Genesis 15:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,

Genesis 15:19 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Numbers 24:21-22
And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock. …

Topics

Abraham Canaan Chanaan Condescension of God Generals, Distinguished Kenites Kenizzites Land

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-21)

Here is, I. The covenant ratified (Gen. 15:17); the sign which Abram desired was given, at length, when the sun had gone down, so that it was dark; for that was a dark dispensation. 1. The smoking furnace signified the affliction of his seed in Egypt. They were there in the iron furnace (Deut. 4:20), the furnace of affliction (Isa. 48:10), labouring in the very fire. They were there in the smoke,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 19)

9-21. Take me an heifer, &c.--On occasions of great importance, when two or more parties join in a compact, they either observe precisely the same rites as Abram did, or, where they do not, they invoke the lamp as their witness. According to these ideas, which have been from time immemorial engraven on the minds of Eastern people, the Lord Himself condescended to enter into covenant with Abram. Th…