he bought a parcell] This was a part of the Land of Canaan, which was his by promise, yet the time of possession of it, according to the grant to him, and his seed, was not yet come; and therefore without distrust of Gods promise, or a renunciation of his owne right, he buyeth a piece of land for his present necessitie, as Abraham did the field of Machpelah, Gen. 23. 17, 18. children of Hamor] He was Prince of the Shechemites; and his subjects are called children, because a Prince is the father of his Countrey. See the name Abimelech in Annot. on Chap. 20. vers. 2. an hundred pieces] Or, lambes. That is, for so many lambes in kind, or the price of so many; or so many pieces of silver having the picture of a Lamb figured upon them; the same word Kesitah is used, Job 42:11. of the gift brought to Job, which signifieth a sheepe, and a piece of coine; but a sheep had been a small matter, therefore it is like it was a piece of coyne with a sheep figured upon it; and liker to be gold then silver, especially as the present of the rich: and our Latine word pecunia is so called, either because it is used in commerce as cattell were before, or else because the portraiture of a beast was stamped upon it.