Wesley Corpus

Laban called it in Syriac, and Jacob in Hebrew, The heap of witness. And Ge 31:49, it was called Mizpah, a watch - tower. Posterity being included in the league, care was taken that thus the memory of it should be preserved. The name Jacob gave this heap stuck by it, Galeed, not the name Laban gave it. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac - The God whom his father Isaac feared, who had never served other gods, as Abraham and Nahor had done. Chapter XXXII We have here Jacob still upon his journey towards Canaan. Never did so many memorable things occur in any march, as in this in Jacob's little family. By the way he meets, With good tidings from his God, ver. 1, 2. With bad tidings from his brother, to whom he sent a message to notify his return, ver. 2 - 7.