Genesis 29:9

And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she kept them. Rachel was a shepherdess of her father, just as the virgin daughters of the Arabians are to this day.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

- Jacob’s Marriage 6. רחל rāchēl , Rachel, “a ewe.” 16. לאה lê'âh , Leah, “wearied.” 24. זלפה zı̂lpâh , Zilpah, “drop?” 29....
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jacob Serves Seven Years for Rachel. Laban Substitutes Leah and Secures Fourteen Years'service in Exchange for the Two. Apart from bits of P ( Gene...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

her father's sheep. Shepherds usually slaves, younger sons, or daughters. Compare David, 1 Samuel 17:13-15 . Exodus 2:16 ; Exodus 2:17 . Note exc...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them. Rachel came with her father's sheep - So we find that young...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them. While he yet spake ... Rachel came. Among the pasto...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jacob in Mesopotamia with Laban The divine care and blessing promised to Jacob at Bethel ( Genesis 28:15 ) are illustrated in the narrative of the...
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

Rachel came with her father’s sheep. — Comp. Exodus 2:16 ; and so in modern times Mr. Malan saw “the sheik’s daughter, the beautiful and well-favo...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jacob in Laban's Home Genesis 29:1-20 Well might Jacob lift up his feet! See margin. When we are sure of God we receive strength that enables u...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Pursuing his journey after his experience at Luz, now called Beth-el, Jacob came into "the land of the children of the east." Here the next twenty ye...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And while he yet spake with them ,.... While Jacob was thus discoursing with the shepherds: Rachel came with her father's sheep ; to water them at...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them. Ver. 9. For she kept them. ] Leah might be left at hom...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For she kept them Having, no doubt, servants under her who performed the meaner and more laborious offices, and whom it was her place to oversee. W...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JACOB MEETS RACHEL AND LABAN After many days of travel Jacob came to the land of his relatives. He could not phone to find his directions to their...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Rachel's Humility and Industry. B. C. 1760....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘While he yet spoke with them Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she looked after them. And so it happened that when Jacob saw Rachel, the daug...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 29:1 . Went on his journey.] Heb. Lifted up his feet. (See Psalms 74:3 .) The idea is that he journeyed with alacrity...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 29:1 . Jacob went on his journey. Our version fails here to express the lively sense of the Hebrew, as in most versions. Levabit pedes;...
The Biblical Illustrator

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came into the land of the people of the east Jacob’s experience on his journey I. THAT GOD’S PRESENCE WITH...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 29:1 Then Jacob went on his journey (literally, lifted up his feet—a graphic description of traveling. Inspired by n...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Rachel. Genesis 24:15 Exodus 2:15 Exodus 2:16 Exodus 2:21 Song of Solomon 1:7 Song of Solomon 1:8 for she kept them.
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

She kept her father's sheep — She took the care of them, having servants under her that were employed about them when he understood that this was h...

⁹ And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them.

Related Commentaries of Genesis 29:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

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

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Genesis 29:9