Genesis 29:29

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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

Bilhah. This was strictly in accordance with the Code of Khammurabi, 145. See App-15.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. Gave to Rachel ... Bilhah ... to be her maid. A father in good circ...
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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel Genesis 29:21-35 The chief lesson of this paragraph is its illustration of the awful nemesis which accompanies wr...
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 Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. As he had given Leah an handmaid he gave Rachel another; and this in the...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid. Ver. 29. Bilhah his handmaid. ] Who afterward played false play with her...
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

Jacob's Marriage. B. C. 1753. 15 And...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And Laban gave Bilhah his handmaid to his daughter Rachel to be her handmaid.' Once again Laban provides a handmaid for his daughter from his hous...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 29:31 . Leah was hated.] The word is to be understood relatively, not absolutely. By the usage of the Heb. to be hated,...
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

He loved also Rachel more than Leah Leah and Rachel: their trims and compensations I. THEIR TRIALS. Leah was “hated “ ( Genesis 29:31 ), i.e. ,...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 29:15 And Laban said unto Jacob (probably at the month's end), Because thou art —literally, is it not that . thou a...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her maid. This fact is also expressly stated on account of later developments.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Bilhah. See on ver. Genesis 29:24 Genesis 30:3-8 Genesis 35:22 Genesis 35:25 Genesis 37:2

²⁹ And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.

Related Commentaries of Genesis 29:29

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

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

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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 29:29