Genesis 35

Rachel cried, Give me children, or I die (Genesis 30:1). God let her have a child, but it cost her her life (Genesis 35:18). Israel not content with manna (angels' food) they must have quails to their manna, God punished them by letting them have their will (Numbers 11:31): Ther…

And it is a fault in many that they love to hear sermons, which are beyond their reach, in which they stand and wonder at the preacher: and plain preaching is little respected of such. The occasion of Paul's desire is in these words, I doubt of you, or thus, I am in perplexity f…

Now when it is said that Job sent and sanctified them, it is not meant as if Job did infuse holy habits into his children, as if it were in his power to make them gracious; Indeed that is impossible, it is only the work of the Spirit of God, no man can come at the spirit of anot…

This preservation was in some instances especially very remarkable; those instances that we have an account of, wherein the people of the land were greatly irritated and provoked; as they were by Simeon and Levi's treatment of the Shechemites, as you may see in Genesis 34:30 etc…

More directly, and with better success did Jacob redress the superstition, or rather idolatry of his wife Rachel, as may be gathered by comparing (Genesis 31:19, 34; Genesis 35:2, 4). A brother at large must not suffer sin to lie on his brother: much less may husband or wife the…

2. In many things there is not a common equity: for the husband may command his wife, but not she him. 3. Even in those things wherein there is a common equity, there is not an equality: for the husband has ever even in all things a superiority: as if there be any difference eve…

It is said that Naomi became nurse to Ruth's child: now Naomi was old, long before this she was past child-bearing, without a husband for many years: how then was it possible that she should give suck? She was therefore a dry nurse, as other nurses mentioned in Scripture (Genesi…

Herein lies a main difference between the usage of men's bodies which after death shall be raised again, and beasts that utterly perish. Jacob's care of burying his mother's nurse is expressly mentioned, in way of commendation (Genesis 35:8). §. 33. Of neglect of servants in sic…

1. That good, and some of the best of men have been guilty hereof, and have suffered hereby; to instance but in two: the first is Jacob, who was exceeding tender of telling a lie, though it were to get a blessing (Genesis 27:11-12). But this Jacob was so forgetful of, and did so…

When we unkindly repel the motions of it: The spirit sometimes whispers in our ears, and calls to us as God did to Jacob, Genesis 35:1. Arise, go to Bethel.

The Arabic: my soul departed, I died. So is death described by the like phrase (Genesis 35:18): Rachel's soul was in departing, for she died. And when men are stricken with sudden fear, the heart is said to go out; so (Genesis 42:28): the soul of Joseph's brothers departed — tha…