1And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
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And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. …
And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)The divine precept is, In all thy ways acknowledge God ; and the promise annexed to it is, He shall direct thy paths . Jacob has here a very great concern before him, not only a journey, but a removal, to settle in another country, a change which was very surprising to him (for he never had any other thoughts than to live and die in Canaan), and which would be of great consequence to his family fo…
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