Teks -- Genesis 24:7 (NET)

24:7 “The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, promised me with a solemn oath, ‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ He will send his angel before you so that you may find a wife for my son from there.

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Wesley: Gen 24:7

God's angels are ministering spirits, sent forth, not only for the protection, but guidance of the heirs of promise, Heb 1:14.

Wesley: Gen 24:7 - He shall send his angel before thee

And then thou shalt speed well.

Clarke: Gen 24:7 - The Lord God, etc.

The Lord God, etc. - He expresses the strongest confidence in God, that the great designs for which he had brought him from his own kindred to propagate the true religion in the earth would be accomplished; and that therefore, when earthly instruments failed, heavenly ones should be employed. He shall send his angel, probably meaning the Angel of the Covenant, of whom see Gen 15:7.

Calvin: Gen 24:7 - The Lord God of heaven

7.The Lord God of heaven. By a twofold argument Abraham infers, that what he is deliberating respecting the marriage of his son will, by the grace of God, have a prosperous issue. First, because God had not led him forth in vain from his own country into a foreign land; and secondly, because God had not falsely promised to give the land, in which he was dwelling as a stranger, to his seed. He might also with propriety be confident that his design should succeed, because he had undertaken it only by the authority, and, as it were, under the auspices of God; for it was his exclusive regard for God which turned away his mind from the daughters of Canaan. He may, however, be thought to have inferred without reason that God would give his son a wife from that country and kindred to which he himself had bidden farewell. But whereas he had left his relatives only at the divine command, he hopes that God will incline their minds to be propitious and favorable to him. Meanwhile he concludes, from the past kindnesses of God, that his hand would not fail him in the present business; as if he would say, “I, who at the command of God left my country, and have experienced his continued help in my pilgrimage, do not doubt that he will also be the guide of thy journey, because it is in reliance on his promise that I lay upon thee this injunction.” He then describes the mode in which assistance would be granted; namely, that God would send his angel, for he knew that God helps his servants by the ministration of angels, of which he had already received many proofs. By calling God the God of heaven, he celebrates that divine power which was the ground of his confidence.

Defender: Gen 24:7 - his angel

Angels perform many services on behalf of God's people (Heb 1:14). This passage indicates one such service is guiding the steps of the believer and preparing the way before him in answer to prayer."

TSK: Gen 24:7 - Lord // took // which spake // angel

Lord : Ezr 1:2; Dan 2:44; Jon 1:9; Rev 11:13

took : Gen 12:1-7

which spake : Gen 13:15, Gen 15:18, Gen 17:8, Gen 22:16-18, Gen 26:3, Gen 26:4, Gen 26:24; Exo 13:5, Exo 32:13; Num 14:16, Num 14:30; Num 32:11; Deu 1:8, Deu 34:4; Jos 1:6; Jdg 2:1; Act 7:5; Heb 11:9

angel : Exo 23:20-23, Exo 33:2; Psa 32:8, Psa 34:7, Psa 73:24, Psa 103:20; Pro 3:5, Pro 3:6; Isa 63:9; Heb 1:14

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Poole: Gen 24:7 - He shall send his angel before thee // Thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence

He shall send his angel before thee to direct and succeed thee in this enterprise. Compare Exo 14:19 23:20 .

Thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence I doubt not of the success. He might say so, either by rational conjecture, both from the nature of the thing, and from the constant course of God’ s providence blessing him in all his concerns; or by particular assurance and inspiration from God.

Haydock: Gen 24:7 - He will send his angel before thee // Angel

He will send his angel before thee. This shews that the Hebrews believed that God gave them guardian angels for their protection. (Challoner) ---

Angel. A proof of the antiquity of our belief respecting angel guardians. (Calmet)

Gill: Gen 24:7 - The Lord God of heaven, which took from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred // which spake unto me, and that swore unto me // saying, unto thy seed will I give this land // he shall send his angel before thee

The Lord God of heaven, which took from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred,.... Jarchi distinguishes between his father's house, and the land of his kindred; the former he takes to be Haran, in which he seems to be right; for his father and his family came with him from Ur of the Chaldees to Haran, and there stayed, from whence Abraham was taken and separated from them; by the latter he understands Ur of the Chaldees, interpreting the phrase of the land in which he was born, as Onkelos and Jonathan, and the Septuagint version render it: but the same is meant as before, for Haran was the land of his kindred, where Terah his father died, and Nahor his brother and family lived; from whence he was taken and removed into the land of Canaan, by the call, direction, and providence of the Lord God, who made the heavens, and dwells therein:

which spake unto me, and that swore unto me; made a promise to him, and confirmed it with an oath, Gen 15:18,

saying, unto thy seed will I give this land; the land of Canaan; and therefore his son, in whom his seed was to be called, must not be removed from hence, and settled in another country:

he shall send his angel before thee; Aben Ezra takes this to be a prayer or wish, "may he send his angel before thee"; for if it was a prophecy, he adds, why did he say "if the woman will not be willing?" but from Gen 24:10; and from what follows, that the servant should take a wife to his son from thence, and the encouragement he had for his faith in it, and from what God bad done for him, and said unto him, it seems as if he was fully assured in his own mind of the event: this angel may be either understood of a created angel, such being frequently made use of in the affairs of Providence, directing and succeeding men, or of the uncreated Angel, the Son of God, since the servant attributes his direction and success wholly to the Lord.