“And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.”
Jacob came home to his father Isaac in Mamre, near Kiriath Arba, where Abraham and Isaac had stayed. The return to Isaac in Mamre is the completion of the vow of Genesis 28:21 — I will return safely to my father's household. Twenty years after the vow at Bethel, Jacob arrives where his father lives. The application: the promises made at Bethel are kept. The vow of safe return is fulfilled when Jacob arrives at Isaac's tent.
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