Genesis 31:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.

Genesis 31:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 30:29
And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with me.
Colossians 3:22-25
Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: …
Genesis 31:38-42
This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. …
Titus 2:9-10
Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; …
Ephesians 6:5-8
Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-16)

Jacob is here taking up a resolution immediately to quit his uncle’s service, to take what he had and go back to Canaan. This resolution he took up upon a just provocation, by divine direction, and with the advice and consent of his wives. I. Upon a just provocation; for Laban and his sons had become very cross and ill-natured towards him, so that he could not stay among them with safety or satisf…

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

(vv. 6)

6. ye know that ... I have served your father--Having stated his strong grounds of dissatisfaction with their father’s conduct and the ill requital he had got for all his faithful services, he informed them of the blessing of God that had made him rich notwithstanding Laban’s design to ruin him; and finally, of the command from God he had received to return to his own country, that they might not…