11–12. Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance. This repetition of the great covenant
promise is recorded in Genesis 35:9–12 in connection with the change of Jacob’s name, and very soon after that
slaughter of the Shechemites, which had put the patriarch into such great alarm
and caused him to use language almost identical with that of the next verse. When they were but a few men in number; yea. very few. and strangers in it.
Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “Ye have
troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the
Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather
themselves together against me, and slay me, and I shall be destroyed, and my
house.” Thus the fears of the man of God declared themselves, and they were
reasonable if we look only at the circumstances in which he was placed, but
they are soon seen to be groundless when we remember that the covenant promise,
which guaranteed the possession of the land, necessarily implied the
preservation of the race to whom the promise was made. We often fear where no
fear is.
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