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Genesis 31:16 KJV
Genesis · chapter 31 · verse 16
For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.Genesis 31:16 · King James Version
Genesis 31:16 in context
14And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father’s house?
15Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
16For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children’s: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
17Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;
18And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- children'sbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- richesʻôsherwealthH6239 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- takennâtsalto snatch away, whether in a good or a bad senseH5337 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
- Godʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary senseH430 →
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Jacob is here taking up a resolution immediately to quit his uncle's service, to take what he had and go back to Canaan. This resolution he took up upon a just provocation, by divine direction, and with the advice and consent of his wives. I. Upon a just provocation;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-16