Genesis 35:8 (BSB)
Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bacuth.
From Genesis 35. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Genesis 35:8
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Genesis 35:8: 8. But Deborah, Rebecca’s nurse, died. Here is inserted a short narration of the death of Deborah, whom we may conclude to have been a holy matron, and whom the family of Jacob venerated as a mother; for the name given in perpetuity to the place, testifies that she was buried with peculiar honor, and with no common mourning.
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Genesis 35:6-15: Jacob and his retinue having safely arrived at Bethel, we are here told what passed there. I. There he built an altar (Gen 35:7), and no doubt offered sacrifice upon it, perhaps the tenth of his cattle, according to his vow, I will give the tenth unto thee.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Genesis 35:8: But Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died,.... That is, when, and quickly after they were come to Bethel; a nurse of Rebekah's came with her to Canaan, when she married Isaac, and is generally thought to be this Deborah, which is not improbable, Gen 24:59, though she might have more nurses than one, as great personages sometimes have, and then it will not be so difficult to...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Genesis 35:8: Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died--This event seems to have taken place before the solemnities were commenced. Deborah (Hebrew, a "bee"), supposing her to have been fifty years on coming to Canaan, had attained the great age of a hundred eighty. When she was removed from Isaac's household to Jacob's, is unknown.