Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Smoking furnace and a burning lamp - Probably the smoking furnace might be designed as an emblem of the sore afflictions of the Israelites in Egypt; but the burning lamp was certainly the symbol of the Divine presence, which, passing between the pieces, ratified the covenant with Abram, as the following verse immediately states.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Genesis 15:17:
Exodus 6:28
1 Chronicles 7:21
Psalms 104:2
Jeremiah 34:18
Micah 7:20
Matthew 5:22
Acts 2:3
Acts 2:3
Acts 2:17
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