30And he said unto him, I will not go; but I will depart to mine own land, and to my kindred.
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Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went.
And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law. …
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29-36)Here is, I. An account of what passed between Moses and Hobab, now upon this advance which the camp of Israel made towards Canaan. Some think that Hobab was the same with Jethro, Moses’s father-in-law, and that the story, Exod. 18:1-27, should come in here; it seems more probable that Hobab was the son of Jethro, alias Reuel, or Raguel (Exod. 2:18), and that when the father, being aged, went to hi…
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