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Genesis 22:23

Genesis 22:23
And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And his concubine, whose name was Reumah,.... Not an harlot, but a secondary wife, who was under the proper and lawful wife, and a sort of a head servant in the family, and chiefly kept for the…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Genesis 22:1-24

- Abraham Was Tested 2. מריה morı̂yâh, “Moriah”; Samaritan: מוראה môr'âh; “Septuagint,” ὑψηλή hupsēlē, Onkelos, “worship.” Some take the word to be a simple derivative, as the Septuagint and…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Bethuel begat Rebekah - Who afterward became the wife of Isaac.

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Genesis 22:20-24

This is recorded here, 1. To show that though Abraham saw his own family highly dignified with peculiar privileges, admitted into covenant, and blessed with the entail of the promise, yet he did not…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Bethuel See Gen 24:15.

Rebekah See chap. 24. No place, or clan, of this name is mentioned in the O.T.