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Selected Verse: Genesis 31:22 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ge 31:22 |
Strong Concordance |
And it was told [05046] Laban [03837] on the third [07992] day [03117] that Jacob [03290] was fled [01272]. |
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King James |
And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
LABAN PURSUES JACOB--THEIR COVENANT AT GILEAD. (Gen. 31:22-55)
it was told Laban on the third day--No sooner did the news reach Laban than he set out in pursuit, and he being not encumbered, advanced rapidly; whereas Jacob, with a young family and numerous flocks, had to march slowly, so that he overtook the fugitives after seven days' journey as they lay encamped on the brow of mount Gilead, an extensive range of hills forming the eastern boundary of Canaan. Being accompanied by a number of his people, he might have used violence had he not been divinely warned in a dream to give no interruption to his nephew's journey. How striking and sudden a change! For several days he had been full of rage, and was now in eager anticipation that his vengeance would be fully wreaked, when lo! his hands are tied by invisible power (Psa 76:10). He did not dare to touch Jacob, but there was a war of words. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
Laban's Pursuit, Reconciliation, and Covenant with Jacob. - As Laban was not told till the third day after the flight, though he pursued the fugitives with his brethren, i.e., his nearest relations, he did not overtake Jacob for seven days, by which time he had reached the mountains of Gilead (Gen 31:22-24). The night before he overtook them, he was warned by God in a dream, "not to speak to Jacob from good to bad," i.e., not to say anything decisive and emphatic for the purpose of altering what had already occurred (vid., Gen 31:29, and the note on Gen 24:50). Hence he confined himself, when they met, "to bitter reproaches combining paternal feeling on the one hand with hypocrisy on the other;" in which he told them that he had the power to do them harm, if God had not forbidden him, and charged them with stealing his gods (the teraphim). |
10 Surely the wrath [02534] of man [0120] shall praise [03034] thee: the remainder [07611] of wrath [02534] shalt thou restrain [02296].
50 Then Laban [03837] and Bethuel [01328] answered [06030] and said [0559], The thing [01697] proceedeth [03318] from the LORD [03068]: we cannot [03201] speak [01696] unto thee bad [07451] or [0176] good [02896].
29 It is [03426] in the power [0410] of my hand [03027] to do [06213] you hurt [07451]: but the God [0430] of your father [01] spake [0559] unto me yesternight [0570], saying [0559], Take thou heed [08104] that thou speak not [01696] to Jacob [03290] either good [02896] or bad [07451].
22 And it was told [05046] Laban [03837] on the third [07992] day [03117] that Jacob [03290] was fled [01272].
23 And he took [03947] his brethren [0251] with him, and pursued [07291] after him [0310] seven [07651] days [03117]' journey [01870]; and they overtook [01692] him in the mount [02022] Gilead [01568].
24 And God [0430] came [0935] to Laban [03837] the Syrian [0761] in a dream [02472] by night [03915], and said [0559] unto him, Take heed [08104] that thou speak [01696] not to [05973] Jacob [03290] either good [02896] or [05704] bad [07451].