Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
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Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
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And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
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And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great; and He hath given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and men-servants and maid-servants, and camels and asses.
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Passages linked to Genesis 24:35 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 13:2 Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
- Genesis 24:1 Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.
- Psalms 107:38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.
- Proverbs 10:22 Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
- Matthew 6:33 But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
- Genesis 12:2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
- Genesis 12:16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
- Genesis 25:11 After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
- Genesis 26:12-14 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him. The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great. He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
- Psalms 18:35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.
- Proverbs 22:4 The result of humility and the fear of Yahweh is wealth, honor, and life.
- Genesis 49:25 even by the God of your father, who will help you, by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.
- Job 42:10-12 Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before. Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold. So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
- Psalms 112:3 Wealth and riches are in his house. His righteousness endures forever.
- 1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
- Job 1:3 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain To bless, signifieth here to enrich, or increase with…
To bless, signifieth here to enrich, or increase with substance, as the text in the same verse declareth.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 24:35 And the LORD hath blessed my master…
Gen 24:35 And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
Ver. 35. And the Lord hath blessed my master.] Ministers, Christ’s spokesmen, must likewise woo for Christ, by setting forth his great wealth; and not speak one word for Christ and two for themselves, as those did in Php 1:15. John Baptist was no such spokesman. {Joh 3:29} It is the special office of the ministry to lay Christ open, to hold up the tapestry, and let men see him as he is set forth, {Heb 1:2-3} that they may be sick of love; for otherwise, Christ is like to have but a cold suit of it.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Sarah, my master's wife,.... Who must be well…
And Sarah, my master's wife,.... Who must be well known to this family, by name at least, being, as is generally supposed, the sister of Milcah, Nahor's wife, and Bethuel's mother; the same
bare a son to my master when she was old; even when ninety years of age, Gen 17:17; this is mentioned because it was an extraordinary thing, and an instance of divine power and of the favour of God; and this son of their old age must be very dear unto Abraham, as it follows:
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and unto him hath he given all that he hath; by his will: Jarchi says, the servant had now the schedule of all in his hands, which he showed; but this is mere conjecture.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 35. hath blessed] Cf. Gen_24:1. The servant recounts the…
35. hath blessed] Cf. Gen_24:1. The servant recounts the wealth of Abraham of which we have heard in Gen_12:16, Gen_13:2. The servant’s first object is to represent that, from a worldly point of view, a marriage with Abraham’s son would be not only prudent, but desirable.
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