22And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him. …
And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place.
For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-22)Here is, I. The promise made to Abraham of a son by Sarai , that son in whom the promise made to him should be fulfilled, that he should be the father of many nations; for she also shall be a mother of nations, and kings of people shall be of her , Gen. 17:16. Note, 1. God reveals the purposes of his good-will to his people by degrees. God had told Abraham long before that he should have a son, bu…
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