Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 33:17

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 33:17 - 33:17

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 33:17 - 33:17

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33:1 - 33:1
33:3 - 33:3
33:4 - 33:4
33:5 - 33:5
33:11 - 33:11
33:12 - 33:12
33:14 - 33:14
33:17 - 33:17
33:18 - 33:18
33:19 - 33:19
33:20 - 33:20

Jacob journeyed to Succoth - that is, “booths,” that being the first station at which Jacob halted on his arrival in Canaan. His posterity, when dwelling in houses of stone, built a city there and called it Succoth, to commemorate the fact that their ancestor, “a Syrian ready to perish” [Deu 26:5], was glad to dwell in booths.