Genesis 32:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

He addresseth himself to God as the God of his fathers: such was the sense he had of his own unworthiness, that he did not call God his own God, but a God in covenant with his ancestors. O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac. And this he could better plead, because the covenant was entailed upon him. Thou saidst unto me, Return unto thy country — He did not rashly leave his place with Laban, out of a foolish fondness for his native country; but in obedience to God's command.

Genesis 32:9

9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: