Genesis 15:13-16 WEB

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 15:13

Genesis 15:13. Afflict them four hundred years— That is, from the birth of Isaac, the seed to whom the promise was given: and from that birth to the coming out of AEgypt, were just four hundred years. It cannot fail to strike the attentive reader how exactly this prophecy, respecting Abram's seed, was fulfilled. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 15:14

Genesis 15:14. Will I judge— Judge is a Hebraism for punish: 2 Chronicles 20:12.Hebrews 13:4; Hebrews 13:4. It is also used in the contrary sense, of acquitting, rewarding, or redressing wrongs, when applied to the righteous, Psalms 10:18. The reason is evident: God, the just Judge, when he tries both righteous and wicked, may properly be said to judge, either in the sense of condemning or acquitting, as his judgment is, and always must be, perfectly right. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 15:15

Genesis 15:15. Thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace— It appears that this verse only concerns Abram personally, but all the rest of the prophecy respects his posterity. Some, says Parker, think this, Thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace, was no more than an oriental phrase for going to the grave: but it cannot be said of Abram that he did thus go to his fathers, since his dead body was so far from being laid with them in their sepulchre, that it was deposited in a country which had no manner... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 15:16

Genesis 15:16. In the fourth generation— Either, 1st, from the descent into AEgypt; and thus Caleb was the fourth from Judah; and Moses and Aaron the fourth from Levi: or, 2nd, in the fourth generation of the Amorites; a sense which seems the more probable from the words immediately following, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. The Amorites are here put for the whole inhabitants of Canaan, as being the most considerable for their power, Amo 2:9 and being also the people among... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 15:13-14

Moses gave more detail regarding the history of the seed here than he had revealed previously (cf. Genesis 15:14; Genesis 15:16). The 400 years of enslavement were evidently from 1845 B.C. to 1446 B.C., the date of the Exodus. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 15:15

The ancients conceived of death as a time when they would rejoin their departed ancestors (cf. 2 Samuel 12:23). There was evidently little understanding of what lay beyond the grave at this time in history. [Note: For a synopsis of Israel’s view of life after death, see Bernhard Lang, "Afterlife: Ancient Israel’s Changing Vision of the World Beyond," Bible Review 4:1 (February 1988):12-23.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 15:16

The Hebrew word translated "generation" really refers to a lifetime, which at this period in history was about 100 years. [Note: See W. F. Albright, The Biblical Period from Abraham to Ezra, p. 9; and Theological Workbook of the Old Testament, s.v., "dor," by Robert D. Culver, 1:186-87.] This seems a better explanation than that four literal generations are in view. The writer mentioned four literal generations in Exodus 6:16-20 and Numbers 26:58-59, but there were quite evidently gaps in those... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 15:1-21

God Promises an Heir to Abraham and the Land of Canaan for his Descendants. The Promise is Ratified by a CovenantThe passage is from the Primitive source. A somewhat similar account from the Priestly narrative is given in Genesis 17. The repetition shows the importance attached by the compiler of Genesis to these records of the promises as testifying to the divine purposes for the Hebrew people.1. Vision] probably a trance, with the senses dormant, but the mind awake to spiritual impressions:... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 15:13

(13) Four hundred years.—The exact duration of the sojourn in Egypt was 430 years (Exodus 12:40-41), and with this agrees the genealogy of Jehoshua (1 Chronicles 7:23-27). read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 15:14

(14) That nation.—Had it been expressly revealed that the country that would afflict them was Egypt, the patriarchs might have been unwilling to go thither; but the reference to the plagues in the denunciation of judgment, and to the spoiling of the Egyptians in the promise that they should “come out with great substance” (Exodus 12:36), gave detail sufficient for future guidance, and for their assurance in time to come that the promise had been fulfilled. read more

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 15:13

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 15:14

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 15:15

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 15:16

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 15:13-14

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 15:15

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Genesis 15:16

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 15:1-21

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 15:13

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Genesis 15:14

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