Matthew Poole Commentary - Genesis 31:21 - 31:21

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Genesis 31:21 - 31:21


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The river Euphrates, which lay between Mesopotamia and Chaldea, Gen_15:18, which for its largeness and famousness is oft called the river emphatically, as Exo_23:31 Jos_24:2,3, &c.



And set his face, i.e. resolutely directed his course. See Jer_50:5 Luk_9:51,53.



Mount Gilead, a very high and long mountain beyond Jordan, adjoining to the mountain of Lebanon, at the foot of which there was a large and fruitful country, which from the mountain received the name of Gilead, Deu_34:1 Jer_8:22 22:6. This mountain is here called Gilead by anticipation, as appears from Gen_31:48.