Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Lift up now thine eyes . . . all the land which thou seest—So extensive a survey of the country, in all directions, can be obtained from no other point in the neighborhood; and those plains and hills, then lying desolate before the eyes of the solitary patriarch, were to be peopled with a mighty nation "like the dust of the earth in number," as they were in Solomon's time (I Kings 4:20).
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