Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found [them] not.
34. the camel’s furniture ] By this is probably meant the wicker framework of the camel’s saddle, with its trappings and hangings, LXX , Lat. stramenta.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
34. Rachel had taken the images, andput them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon themThe commonpack saddle is often used as a seat or a cushion, against which aperson squatted on the floor may lean.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Now Rachel had taken the images,…. Hearing her father inquire about them, and her husband having given leave to search for them, and to put to death whoever should be found to have them, took them from the place where she had before laid them:
and put them into the camel’s furniture; perhaps the camel’s furniture she rode on, and therefore it was in her tent, which some understand of the saddle on which she rode; rather, it seems to be the saddle cloth or housing, in which she might wrap the images and put them under her clothes; though some interpret it of the straw or litter of the camel, which is not so probable:
and sat upon them; the images, which, if she had the veneration for, as some suggest, she would never have used in such a manner:
and Laban searched all the tent, but found [them] not; excepting the place where Rachel sat; but Aben Ezra thinks she was not in the tent, but in some place without it, and if so, there needs no exception.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(34) The camels furniture.That is, the camels saddle. It is now made of wicker-work, and is protected by curtains and a canopy. Probably Rachels was far simpler; and as the teraphim seem to have had heads shaped like those of a man, and dwarf bodies, they would easily be crammed under it.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
34. Camel’s furniture The car, , or palanquin of the camel, “a covered vehicle which is secured on the back of the camel, and answers the purpose of a small house . It is often divided into two apartments, and the traveller, who can sit in either of them, is enabled also to carry some little furniture with him . These conveyances are protected by veils, which are not rolled up, except in front, so that the person within has the privilege of looking out while he is himself concealed. They are used chiefly by the women, rarely by the men.” JAHN’S Biblical Archaeology, 49.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Is there nothing in those verses to prompt Ministers to watchfulness in their ministry; and servants to faithfulness in their service? Above all, doth not the Reader discover somewhat here to bring to his remembrance the unequalled ministry and service of the Lord Jesus? Was he not exposed for his sheep, in the day to the drought, and to the frost by night? Did he not, as their Surety, suffer the loss of all things? And did not God the Father, at his hand, require all, when he undertook their redemption? Precious Jesus! how sweet and endearing doth every renewed view of thy love appear, in which thou didst testify thy regard to thy people.
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Gen 31:34 Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found [them] not.
Ver. 34. Put them in the camel’s furniture, and sat upon them.] Presumptuous sinners deal as homely with the dear mercies of Almighty God, pleading and pretending them to their wicked courses; and so kicking against his heart; which are therefore fast closed against them.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Rachel. Repeated by the Figure of speech Anadiplosis. Hebrew “tent of Rachel, and Rachel had taken. “
furniture = saddle.
searched = felt [with his hands].
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
had taken: Gen 31:17, Gen 31:19
furniture: The word, car, rendered “furniture,” properly denotes “a large round pannier,” placed one on each side of a camel, for a person, especially women, to ride in. It is a hamper, like a cradle, having a back, head, and sides, like a great chair. Moryson describes them as “two long chairs like cradles, covered with red cloth, to hang on the two sides of the camel.” Hanway calls them kedgavays, which “are a kind of covered chairs, which the Persians hang over their camels in the manner of panniers, and are big enough for one person to sit in.” Thevenot, who calls then counes, says that they lay over them a cover, which keeps then both from the rain and sun; and Maillet describes them as covered cages, hanging on each side of a camel. The late Editor of Calmet has furnished a correct delineation of these cars, as seen on one side of a camel, copied from Dalton’s Prints of Egyptian Figures.
searched: Heb. felt
Reciprocal: Gen 24:61 – they rode Gen 35:2 – strange Lev 15:9 – saddle Deu 27:15 – and putteth