Genesis 31:6

your father: repeated at beginning of next verse by the Figure of speech Anadiplosis.

Related Commentaries of Genesis 31:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- Jacob’s Flight from Haran 19. תרפים t e rāpı̂ym , Teraphim. This word occurs fifteen times in the Old Testament. It appears three time...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jacob's Flight. This section is, for the most part, from E, Genesis 31:1 ; Genesis 31:3 are from J, Genesis 31:18 (after cattle) from P. Jaco...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. Ye know that ... I have served. Having stated his strong grounds of dissatisfac...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jacob's Return from Haran 4-13. Jacob attributes his prosperity to God's favour. 14-16. Rachel and Leah point out that their father had no clai...
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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jacob Leaves Laban Genesis 31:1-21 Jacob was a remarkable mixture. He had an eminently religious nature, and had intimate dealings with God. No...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the midst of Jacob's success the second divine communication came to him, commanding him to return to the land of his fathers and giving him the p...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Sweet thought! When we can trace all our mercies into God's gifts, and all events which concern us, into God's ordination. See Genesis 45:7-8 .
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

LIGHTS AND SHADOWS ‘With all my power I have served your father: and your father bath deceived me.’ Genesis 31:6-7 I. There is a reason for...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And ye know, that with all my power I have served your father. With all faithfulness and uprightness; with all diligence and industry; with all wis...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. Ver. 6. With all my power I have served. ] The word translated power signifieth that...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JACOB'S SECRET DEPARTURE The prosperity of Jacob could not but awaken the envy of Laban's sons. Jacob had gained all of this through his caring fo...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jacob's Departure. B. C. 1739. 1 And h...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

With all my power, both of my mind and body, as I would have done for myself, as became a faithful servant to do.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jacob is Commanded by Yahweh to Return Home and Tries to Slip Away (31:1-21). Genesis 31:1-2 ‘And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying,...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 31:7 . Changed my wages ten times.] Probably to be understood as a round number, meaning any number of times—as often as...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 31:1 . He heard the words of Laban's sons. Three causes are assigned for Jacob's abrupt removal: first, the bitter reproaches of Laban's s...
The Biblical Illustrator

And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers Jacob’s departure for Canaan I. IT WAS HASTENED BY PERSECUTION. II. IT WAS...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 31:1 And he —Jacob had now served twenty years with Laban, and must accordingly have been in his ninety-seventh or seve...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Plan to Flee
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And ye know that with all my power I have served your father. As Jacob had emphasized his faithfulness over against Laban, Genesis 30:30-33 , so he...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 31:38-42 Genesis 30:29 Ephesians 6:5-8 Colossians 3:22-25 Titus 2:9 Titus 2:10 1 Peter 2:18

⁶ And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.

Related Commentaries of Genesis 31:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

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

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

Genesis 31:6