Genesis 28:16-17

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis 28:10-22

Genesis THE HEAVENLY PATHWAY AND THE EARTHLY HEART Gen_28:10 - Gen_28:22 . From Abraham to Jacob is a great descent. The former embodies the nobler side of the Jewish character,-its capacity for religious ideas; its elevation above, and separation from, the nations; its consciousness of, and peaceful satisfaction in, a divine Friend; its consequent vocation in the world. These all were deep in the founder of the race, and flowed to it from him. Jacob, on the other hand, has in him the more... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Genesis 28:10-22

Jacob’s Vision at Bethel Genesis 28:10-22 This is the Ladder chapter, in which a wayward, weak man is seen holding fellowship with the Eternal God, who loves us, notwithstanding our unworthiness, and desire to lead us into a life of power and blessedness. It is all wonderful! Notice the four Beholds! Genesis 28:12-15 . Sunset . Overtaken on a moor by the swift fall of the Oriental night, Jacob had no alternative than to sleep in the open. But he slept to see! Night . There is an open way... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Genesis 28:1-22

Here Jacob is seen exiled from his home, flying from Beersheba. In this connection we have the account of the first of the direct divine communications to him. Tired and weary, he reached Luz and during a dream he had a vision which suggested communication between heaven and earth. What impressed Jacob, however, seems not to have been that part of the vision, but the fact that Jehovah was there in that distant place and that He spoke to him. On waking, Jacob declared his new consciousness of... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 28:16

THE PILGRIM’S VISION‘And Jacob said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.’ Genesis 28:16 At Bethel Jacob gained the knowledge for himself of the real presence of a personal God. He felt that he a person, he a true living being, he a reasonable soul, stood indeed before an infinite but still a true personal being—before the Lord Almighty. Then it was that the patriarch entered into the greatness of his calling, and felt for himself the true blessedness of his inheritance. I.... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 28:17

‘HALLOWED GROUND’“How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.’ Genesis 28:17 I. It must have been the freshness of Jacob’s sense of recent sin that made a spot so dreadful and so blessed seem to him a ‘dreadful’ place. Everything takes its character from the conscience. Even a Bethel was awful, and the ladder of angels terrible, to a man who had just been deceiving his father and robbing his brother. The gates of our heaven are the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 28:10-22

Jacob meets God at Bethel (Genesis 28:10-22 ) Genesis 28:10 ‘And Jacob went out from Beersheba and went towards Haran.’ At this stage Isaac and the family tribe are still firmly situated in Beersheba. Twenty years later they will be found in Mamre near Hebron (Genesis 35:27). That the tribe had kept in close touch with the children of Heth, who were connected with Mamre (Genesis 23:17-18), is clear from Genesis 26:34; Genesis 27:46. Perhaps they had outstayed their welcome at Beersheba. That... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 28:10-22

Genesis 28:10-Song of Solomon : . Yahweh Reveals Himself to Jacob at Bethel.— This section is taken from J and E. To E Genesis 28:11 f., Genesis 28:17 f., Genesis 28:20-Ecclesiastes : a, Genesis 28:22 may be assigned, to J Genesis 28:10, Genesis 28:13-Nehemiah :, and perhaps Genesis 28:19 a. This may be an insertion, so perhaps Genesis 28:19 b, Genesis 28:21 b. The fuller and finer story belongs to E, who as a North Israelite was much more interested than J in the great northern sanctuary,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 28:16

Surely the Lord is in this place, by his special and gracious presence, and the manifestation of his mind and will to me; and I little expected to meet with such a revelation out of my father’s house, much less in this desert and doleful state and place, when I thought myself rejected by God, as well as abandoned by men. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 28:17

How dreadful is this place, or venerable, both for the majesty of the Person present, and for the glorious manner of his discovery of himself! The house of God; the habitation of God and of his holy angels. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 28:10-22

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 28:11. And he lighted upon a certain place.] “The term means he fell upon the place, as the providential stopping-place incidentally coming upon it, or coming up to it, as the lodging place for the night. This place was about forty-eight miles from Beersheba, and eight miles north of Jerusalem, near the town of Bethel, and is defined as the place from its being so well known in the history.” (Jacobus.)—Genesis 28:12. A ladder.] “Whether it was the vision of a common... read more

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