Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 15:2

2 And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing * I go childless and the Steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus .

What pleasure can I take in any other gifts, so long as thou dost withhold from me that great and promised gift of that blessed and blessing seed, in the giving of whom, thy honour and the worlds happiness is so highly concerned, ch. 12. 3.

Either 1. I pass the time of my life, going on and growing in years, and hastning to my long home. Or 2. I die, i. e. am about to die, or likely to die. Going is oft times put for dying, as 1 Chron. 17. 11. compared with 2 Sam. 7. 12. Iob. 10. 21. and 14. 20. Mat. 26. 24.

What good will the world do me, if I have no Heir to possess it, if God lose the Glory of his Truth in making good his promise, and I lose the comfort of my long-hoped for Child, and that such a Child, the effect of a Divine promise, one out of whose loines he must come, in whom all Nations shall be blessed?

Heb. The Son of the care, or government, or management of my house, i. e. he who manageth the affairs of my house. An usual Hebraism, as captives are called children of captivity, Esra. 4. 1. and afflicted persons, children of affliction, Prov. 31. 5. Others read the verse thus, And the Steward of my house, this Eli[illegible: 1+ letters]zer of Damascus, understand shall be my Heir; which words may easily be supplyed out of the following verse. And such supplements of a word or short sentence out of a member or verse either foregoing or following, are frequent in Scriprure, as Numb. 24. 22. Zech. 14. 18. Nehem. 5. 2. Habak. 2. 3. Eph. 2. 1.

This may be the name either of a man, or of a place so called.