30 12:12-17
- # Mt 7:7
- * speaking.
- # 1Sa 1:13-15 2Sa 7:27 Ne 2:4 Ro 8:26
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- # 46
- 08596
- * I put.
- # 22,53 Ps 45:9,13,14 Isa 62:3-5 Eze 16:10-13 Eph 5:26,27
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- * bowed.
- # 26,27,52
- * led me.
- # 27 22:23 Ex 18:20 Ezr 8:21 Ps 32:8 48:14 107:7 Pr 3:5,6 4:11
- # Isa 48:17
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- * now if.
- # 47:29 Jos 2:14
- * deal kindly and truly. Heb. do mercy and truth.
- # 32:10 Pr 3:3
- * that I.
- # Nu 20:17 De 2:27
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- * Laban.
- These seem both to be brothers, of whom Laban was the eldest
- and chief: the opinion of Josephus appears to be very
- correct, that Bethuel, the father, had been dead some time.
-
- # 15,28,53,55,60
- * The thing.
- # Ps 118:23 Mt 21:42 Mr 12:11
- * we.
- # 31:24,29 2Sa 13:22 Ac 11:17
-