48And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
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And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them; …
From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:
And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 43-55)We have here the compromising of the matter between Laban and Jacob. Laban had nothing to say in reply to Jacob’s remonstrance: he could neither justify himself nor condemn Jacob, but was convicted by his own conscience of the wrong he had done him; and therefore desires to hear no more of the matter He is not willing to own himself in a fault, nor to ask Jacob’s forgiveness, and make him satisfac…
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