Genesis 17:22
When he finished talking with him, + 17:22 Aramaic Text: What is rendered as “God” in the Hebrew Masoretic Text is rendered “Glory of God” in the Aramaic text. In the book, “The Targums of Onkelos” on the five book of Moses, the foot notes on (Gen 17:22) give alternative rendering saying, “Same verse, ‘The Angel of The Lord’” which in Hebrew is ha mal'ak Yahweh. the kavod Yahweh ·weighty glory of He sustains breathing· went up from Abraham [Father of a multitude].
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In The King James Version
And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 18:33Adonai went his way, as soon as he had finished communing with Abraham [Father of a multitude], and Abraham [Father of a multitude] returned to his place.
Genesis 35:13God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him. (S:6)
Numbers 12:6He said, “Now sh'ma ·hear obey· my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Adonai, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.
John 1:18No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of Abba ·Father familiar, Dear Dad·, he has declared him.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 17:16-23
15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. 16 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her. 17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? 18 And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!… Read the whole commentary →