Genesis 32:9

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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:

14 two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

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Adam Clarke

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Genesis 32:9

O God of my father Abraham, etc. - This prayer is remarkable for its simplicity and energy; and it is a model too for prayer, of which it contains the essential constituents: - 1. Deep self-abasement. 2. Magnification of God' s mercy. 3. Deprecation of the evil to which he was exposed. 4. Pleading the promises that God had made to him. And, 5. Taking encouragement from what God had already wrought.

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