Adam Clarke Commentary - Genesis 15:17

Adam Clarke Commentary - Genesis 15:17 - 15:17

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Adam Clarke Commentary - Genesis 15:17 - 15:17

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

15:1 - 15:1
15:2 - 15:2
15:5 - 15:5
15:6 - 15:6
15:7 - 15:7
15:8 - 15:8
15:9 - 15:9
15:10 - 15:10
15:11 - 15:11
15:12 - 15:12
15:13 - 15:13
15:14 - 15:14
15:15 - 15:15
15:16 - 15:16
15:17 - 15:17
15:18 - 15:18
15:19 - 15:19

Smoking furnace and a burning lamp - Probably the smoking furnace might be designed as an emblem of the sore afflictions of the Israelites in Egypt; but the burning lamp was certainly the symbol of the Divine presence, which, passing between the pieces, ratified the covenant with Abram, as the following verse immediately states.