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<p class="tab-1">We read, in the former chapter, how Jacob had power with God, and prevailed; here we find what power he had with men too, and how his brother Esau was mollified, and, on a sudden, reconciled to him; for so it is written, <a class="bibleref" title="Prov.16.7" href="/passage/?search=Prov.16.7">Prov. 16:7</a>; “When a mans ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.” Here is, I. A very friendly meeting between Jacob and Esau, <a class="bibleref" title="Gen.33.1-Gen.33.4" href="/passage/?search=Gen.33.1-Gen.33.4">Gen. 33:1-4</a>. II. Their conference at their meeting, in which they vie with each other in civil and kind expressions. Their discourse is, 1. About Jacobs family, <a class="bibleref" title="Gen.33.5-Gen.33.7" href="/passage/?search=Gen.33.5-Gen.33.7">Gen. 33:5-7</a>. 2. About the present he had sent, <a class="bibleref" title="Gen.33.8-Gen.33.11" href="/passage/?search=Gen.33.8-Gen.33.11">Gen. 33:8-11</a>. 3. About the progress of their journey, <a class="bibleref" title="Gen.33.12-Gen.33.15" href="/passage/?search=Gen.33.12-Gen.33.15">Gen. 33:12-15</a>. III. Jacobs settlement in Canaan, his house, ground, and altar, <a class="bibleref" title="Gen.33.16-Gen.33.20" href="/passage/?search=Gen.33.16-Gen.33.20">Gen. 33:16-20</a>.</p>