36And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many thousands of Israel.
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The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants. …
And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
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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