Genesis 28:16-17

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 28:1-22

Genesis 28:0 I. If there be little poetic or romantic charm in the history of Isaac, what a wealth of it there is in that of Jacob! A double deceit, followed by banishment from his country; this expulsion relieved and brightened, first by a glorious vision and then by unexampled prosperity in the strange land whither he had gone; long toils, travails, disappointments, and quarrels; and, at last, light at eventime in Egypt, and the spirit of prophecy resting upon his soul. Jacob's love for... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 28:10-17

Genesis 28:10-17 Jacob makes his brother's hunger an occasion for bargaining with him for his birthright. Esau says, "What profit shall this birthright do to me?" Neither one nor the other knew what good it would do. The vision of something to be realised now or hereafter dawned upon Jacob a vision probably mixed with many sensual and selfish expectations, still of a good not tangible, a good which must come to him as a gift from God. The absence of all want, all discontent with the present and... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 28:11-16

Genesis 28:11-16 Sleeping to see. One may be too wide-awake to see. There are things which are hidden from us until we lie down to sleep. Only then do the heavens open and the angels of God disclose themselves. I. It does not follow that God is not because we cannot discern Him, because we are not aware of Him. Little do we dream of the veiled wonders and splendours amidst which we move. To Jacob's mental fret and confusion, the wilderness where God brooded was a wilderness and nothing more.... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 28:16

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. This living sense of God's presence with us is a leading feature of the character of all His... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 28:17

Genesis 28:17 I. It must have been the freshness of Jacob's sense of recent sin that made a spot so peaceful 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 places of our dread. II. Strange and paradoxical as is this union of the sense of beauty, holiness, and fear, there are... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Genesis 28:16-19

DISCOURSE: 45JACOB’S PILLAR AT BETH-ELGenesis 28:16-19. And Jacob awaked out of his sleep; and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God; and this is the gate of heaven. And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Genesis 28:16

Jacob's Waking Exclamation July 21st, 1861 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord in this place; and I knew it not." Genesis 28:16 . Through his own foolish wisdom Jacob had been compelled to leave his father's house. Perhaps we are scarcely able to judge of the sorrowful feelings which this banishment would beget in his soul. Here we go from one Christian home to another. If we leave the parental roof we may hope still to sojourn where... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 28:1-22

Chapter 28So Isaac called Jacob, and he blessed him, and he charged him, and he said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. Arise, and go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from there of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother ( Genesis 28:1-2 ).Now evidently, they were able to keep some kind of a communication perhaps by the caravans that would travel. You'd give a letter and it will be carried and you'd-and they would... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 28:1-22

Genesis 28:1. Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. A heart-rending business to be forced away from his father’s house in the 58th year of his age. He went not with a train of ten camels, as were sent to his mother when brought to Isaac, but as a pilgrim with his staff in his hand to learn to trust in the Lord. Isaac, in the charge respecting Jacob’s marriage, kept his eye constantly on the promises, and in this he is an example to believers, for the Lord is ever mindful of his faithful word.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 28:16

Genesis 28:16Surely the Lord is In this place, and I knew it notThe sense of God’s presenceI.This living sense of God’s presence with us is a leading feature of the character of all His saints under every dispensation. This is the purpose of all God’s dealings with every child of Adam--to reveal Himself to them and in them. He kindles desires after Himself; He helps and strengthens the wayward will; He broods with a loving energy over the soul; He will save us if we will be saved. All God’s... read more

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