Genesis 15:2 - Exposition

And Abram said, Lord God. Adonai Jehovah ; the first use of these terms in combination, the second, which usually has the vowel-points of the first, being here written with the vocalization of Elohim. Adonai, an older plural form of Adonim, pluralis excellentive (Gesenius), though by some the termination is regarded as a suffix (Ewald, Furst), is a term descriptive of the Divine sovereignty, from adan = dun, or din, to rule or judge; connected with which is the Phoenician aden, an honorary epithet of deity, and recognized as such in Deuteronomy 10:17 ( vide Furst , 'Hebrew Lexicon,' sub voce ). What wilt thou give me, seeing I go literally , and I going— ἐγὼ δὲ ἀπολύομαι ( LXX ; Jonathan); ex hac vita discedam (Rosenmüller); but this, though the word "go" is sometimes used in the sense of "die" (Ps 39:14), does not seem necessary— childless —solitary, desolate, hence devoid of offspring, as in Leviticus Genesis 20:1-18 :20, 21; Jeremiah 22:30 —and the steward—Ben-Meshek ; either