Genesis 28:4 - John Wesley's Notes

Genesis 28:4

2 ^aArise, go to ^bPadan Aram, to the house of ^cBethuel your mother’s father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of ^dLaban your mother’s brother.

3 “May ^aGod Almighty bless you,
And make you ^bfruitful and multiply you,
That you may be an assembly of peoples;

4 And give you ^athe blessin¹g of Abraham,
To you and your descendants with you,
That you may inherit the land
^bIn which you are a stranger,
Which God gave to Abraham.”

5 So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Padan Aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

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6 Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Padan Aram to take himself a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,”

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Genesis 28:3-4

Two great promises Abraham was blessed with, and Isaac here entails them both upon Jacob. The promise of heirs, God make thee fruitful and multiply thee. Through his loins that people should descend from Abraham which should be numerous as the stars of heaven. Through his loins should descend from Abraham that person in whom all the families of the earth should be blessed. The promise of an inheritance for those heirs, Genesis 28:4. That thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings - (So the Hebrew) Canaan was hereby entailed upon the seed of Jacob, exclusive of the seed of Esau. Isaac was now sending Jacob away into a distant country to settle there for some time; and lest this should look like disinheriting him, he here confirms the settlement of it upon him. This promise looks as high as heaven, of which Canaan was a type. That was the better country which Jacob, with the other patriarchs, had in his eye when he confessed himself a stranger and pilgrim on the earth, Hebrews 11:16.

Other John Wesley's Notes entries containing Genesis 28:4:

Genesis 27:27-31
Genesis 28:3-4

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