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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comKeil and Delitzsch Commentary - Genesis 15:11 - 15:11
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“Then birds of prey (הָעַיִט with the article, as Gen 14:13) came down upon the carcases, and Abram frightened them away.” The birds of prey represented the foes of Israel, who would seek to eat up, i.e., exterminate it. And the fact that Abram frightened them away was a sign, that Abram's faith and his relation to the Lord would preserve the whole of his posterity from destruction, that Israel would be saved for Abram's sake (Psa 105:42).