Genesis 33:4

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- Jacob and Esau Meet 17. סכת sûkkôth , Sukkoth, “booths,” consisting of poles forming a roof covered with branches, leaves, or grass. 19...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 33. The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau. Genesis 33:1-17 is in the main from J, but bits of E have been woven in ( Genesis 33:5 b ,...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4. And Esau ran to meet him. That Esau meets his brother with unexpected benevolence and kindness, is the effect of the special favor of God....
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 48 RECONCILIATION OF ESAU AND JACOB Genesis 33:4 . And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him:...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. Esau ran to meet him - How sincere and genuine is th...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him— They who are more intimately acquainted, or of equal age or dignity, among the Easterns, mu...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. Esau ran ... fell on his neck, and kissed hi...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1-16. Jacob and Esau meet peaceably. 17-20. Jacob settles in Canaan.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jacob's prayer ( Genesis 32:11 ) is answered, and Esau, whatever his original purpose, now shows his brother only goodwill and affection.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC ( Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29 ). THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS. Abraham begat Isaac — The Tôldôth in its original form gav...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Esau ran to meet him. — Whatever may have been Esau’s intention when he started, no sooner does he see his brother than the old times of their chil...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jacob and Esau Reconciled Genesis 33:1-17 Many things, like this meeting with Esau, are worse in anticipation than in actuality. The brothers w...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The morning broke and Jacob-or Israel as he had now become- went forward to meet Esau. How strange a mixture there was in the make-up of this man is...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Esau ran to meet him ,.... If he rode on any creature, which is likely, he alighted from it on sight of his brother Jacob, and to express his jo...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. Ver. 4. And kissed him. ] The word kissed hath a...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Esau ran to meet him Not in anger, but in love: so wonderfully and suddenly had God, who hath the hearts of all men in his hands, and can turn them...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

THE BROTHERS MEET AGAIN Jacob's trepidation is not eased when he sees that Esau has passed by all the droves and is coming with his four hundred m...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jacob's Interview with Esau. B. C. 1739. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.' Esau had dismounted which must have been a great r...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 33:3 . Bowed himself to the ground seven times.] “He bowed himself after the Eastern fashion, bending the body so that t...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Genesis 33:1-2 . And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 33:3 . Bowed himself to the ground. He then rose and walked a little farther, and bowed again; so he did seven times until he approached h...
The Biblical Illustrator

And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him The reconciliation of Jacob and Esau I. IT ILLUSTRATES THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE CHARACTERS OF THE...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 33:1 , Genesis 33:2 And Jacob , having the day before dispatched his conciliatory gift to Esau, turned his back up...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jacob's meeting with Esau
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept. If Esau had still been cherishing his old grudge whe...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

embraced. Genesis 32:28 Genesis 43:30 Genesis 43:34 Genesis 45:2 Genesis 45:15 Job 2:12 Nehemiah 1:11 Psalms 34:4 Proverbs 16:7 Pr...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And Esau ran to meet him — Not in passion but in love. Embraced him, fell on his neck and kissed him — God hath the hearts of all men in his hands,...

⁴ And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.

Related Commentaries of Genesis 33:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Genesis 33:4