{"commentary":{"id":"jamieson-fausset-brown","name":"Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary","website":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamieson-Fausset-Brown_Bible_Commentary","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/","licenseNotes":null,"licenseNotice":null,"englishName":"Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary","language":"eng","textDirection":"rtl","sha256":"db3d4c8b3c1f32ef9d1430a57392e02bda3a17aac1f9bbe398461de021a3cb13","availableFormats":["json"],"listOfBooksApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/books.json","listOfProfilesApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/profiles.json","numberOfBooks":66,"totalNumberOfChapters":1187,"totalNumberOfVerses":17056,"totalNumberOfProfiles":0,"languageName":"English","languageEnglishName":"English"},"book":{"id":"GEN","commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","name":"Genesis","commonName":"Genesis","introduction":"GENESIS, the book of the origin or production of all things, consists of two parts: the first, comprehended in the first through eleventh chapters, gives a general history; the second, contained in the subsequent chapters, gives a special history. The two parts are essentially connected; the one, which sets out with an account of the descent of the human race from a single pair, the introduction of sin into the world, and the announcement of the scheme of divine mercy for repairing the ruins of the fall, was necessary to pave the way for relating the other, namely, the call of Abraham, and the selection of his posterity for carrying out the gracious purpose of God. An evident unity of method, therefore, pervades this book, and the information contained in it was of the greatest importance to the Hebrew people, as without it they could not have understood the frequent references made in their law to the purposes and promises of God regarding themselves. The arguments that have been already adduced as establishing the Mosaic origin of the Pentateuch prove of course that Moses was the author of Genesis. The few passages on which the rationalists grounded their assertions that it was the composition of a later age have been successfully shown to warrant no such conclusion; the use of Egyptian words and the minute acquaintance with Egyptian life and manners, displayed in the history of Joseph, harmonize with the education of Moses, and whether he received his information by immediate revelation, from tradition, or from written documents, it comes to us as the authentic work of an author who wrote as he was inspired by the Holy Ghost (Pe2 1:21). \n \n\n\nNext: Genesis Chapter 1\n\n","order":1,"numberOfChapters":50,"sha256":"ec815a3918530d6e58baacb7273848b505bde282d2878c9c6d40c430ca66075d","firstChapterNumber":1,"firstChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/GEN/1.json","firstChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"GEN","chapter":1},"lastChapterNumber":50,"lastChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/GEN/50.json","lastChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"GEN","chapter":50},"totalNumberOfVerses":529},"chapter":{"number":23,"content":[{"type":"verse","number":2,"content":["Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, &c.--He came from his own tent to take his station at the door of Sarah's. The \"mourning\" describes his conformity to the customary usage of sitting on the ground for a time; while the \"weeping\" indicates the natural outburst of his sorrow.\n \n"]},{"type":"verse","number":3,"content":["PURCHASE OF A BURYING-PLACE. (Gen. 23:3-20)\n \nAbraham stood up, &c.--Eastern people are always provided with family burying-places; but Abraham's life of faith--his pilgrim state--had prevented him acquiring even so small a possession (Act 7:5). \n \nspake unto the sons of Heth--He bespoke their kind offices to aid him in obtaining possession of a cave that belonged to Ephron--a wealthy neighbor.\n \n"]},{"type":"verse","number":9,"content":["Machpelah--the \"double cave.\"\n \n"]},{"type":"verse","number":10,"content":["Ephron dwelt--literally, was \"sitting\" among the children of Heth in the gate of the city where all business was transacted. But, though a chief man among them, he was probably unknown to Abraham.\n \n"]},{"type":"verse","number":11,"content":["Ephron answered, Nay, my lord, &c.--Here is a great show of generosity, but it was only a show; for while Abraham wanted only the cave, he joins \"the field and the cave\"; and though he offered them both as free gifts, he, of course, expected some costly presents in return, without which, he would not have been satisfied. The patriarch, knowing this, wished to make a purchase and asked the terms.\n \n"]},{"type":"verse","number":15,"content":["the land is worth four hundred shekels, &c.--as if Ephron had said, \"Since you wish to know the value of the property, it is so and so; but that is a trifle, which you may pay or not as it suits you.\" They spoke in the common forms of Arab civility, and this indifference was mere affectation.\n \n"]},{"type":"verse","number":16,"content":["Abraham weighed . . . the silver--The money, amounting to £50 was paid in presence of the assembled witnesses; and it was weighed. The practice of weighing money, which is often in lumps or rings, each stamped with their weight, is still common in many parts of the East; and every merchant at the gates or the bazaar has his scales at his girdle.\n \n"]},{"type":"verse","number":19,"content":["Abraham buried Sarah--Thus he got possession of Machpelah and deposited the remains of his lamented partner in a family vault which was the only spot of ground he owned.\n \n\n\n\nNext: Genesis Chapter 24\n\n"]}],"introduction":"AGE AND DEATH OF SARAH. (Gen 23:1-2)\n \nSarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old, &c.--Sarah is the only woman in Scripture whose age, death, and burial are mentioned, probably to do honor to the venerable mother of the Hebrew people.\n \n"},"thisChapterLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/GEN/23.json","thisChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"GEN","chapter":23},"nextChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/GEN/24.json","nextChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"GEN","chapter":24},"previousChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/GEN/22.json","previousChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"GEN","chapter":22},"numberOfVerses":8}