Genesis 35:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

In departing; or, in going out; namely, out of the body, as Psalms 146:4, which is an argument of the soul's immortality, especially if compared with Ecclesiastes 12:7. From which places, laid together, we learn the two terms of the journey, whence it goes, and whither it goes. Benjamin; either as near and dear and precious to him as his right hand, which is both more useful and more honourable than the left; see Psalms 80:17; or instead of his right hand, the staff, stay, and comfort of his old age.

Genesis 35:18

18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni:d but his father called him Benjamin.