15And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them? …
And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-24)Here is, I. Leah fruitful again, after she had, for some time, left off bearing. Jacob, it should seem, associated more with Rachel than with Leah. The law of Moses supposes it a common case that, if a man had two wives, one would be beloved and the other hated, Deut. 21:15. But at length Rachel’s strong passions betrayed her into a bargain with Leah that Jacob should return to her apartment. Reub…
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