Genesis 26:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

saw certainly. Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6), for emphasis. Hebrew "seeing we saw". Compare Genesis 2:16 " freely eat"; Genesis 27:30 " scarce gone out"; Genesis 43:3 " solemnly protest"; Genesis 43:7 "asked us straitly ", "could we certainly know"; Genesis 43:20 "came indeed down"; Exodus 5:23 "not delivered us at all "; Genesis 18:18 "wilt surely wear away"; Genesis 21:5 "shall plainly say"; Job 37:2 "hear attentively "; Numbers 22:17; Numbers 22:37 "promote thee to very great honour". honouring. will honour thee; Genesis 24:10 " altogether blessed", Hebrew "blessing thou hast blessed". Numbers 26:65; Numbers 30:12 " utterly destroyed"; Genesis 23:11; Genesis 24:10 " altogether blessed".

Genesis 26:28

28 And they said, We sawh certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;