Genesis 31:52 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵²This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 31:48
And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
Genesis 31:44-45
Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee. …

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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…

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

(vv. 52)

52. This heap be witness--Objects of nature were frequently thus spoken of. But over and above, there was a solemn appeal to God; and it is observable that there was a marked difference in the religious sentiments of the two. Laban spake of the God of Abraham and Nahor, their common ancestors; but Jacob, knowing that idolatry had crept in among that branch of the family, swore by the “fear of his…