So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
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So he fled with all that he had. He rose up, passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
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So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.
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So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the River, and set his face toward the mountain of Gilead.
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Passages linked to Genesis 31:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Kings 12:17 Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it; and Hazael set his face to go up to Jerusalem.
- Genesis 2:14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
- Genesis 15:18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
- Genesis 31:23 He took his relatives with him, and pursued him seven days’ journey. He overtook him in the mountain of Gilead.
- Genesis 37:25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
- Genesis 46:28 Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.
- Numbers 24:1 When Balaam saw that it pleased Yahweh to bless Israel, he didn’t go, as at the other times, to use divination, but he set his face toward the wilderness.
- Numbers 32:1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead. Behold, the place was a place for livestock.
- Deuteronomy 3:12 This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites;
- Joshua 13:8-9 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them: from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;
- Joshua 24:2-3 Joshua said to all the people, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods. I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his offspring, and gave him Isaac.
- Judges 10:18 The people, the princes of Gilead, said to one another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”
- 1 Kings 17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
- Jeremiah 50:5 They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.’
- Luke 9:51-53 It came to pass, when the days were near that he should be taken up, he intently set his face to go to Jerusalem and sent messengers before his face. They went and entered into a village of the Samaritans, so as to prepare for him. They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set toward Jerusalem.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, Euphrates.
Or, Euphrates.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 31:21 So he fled with all that he…
Gen 31:21 So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face [toward] the mount Gilead.
Ver. 21. He passed over the river.] Euphrates; and so declined the ordinary way, that Laban might not overtake him; which yet he did. So God would have it, that he might have the greater glory of Jacob’s deliverance.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The river Euphrates, which lay between Mesopotamia and Chaldea,…
The river Euphrates, which lay between Mesopotamia and Chaldea, Gen 15:18, which for its largeness and famousness is oft called the river emphatically, as Exo 23:31; Jos 24:2,3, &c.
And set his face, i.e. resolutely directed his course. See Jer 50:5; Luk 9:51,53.
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Mount Gilead, a very high and long mountain beyond Jordan, adjoining to the mountain of Lebanon, at the foot of which there was a large and fruitful country, which from the mountain received the name of Gilead, Deu 34:1; Jer 8:22; 22:6. This mountain is here called Gilead by anticipation, as appears from Gen 31:48.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And it was told Laban on the third day,…
And it was told Laban on the third day, that Jacob was fled. Three days after Jacob was gone he had the report of it, by some means or another; by some of his neighbours, or servants left at home, and sooner he could not well have it, since the flock he went to shear was three days' distance from Jacob's, Gen 30:36.
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Genesis 31:23
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gen 31:23And he took his brethren with him,.... Some of his relations, the descendants of his father's brethren, the sons of Nahor, of whom there were seven, besides Bethuel; and who all perhaps lived in Haran the city of Nahor, see Gen 22:20; or some of his neighbours and acquaintance whom he might call to:
and pursued after him seven days' journey; which must be reckoned, not from Jacob's departure from Haran, but from Laban's; for Laban being three days' journey from thence, whither he had to return, after he received the news of Jacob being gone; Jacob must have travelled six days before Laban set out with his brethren from Haran; so that this was, as Ben Gerson conjectures, the thirteenth day of Jacob's travel; for Laban not having cattle to drive as Jacob, could travel as fast again as he, and do that in seven days which took up Jacob thirteen:
and they overtook him in the mount Gilead; said to be three hundred and eighty miles from Haran (e).
(e) Bunting's Travels, p. 72.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 21. Passed over the river] The Euphrates, as…
Verse 21. Passed over the river] The Euphrates, as the Targum properly notices. But how could he pass such a river with his flocks, c.? This difficulty does not seem to have struck critics in general. The rabbins felt it, and assert that God wrought a miracle for Jacob on this occasion, and that he passed over dry shod. As we know not in what other way he could pass, it is prudent to refer it to the power of God, which accompanied him through the whole of his journey. There might, however, have been fords well known to both Jacob and Laban, by which they might readily pass.
The mount Gilead.] What the ancient name of this mountain was, we know not but it is likely that it had not the name of Gilead till after the transaction mentioned Ge 31:47. The mountains of Gilead were eastward of the country possessed by the tribes of Reuben and Gad; and extended from Mount Hermon to the mountains of Moab.-Calmet. It is joined to Mount Libanus, and includes the mountainous region called in the New Testament Trachonitis. - Dodd.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain The river Euphrates. --- Galaad, as it was called…
The river Euphrates. --- Galaad, as it was called afterwards, ver. 48. (Menochius)
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 21. The river — Euphrates, near which he probably…
21. The river — Euphrates, near which he probably abode at that time. Mount Gilead — So called by anticipation here. Comp. Gen_31:47-48.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 21. the River] i.e. the Euphrates. See note on…
21. the River] i.e. the Euphrates. See note on Gen_15:18. Cf. Psa_72:8, “from the River unto the ends of the earth.” “Haran” (Gen_24:4) was Laban’s home.
toward the mountain of Gilead] i.e. towards the hill-country on the east side of Jordan. The name “Gilead” is here used in its widest application.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (21) The river.—The Euphrates.
(21) The river.—The Euphrates.
Mount Gilead.—Gilead, the region of rock, was the mountainous frontier between the Aramean and Canaanite races. The form of the word is so remote from ordinary Hebrew that we have in it, probably, a very old appellation of this region; and Jacob apparently plays upon it in his name Galeed (Gen_31:47).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain So (literally, and) he fled with (literally, and) all…
So (literally, and) he fled with (literally, and) all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, i.e. the Euphrates, which was called by preeminence the river (cf. 1Ki_4:21; Ezr_4:10, Ezr_4:16) and set his face toward the mount Gilead. dlGi, according to Gesenius, "the hard, stony region," from an unused quadrilateral root, signifying to be hard, though, according to the historian (by a slight change in the punctuation), "The hill, or heap of witness," from the transaction recorded in verses 45-47, which name it here proleptically receives, was not the mountain-range to the south of the Jahbok, now styled Jebel Jilad (Gesenius), Jebel-as-Salt (Robinson), Jebel-osha (Tristram), since Jacob had not yet crossed the river, but that upon its northern hank, called Jebel Ajlun, and situated near Mahanaim (Delitzsch, Keil, Kalisch, Porter).
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 31:21 The journey took the family from Haran southwest…
31:21 The journey took the family from Haran southwest to the land of Gilead, just east of the Jordan River in the north of today’s kingdom of Jordan.
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