Genesis 32:13-20 - The Biblical Illustrator

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A present for Esau.

Jacob’s offering to Esau

1. Prudent disposition of presents must follow the preparation of them.

2. Good servants are fit helps unto good masters for ordering their affairs.

3. Order is as needful as matter unto prudence to pacifiy enraged enemies.

4. Wise masters must give instructions to servants for the prosperity of their own affairs.

5. Lawful instructions from masters must be strictly observed by servants.

6. Humble presentations of saints to lords of the world is comely to procure peace.

7. Frequent and gradual expressions of such goodness and humility is most likely to overcome them.

8. Faces of cruel men are hard to be reconciled unto the faces of the righteous.

9. By foregoing gifts and preventing grace from God, saints may gel a good look from such men.

10. Jacob and Jacob’s children are forced so to seek peace in the world. (G. Hughes, B. D.)

Related Commentaries of Genesis 32:13

Genesis 32:13-20

13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;

14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,

15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.

16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.

17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?

18 Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.

19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.d