Genesis 35:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died It appears, on computation, that this event took place not less than a hundred and twenty-five years after Rebekah's marriage with Isaac. No doubt Rebekah was now dead, and this old nurse, who had come with her into Canaan, (Genesis 24:59,) and had tarried with her while she lived, was, after her death, taken into Jacob's family, in which, as she was a person of great prudence and piety, her presence and advice must have been very useful. Hence her death is recorded in Jacob's history, rather than in Isaac's. Now, while they were at Beth-el, she died, and died so much lamented, that the oak, under which she was buried was called Allon-bachuth, the oak of weeping.

Genesis 35:8

8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.b