And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
Ver. 3. God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz.] The truly thankful keep calendars and catalogues of God's gracious dealings with them, and delight, to their last, to recount and reckon them up; not in the lump only, and by wholesale, as it were, but by particular enumeration upon every good occasion; setting them forth one by one, as here, and ciphering them up, as David's word is. ספר , Psa 9:1 We should he like civet boxes, which still retain the scent when the civet is taken out of them. See Psa 145:1-2 Exodus 18:8 .