Gen 26:12, 30:27-30, 39:5, 23, Lev 25:21, 26:4-5, Deu 28:8, Pro 10:22 | TSK | STEP | sowed.The author of the "History of the Piratical States of Barbary" observes, (p. 44,) that the Moors of that country are divided into tribes like the Arabians, and like them dwell in tents, formed into itinerant villages; that "these wanderers farm lands of the inhabitants of the towns, sow and cultivate them, paying their rent with the produce, such as fruits, corn, wax, etc. They are very skilful in choosing the most advantageous soils for every season, and very careful to avoid the Turkish troops, the violence of the one little suiting the simplicity of the other." It is natural to suppose, that Isaac possessed the like sagacity, when he sowed in the land of Gerar, and received that year an hundred-fold. received. Heb. found. an hundredfold. blessed.

Genesis 26:12

sowed.The author of the "History of the Piratical States of Barbary" observes, (p. 44,) that the Moors of that country are divided into tribes like the Arabians, and like them dwell in tents, formed into itinerant villages; that "these wanderers farm lands of the inhabitants of the towns, sow and cultivate them, paying their rent with the produce, such as fruits, corn, wax, etc. They are very skilful in choosing the most advantageous soils for every season, and very careful to avoid the Turkish troops, the violence of the one little suiting the simplicity of the other." It is natural to suppose, that Isaac possessed the like sagacity, when he sowed in the land of Gerar, and received that year an hundred-fold.

received. Heb. found. an hundredfold.

Ps 67:6; 72:16; Ec 11:6; Zec 8:12; Mt 13:8,23; Mr 4:8; 1Co 3:6

2Co 9:10,11; Ga 6:7,8

blessed.

3,29; 24:1,35; 30:30; Job 42:12

Genesis 30:27-30

favour.

18:3; 33:15; 34:11; 39:3-5,21; 47:25; Ex 3:21; Nu 11:11,15; Ru 2:13

1Sa 16:22; 1Ki 11:19; Ne 1:11; 2:5; Da 1:9; Ac 7:10

the Lord.

30; 12:3; 26:24; 39:2-5,21-23; Ps 1:3; Isa 6:13; 61:9; 65:8

29:15,19

5; 31:6,38-40; Mt 24:45; Eph 6:5-8; Col 3:22-25; Tit 2:9,10

1Pe 2:15,18

increased. Heb. broken forth.

and the.

since my coming. Heb. at my foot.

De 11:10

when.

2Co 12:14; 1Ti 5:8

Genesis 39:5

for Joseph's.

12:2; 19:29; 30:27; De 28:3-6; 2Sa 6:11,12; Ps 21:6; 72:17; Ac 27:24

Eph 1:3

Genesis 39:23

keeper.

40:3,4

because.

2,3; 49:23,24; 1Sa 2:30; Ps 1:3; 37:3-11; Isa 43:2; Da 6:22

Leviticus 25:21

I will.As it is here graciously promised, that the sixth year was to bring forth fruits for three years, not merely for two, it is evident that both the sabbatical year and the year of jubilee were distinctly provided for. They were not to sow from the sixth to the eighth year, omitting two seed times; nor reap from the sixth to the ninth, omitting two harvests. No legislator, unless conscious of being divinely commissioned, would have committed himself by enacting such a law as this; nor would any people have submitted to receive it, except in consequence of the fullest conviction that a divine authority had dictated it. It therefore stands as a proof that Moses acted by the express direction of the Almighty, and that the people were fully persuaded of the reality of his divine mission by the miracles he wrought.

Ge 26:12; 41:47; Ex 16:29; De 28:3,8; Ps 133:3; Pr 10:22; 2Co 9:10

three years.

4,8-11