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Selected Verse: Genesis 35:8 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
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| Ge 35:8 |
Strong Concordance |
But Deborah [01683] Rebekah's [07259] nurse [03243] died [04191], and she was buried [06912] beneath Bethel [01008] under an oak [0437]: and the name [08034] of it was called [07121] Allonbachuth [0439]. |
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King James |
But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth. |
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] |
| Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died--This event seems to have taken place before the solemnities were commenced. Deborah (Hebrew, a "bee"), supposing her to have been fifty years on coming to Canaan, had attained the great age of a hundred eighty. When she was removed from Isaac's household to Jacob's, is unknown. But it probably was on his return from Mesopotamia; and she would have been of invaluable service to his young family. Old nurses, like her, were not only honored, but loved as mothers; and, accordingly, her death was the occasion of great lamentation. She was buried under the oak--hence called "the terebinth of tears" (compare Kg1 13:14). God was pleased to make a new appearance to him after the solemn rites of devotion were over. By this manifestation of His presence, God testified His acceptance of Jacob's sacrifice and renewed the promise of the blessings guaranteed to Abraham and Isaac [Gen 35:11-12]; and the patriarch observed the ceremony with which he had formerly consecrated the place, comprising a sacramental cup, along with the oil that he poured on the pillar, and reimposing the memorable name [Gen 35:14]. The whole scene was in accordance with the character of the patriarchal dispensation, in which the great truths of religion were exhibited to the senses, and "the world's grey fathers" taught in a manner suited to the weakness of an infantile condition. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| There Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and was buried below Bethel under an oak, which was henceforth called the "oak of weeping," a mourning oak, from the grief of Jacob's house on account of her death. Deborah had either been sent by Rebekah to take care of her daughters-in-law and grandsons, or had gone of her own accord into Jacob's household after the death of her mistress. The mourning at her death, and the perpetuation of her memory, are proofs that she must have been a faithful and highly esteemed servant in Jacob's house. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| There he buried Deborah, Rebekah's nurse - We have reason to think that Jacob, after he came to Canaan, while his family dwelt near Shechem, went himself to visit his father Isaac at Hebron. Rebekah probably was dead, but her old nurse (of whom mention is made Gen 24:59,) survived her, and Jacob took her to his family. While they were at Beth - el she died, and died lamented, so much lamented, that the oak under which she was buried, was called Allon - bachuth, the oak of weeping. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died - She was sent with Rebekah when taken by Abraham's servant to be wife to Isaac, Gen 24:59. How she came to be in Jacob's family, expositors are greatly puzzled to find out; but the text does not state that she was in Jacob's family. Her death is mentioned merely because Jacob and his family had now arrived at the place where she was buried, and the name of that place was called Allon-bachuth, "the oak of weeping," as it is likely her death had been greatly regretted, and a general and extraordinary mourning had taken place on the occasion. Of Rebekah's death we know nothing. After her counsel to her son, Gen 27:5-17, Gen 27:42-46, we hear no more of her history from the sacred writings, except of her burial in Gen 49:31. Her name is written in the dust. And is not this designed as a mark of the disapprobation of God? It seems strange that such an inconsiderable person as a nurse should be mentioned, when even the person she brought up is passed by unnoticed! It has been observed that the nurse of Aeneas is mentioned nearly in the same way by the poet Virgil; and in the circumstances, in both cases, there is a striking resemblance.
"Tu quoque littoribus nostris,
Aeneia nutrix, Aeternam moriens famam,
Caleta, dedisti:
Eet nunc servat honos sedem tunus; ossaque nomen,
Hesperia in magna, (si qua est en gloria), signat.
At pius exequils Aeneas rite solutis,
Aggere composito tumuli, postquam alta quierunt
Aequora, tendit iter veils, portumque relinqult."
Aen., lib. vii., ver. 1, etc.
"Thou too, Cajeta, whose indulgent cares
Nursed the great chief, and form'd his tender years,
Expiring here (an ever-honor'd name!)
Adorn Hesperia with immortal fame:
Thy name survives, to please thy pensive ghost;
Thy sacred relics grace the Latian coast.
Soon as her funeral rites the prince had paid,
And raised a tomb in honor of the dead;
The sea subsiding, and the tempests o'er,
He spreads the flying sails, and leaves the shore."
Pitt. |
14 And Jacob [03290] set up [05324] a pillar [04676] in the place [04725] where he talked [01696] with him, even a pillar [04678] of stone [068]: and he poured [05258] a drink offering [05262] thereon, and he poured [03332] oil [08081] thereon.
11 And God [0430] said [0559] unto him, I am God [0410] Almighty [07706]: be fruitful [06509] and multiply [07235]; a nation [01471] and a company [06951] of nations [01471] shall be of thee, and kings [04428] shall come [03318] out of thy loins [02504];
12 And the land [0776] which I gave [05414] Abraham [085] and Isaac [03327], to thee I will give it [05414], and to thy seed [02233] after thee [0310] will I give [05414] the land [0776].
14 And went [03212] after [0310] the man [0376] of God [0430], and found [04672] him sitting [03427] under an oak [0424]: and he said [0559] unto him, Art thou the man [0376] of God [0430] that camest [0935] from Judah [03063]? And he said [0559], I am.
59 And they sent away [07971] Rebekah [07259] their sister [0269], and her nurse [03243], and Abraham's [085] servant [05650], and his men [0582].
31 There they buried [06912] Abraham [085] and Sarah [08283] his wife [0802]; there they buried [06912] Isaac [03327] and Rebekah [07259] his wife [0802]; and there I buried [06912] Leah [03812].
42 And these words [01697] of Esau [06215] her elder [01419] son [01121] were told [05046] to Rebekah [07259]: and she sent [07971] and called [07121] Jacob [03290] her younger [06996] son [01121], and said [0559] unto him, Behold, thy brother [0251] Esau [06215], as touching thee, doth comfort [05162] himself, purposing to kill [02026] thee.
43 Now therefore, my son [01121], obey [08085] my voice [06963]; and arise [06965], flee [01272] thou to Laban [03837] my brother [0251] to Haran [02771];
44 And tarry [03427] with him a few [0259] days [03117], until [0834] thy brother's [0251] fury [02534] turn away [07725];
45 Until thy brother's [0251] anger [0639] turn away [07725] from thee, and he forget [07911] that which thou hast done [06213] to him: then I will send [07971], and fetch [03947] thee from thence: why [04100] should I be deprived [07921] also of you both [08147] in one [0259] day [03117]?
46 And Rebekah [07259] said [0559] to Isaac [03327], I am weary [06973] of my life [02416] because [06440] of the daughters [01323] of Heth [02845]: if Jacob [03290] take [03947] a wife [0802] of the daughters [01323] of Heth [02845], such as these which are of the daughters [01323] of the land [0776], what good [04100] shall my life [02416] do me?
5 And Rebekah [07259] heard [08085] when Isaac [03327] spake [01696] to Esau [06215] his son [01121]. And Esau [06215] went [03212] to the field [07704] to hunt [06679] for venison [06718], and to bring [0935] it.
6 And Rebekah [07259] spake [0559] unto Jacob [03290] her son [01121], saying [0559], Behold, I heard [08085] thy father [01] speak [01696] unto Esau [06215] thy brother [0251], saying [0559],
7 Bring [0935] me venison [06718], and make [06213] me savoury meat [04303], that I may eat [0398], and bless [01288] thee before [06440] the LORD [03068] before [06440] my death [04194].
8 Now therefore, my son [01121], obey [08085] my voice [06963] according to that which [0834] I command [06680] thee.
9 Go [03212] now to the flock [06629], and fetch [03947] me from thence two [08147] good [02896] kids [01423] of the goats [05795]; and I will make [06213] them savoury meat [04303] for thy father [01], such as he loveth [0157]:
10 And thou shalt bring [0935] it to thy father [01], that he may eat [0398], and that [0834] he may bless [01288] thee before [06440] his death [04194].
11 And Jacob [03290] said [0559] to Rebekah [07259] his mother [0517], Behold, Esau [06215] my brother [0251] is a hairy [08163] man [0376], and I am a smooth [02509] man [0376]:
12 My father [01] peradventure will feel [04959] me, and I shall seem [05869] to him as a deceiver [08591]; and I shall bring [0935] a curse [07045] upon me, and not a blessing [01293].
13 And his mother [0517] said [0559] unto him, Upon me be thy curse [07045], my son [01121]: only obey [08085] my voice [06963], and go [03212] fetch [03947] me them.
14 And he went [03212], and fetched [03947], and brought [0935] them to his mother [0517]: and his mother [0517] made [06213] savoury meat [04303], such as his father [01] loved [0157].
15 And Rebekah [07259] took [03947] goodly [02532] raiment [0899] of her eldest [01419] son [01121] Esau [06215], which were with her in the house [01004], and put them upon [03847] Jacob [03290] her younger [06996] son [01121]:
16 And she put [03847] the skins [05785] of the kids [01423] of the goats [05795] upon his hands [03027], and upon the smooth [02513] of his neck [06677]:
17 And she gave [05414] the savoury meat [04303] and the bread [03899], which she had prepared [06213], into the hand [03027] of her son [01121] Jacob [03290].
59 And they sent away [07971] Rebekah [07259] their sister [0269], and her nurse [03243], and Abraham's [085] servant [05650], and his men [0582].