he wept] This weeping may be referred to that which is said, Genesis 32:24. and it seems it was a weeping upon some solemn request there made, as Hebrews 5:7. he found him in Bethel] God appeared to Jacob, sleeping in Bethel, Genesis 28:12. and in his return from Padan-Aram, Genesis 35:9-11. and so spake with him there, that the fruit of that speech appertained to his posterity, whereof we are.