Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
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Gill's Exposition
Look unto Abraham your father,.... Not only the father of the Jewish nation, but of all them that believe: this explains what is meant by the rock, in the former verse, who is to be looked unto for…
Barnes' Notes
Look unto Abraham - What was figuratively expressed in the former verse is here expressed literally. They were directed to remember that God had taken Abraham and Sarah from a distant land, and that…
Observe, 1. How the people of God are here described, to whom the word of this consolation is sent and who are called upon to hearken to it, Isa 51:1. They are such as follow after righteousness, such…
Cambridge Bible
The explanation of the figure.
I called him alone lit. "as one," i.e. a single individual.
blessed him, and increased him Cf. Gen 12:2-3; Gen 22:17. The strict rendering of the Massoretic text would…
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