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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Gill's Exposition
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…
- Jacob’s Flight from Haran 19. תרפים terāpı̂ym, Teraphim. This word occurs fifteen times in the Old Testament. It appears three times in this chapter, and nowhere else in the Pentateuch. It is…
Adam Clarke
Passed over the river - The Euphrates, as the Targum properly notices. But how could he pass such a river with his flocks, etc.? This difficulty does not seem to have struck critics in general. The…
Here is, I. Jacob's flight from Laban. We may suppose he had been long considering of it, and casting about in his mind respecting it; but when now, at last, God had given him positive orders to go,…
Cambridge Bible
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…
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