Genesis 32:9 - John Wesley's Notes

Genesis 32:9

7 So Jacob was greatly afraid and ^adistressed; and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks and herds and camels, into two companies.

8 And he said, “If Esau comes to the one company and¹ attacks it, then the other company which is left will escape.”

9 ^aThen Jacob said, ^b“O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the Lord ^cwho said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your family, and I will deal well with you’:

10 I am not worthy of the least of all the ^amercies and of all the truth which You have shown Your servant; for I crossed over this Jordan with ^bmy staff, and now I have become two companies.

11 ^aDeliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and¹ attack me and ^bthe mother with the children.

12 For ^aYou said, ‘I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the ^bsand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’ ”

13 So he lodged there that same night, and took what¹ came to his hand as ^aa present for Esau his brother:

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He addresseth himself to God as the God of his fathers: such was the sense he had of his own unworthiness, that he did not call God his own God, but a God in covenant with his ancestors. O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac. And this he could better plead, because the covenant was entailed upon him. Thou saidst unto me, Return unto thy country - He did not rashly leave his place with Laban, out of a foolish fondness for his native country; but in obedience to God's command.

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