Genesis 15:13-17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

Smoking furnace. See Deuteronomy 4:20; Isaiah 48:10. Burning lamp. See Isaiah 62:1; Exodus 3:2. The former intimating affliction: the latter comfort. But do not both mean, in passing between the pieces of sacrifice, that Jesus is the one all-sufficient offering by which acceptance is found? See Psalms 50:5; Judges 13:23.--passing between the parts of the sacrifice was an ancient form of confirming the most solemn covenants. Jeremiah 34:18-19. The burning lamp, (or lamp of fire), was a symbol of the divine presence, and by this probably the sacrifice was consumed. Leviticus 9:24; 1 Kings 18:38; Judges 6:21

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Genesis 15:13-17

13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burninga lamp that passed between those pieces.