Genesis 32:20
You must also say, 'Your servant Jacob is coming after us.'” For he thought, “I will appease him with the gifts that I am sending ahead of me. Then later, when I will see him, perhaps he will receive me.”
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21So the gifts went on ahead of him. He himself stayed that night in the camp.
Cross References
Genesis 43:11Their father Israel said to them, “If it be so, now do this. Take some of the best products of the land in your bags. Carry down to the man a gift—some balm and honey, spices and myrrh, pistachio nuts and almonds.
1 Samuel 25:17Therefore know this and consider what you will do, for evil is plotted against our master, and against his whole house. He is such a worthless fellow that one cannot reason with him.”
Job 42:8Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer, so that I may not deal with you after your folly. You have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has done.”
Proverbs 15:18An angry man stirs up arguments, 1 but a person who is slow to anger quiets a quarrel. 1
Proverbs 21:14A gift in secret appeases anger 1 and a concealed gift appeases strong wrath. 1
2 Timothy 2:25He must in meekness educate those who oppose him. God may perhaps give them repentance for the knowledge of the truth.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 32:14-24
Jacob's Present to Esau. ( b. c. 1739.) 13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother; 14 Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams, 15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals. 16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove. 17 And he… Read the whole commentary →