40And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29-53)We have here the making up of the marriage between Isaac and Rebekah. It is related very largely and particularly, even to the minute circumstances, which, we should think, might have been spared, while other things of great moment and mystery (as the story of Melchizedek) are related in few words. Thus God conceals that which is curious from the wise and prudent, reveals to babes that which is co…
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