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A Prelude to Prayer
Commentators like Calvin and Spurgeon explain that Jacob's decision to send his family across the river was not an act of abandonment. Instead, he was intentionally creating solitude. In a moment of intense fear, he made space for a dedicated, all-night session of prayer, demonstrating that in our greatest trials, we should deliberately seek out time to be alone with God.
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Albert Barnes
On Genesis 32:1–32
18th Century
Theologian
Genesis 32:3: מחנים machănāyı̂m — Machanaim, “two camps.”
Genesis 32:22: יבק yaboq
Charles Ellicott
On Genesis 32:22
19th Century
Bishop
The ford Jabbok. —Hebrew, the ford of the Jabbok. This river, now called the Wady Zerba or Blue Torrent, later formed the…
Charles Spurgeon
On Genesis 32:22–24
19th Century
Preacher
And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. And he took…
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John Calvin
On Genesis 32:22
16th Century
Theologian
And he rose up that night. After he has prayed to the Lord and arranged his plans, he now takes confidence and meets the danger. By this e…
John Gill
On Genesis 32:22
17th Century
Pastor
And he rose up that night
In the middle of it, for it was long before break of day, as appears from ([Reference Gene…
Matthew Henry
On Genesis 32:9–23
17th Century
Minister
Times of fear should be times of prayer: whatever causes fear, should drive us to our knees, to our God. Jacob had lately seen his guards of angels…