4385. 'And Esau said, Let me now place with you some of the people who are with me' means that some truths supplied by the truth of good might be joined. This is clear from the meaning of 'placing with you' as joining together, and from the meaning of 'the people who are with me' as some truths supplied by the truth of good 'The people' means truths, see 1259, 1260, 2928, 3295, 3581; and therefore 'the people who are with me' means truths of good. What truths of good are has been stated a number of times already. They are those truths which proceed from good and which the good flowing in by way of the internal man into the external holds within itself. As regards those truths being meant by the four hundred men that Esau had with him, see above in 4341. At this point therefore some of those truths are meant since the expression 'some of the people who are with me' is used.

In Genesis 29:17, this signifies that the affections of external truth have feeble and wavering understanding. (Arcana Coelestia 3820)

In Numbers 13:18, it signifies being without supporting truths. (Arcana Coelestia 6344)

In Psalm 6:2, weakness occurs in a prayer of the Lord to the Father when He was in the last state of temptation, which is despair. (The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms 256.)

In Psalm 109:24, it signifies a lack of nourishing goods and truths. (Arcana Coelestia 9050[7])