When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
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When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.
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And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
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And He left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
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Passages linked to Genesis 17:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 18:33 Yahweh went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.
- Genesis 35:9-15 God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him. God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel. God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body. The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you I will give the land.” God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him. Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it. Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.
- Genesis 17:3 Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,
- Exodus 20:22 Yahweh said to Moses, “This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
- Numbers 12:6-8 He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream. My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house. With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”
- Deuteronomy 5:4 Yahweh spoke with you face to face on the mountain out of the middle of the fire,
- Judges 6:21 Then Yahweh’s angel stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then Yahweh’s angel departed out of his sight.
- Judges 13:20 For when the flame went up toward the sky from off the altar, Yahweh’s angel ascended in the flame of the altar. Manoah and his wife watched; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
- John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.
- John 10:30 I and the Father are one.”
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 22. God went up from Abraham This expression contains…
22. God went up from Abraham This expression contains a profitable doctrine, namely, that Abraham certainly knew this vision to be from God; for the ascent here spoken implies as much. And it is necessary for the pious to be fully assured that what they hear proceeds from God, in order that they may not be carried hither and thither but may depend alone upon heaven. And whereas God now, when he has spoken to us, does not openly ascend to heaven before our eyes; this ought to diminish nothing from the certainty of our faith; because a full manifestation of Him has been made in Christ, with which it is right that we should be satisfied. Besides, although God does not daily ascend upwards in a visible form, yet, in this his majesty is not less resplendent, that he raises us upwards by transforming us into his own image. Further, he gives sufficient authority to his word, when he seals it upon our hearts by his spirit.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 17:22 And he left off talking with him,…
Gen 17:22 And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
Ver. 22. And he left off talking with him.] As man with his friend. Such honour have all his saints. Oh, speak it when I am gone, and preach it at my funeral, God dealeth familiarly with man, said that heavenly spark, now ready to be extinct {a} St Paul calls prayer εντευξιν, an entreparlance with God, {1Ti 2:1} and επερωτημα, the confident interrogatory or rejoinder of a good conscience toward God. {1Pe 3:21} The Persian monarchs held it a piece of their silly glory to keep themselves from their greatest subjects. {Est 4:11} And Jupiter’s image at Crete was made without ears. Plutarch gives the reason, Non enim convenit audiri ab eo quenquam, qui omnium rerum sit Dominus atqui princeps . A pretty plea for Baal! He is too great to talk with men. Our God thinks not himself so. He solicits suitors, and loves to be, interchangcably, solicited by them.
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{a} Mr. John Holland, B.D. See my True Treas., p. 373.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain To heaven in a visible manner, as it seems…
To heaven in a visible manner, as it seems he conversed with him in some visible shape. Compare Gen 35:13; Jdg 13:20.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he left off talking; with him,.... After he…
And he left off talking; with him,.... After he had finished all he had to say to him at this time. It was great condescension in the divine Being to talk with a creature; it was wonderful grace and kindness to make such promises to him, as he did, and indulge him with answers of prayer and communion with him; but the highest enjoyments of God here are not lasting; uninterrupted communion with him is reserved for another world:
and God went up from Abraham; from the earth, where he had been with Abraham, and ascended above him up to heaven, in a visible, and very likely in an human form, in which he descended: the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan paraphrase it, "the glory of the Lord", the glorious Shechinah, the Lord of life and glory.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 22. God went up from Abraham.] Ascended evidently…
Verse 22. God went up from Abraham.] Ascended evidently before him, so that he had the fullest proof that it was no human being, no earthly angel or messenger, that talked with him; and the promise of a son in the course of a single year, at this set time in the next year, Ge 17:21, which had every human probability against it, was to be the sure token of the truth of all that had hitherto taken place, and the proof that all that was farther promised should be fulfilled in its due time. Was it not in nearly the same way in which the Lord went up from Abraham, that Jesus Christ ascended to heaven in the presence of his disciples? Lu 24:51.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 22. God went up from Abraham — These words…
22. God went up from Abraham — These words imply some open epiphany. Probably the Angel of the Lord appearing and ascending, as in the case of Manoah. Jdg_13:20.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 22. God went up] This expression, which occurs also…
22. God went up] This expression, which occurs also in Gen_35:13 (P), means that God returned to His dwelling-place, which the Israelite believed to be above the Heavens.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And he (i.e. God) left off talking with him…
And he (i.e. God) left off talking with him (Abraham), and God went up into heaven (vide Gen_35:13) from Abraham.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 When he had finished talking with him
When he had finished talking with him
"When God had finished talking with Abraham"
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God went up from Abraham
"God left Abraham"
every male among the men of Abraham's household
"every human male in Abraham's household" or "every male person in Abraham's household." It refers to human males of all ages: babies, boys, and men.
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circumcise
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