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Verse Genesis 27:36. _IS NOT HE RIGHTLY NAMED JACOB?_] Genesis 25:26,
Genesis 25:26.
_HE TOOK AWAY MY BIRTHRIGHT_] So he might say with considerable
propriety; for
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- Isaac Blessing His Sons
The life of Isaac falls into three periods. During the first
seventy-five years he is contemporary with his father. For sixty-one
years more his son Jacob remains under the...
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CHAPTER 27 THE STORY OF JACOB AND THE DECEPTION OF REBEKAH AND JACOB
_ 1. Esau sent (Genesis 27:1)_
2. Rebekah's deception (Genesis 27:5)
3. Jacob's deception (Genesis 27:18)
4. Jacob blessed ...
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AT HIS MOTHER'S INSTIGATION, JACOB CHEATS Esau OF HIS FATHER'S
BLESSING. Probably compiled from J and E. Since both presuppose it
later, both must have told the story. There are doublets which point
t...
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_rightly named Jacob_ See note on Genesis 25:26.
_supplanted_ i.e. "outwitted," "overreached by guile." The word in the
original is of the same root as the word "Jacob." It is as if Esau had
said "he...
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IS NOT HE RIGHTLY NAMED JACOB— i.e.. A _supplanter._ There is
something very affecting in this scene between Esau (who was now, as
Le Clerc computes, past his seventieth year) and his blind and aged
p...
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PART THIRTY-NINE
THE STORY OF ISAAC: THE TWINS AND THE BLESSING
(Genesis 27:1-45)
_The Biblical Account
1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim,
so that he could not se...
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27:36 Jacob, (a-11) See ch. 25.26....
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SUPPLANTED] see on Genesis 25:26....
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JACOB BY SUBTILTY OBTAINS THE BLESSING
Urged on by his mother, Jacob attempts by unworthy means to secure the
blessing of the firstborn with all the privileges it involved. But the
wrongdoing of the a...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 27
JACOB CHEATS HIS FATHER
V1 Isaac was very old. His eyes had become so weak that he could not
see. Then he called Esau, who was his older son....
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‘Jacob’ means ‘one who cheats’. (See the comment on Genesis
25:26.)...
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EXCURSUS G: UPON THE CHRONOLOGY OF JACOB’S LIFE (Genesis 27)
The elaborate calculations of Lightfoot, and most Jewish and Christian
commentators, intended to show that when Jacob set out upon his
jour...
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IS NOT HE RIGHTLY NAMED JACOB? — In thus playing upon his
brother’s name, Esau has had a lasting revenge; for the bad sense
which he for the first time put upon the word Jacob has adhered to it,
no do...
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וַ יֹּ֡אמֶר הֲ כִי֩ קָרָ֨א שְׁמֹ֜ו
יַעֲקֹ֗ב
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JACOB'S FRAUD
Genesis 27:1
"The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever."- Psalms 33:11
THERE are some families whose miserable existence is almost entirely
made up of malicious plottings and counter-...
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ESAU'S GRIEF AND ANGER
Genesis 27:30
Esau apparently had awakened to realize the value of the blessing of
the birthright which he had treated so lightly. His exceeding great
and bitter cry expressed...
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From this point the history passes to center largely around Jacob. At
the beginning, four persons stand out: Isaac, Rebekah, Esau, and
Jacob, and not one of them is admirable. Isaac is even more degen...
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ESAU'S DESPAIR
Almost as soon as Jacob had left, Esau returned with the meat he had
killed and prepared. Isaac asked who he was. As soon as Esau
identified himself, Isaac realized the deception which...
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And he said, Is not he rightly named (g) Jacob? for he hath supplanted
me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he
hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reser...
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_Jacob. That is, a supplanter. (Challoner) --- My blessing. Both Isaac
and Esau speak of this blessing, according to the dictates of nature.
But God had disposed of it otherwise. The profane and cruel...
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Jacob means a supplanter....
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Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the
remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the
Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
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36._Is he not rightly named Jacob? _That the mind of Esau was affected
with no sense of penitence appears hence; he accused his brother and
took no blame to himself. But the very beginning of repentan...
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Jacob's history now begins [1]. Heir of the promises, and valuing
them, he uses means to have them, evil and low in character. God
answers his faith, and chastens his evil and unbelief. God could have...
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AND HE SAID, IS NOT HE RIGHTLY NAMED JACOB?.... As he was by his
parents, and those that were at his birth, because he took his brother
by the heel as he came out of his mother's womb; for Jacob signi...
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And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me
these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath
taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved...
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1 Isaac sendeth Esau for venison.
5 Rebekah instructeth Iacob to obtaine the blessing.
15 Iacob vnder the person of Esau obteineth it.
30 Esau bringeth venison.
33 Isaac trembleth.
34 Esau compla...
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And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob (heel-catcher, supplanter)
? FOR HE HATH SUPPLANTED ME THESE TWO TIMES; HE TOOK AWAY MY
BIRTHRIGHT; AND, BEHOLD, NOW HE HATH TAKEN AWAY MY BLESSING. Esau was...
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ESAU RETURNS AND RECEIVES THE YOUNGER SON'S BLESSING...
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SIXTH SECTION
_Isaac’s preference for the natural first-born, and Esau. Rebekah
and Jacob steal from him the theocratic blessing. Esau’s blessing.
Esau’s hostility to Jacob. Rebekah’s preparation for...
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JACOB DECEIVES HIS FATHER
In spite of Esau's wrong marriages, and in spite of God's word that
Isaac's older son would serve the younger (ch.25:23). Isaac was ready
to confer his chief blessing on Esa...
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JACOB:
That is, A supplanter...
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30-40 When Esau understood that Jacob had got the blessing, he cried
with a great and exceeding bitter cry. The day is coming, when those
that now make light of the blessings of the covenant, and sel...
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He puts a perverse construction upon Jacob's name, as if it belonged
not to him so properly, because of the manner of his birth, as because
of his falseness and deceitfulness, and his tripping up his...
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These Chapter s present to us the history of Jacob at least, the
principal scenes in that history. The Spirit of God here sets before
us the deepest instruction, first, as to God's purpose of infinite...
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Genesis 27:36 said H559 (H8799) rightly H3588 named H7121 (H8804)
H8034 Jacob H3290 supplanted H6117 ...
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‘And he said, “Is he not rightly called Jacob? For he has
supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and see,
now he has taken away my blessing.”
Esau makes a bitter play on words. The...
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Genesis 27:36
Jacob is the typical Jew; he is the epitome of the character of the
chosen people, who, again, are an epitome of the great human world.
All the virtues, all the vices, all the strength...
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CONTENTS: Fraudulent methods of Jacob in getting Isaac's blessing.
Remorse of Esau.
CHARACTERS: Isaac, Esau, Jacob, Rebekah.
CONCLUSION: Human nature in prone to scheme to bring about what God
would...
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Genesis 27:1. _Isaac was old;_ in the hundred and thirty-seventh year
of his age, the very year in which his brother Ishmael died. Jacob and
Esau were also in their seventy-seventh year; but Isaac liv...
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_And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great
and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me
also, O my father_
ESAU’S CRY
No one can read this chapter w...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 27:30 IS HE NOT RIGHTLY NAMED JACOB? FOR HE
HAS CHEATED ME THESE TWO TIMES (v. Genesis 27:36). Esau refers here to
the name “Jacob,” whic
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 27:39. Thy dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, and
of the dew of heaven from above.] The preposition is here used in a
_privative_ sense, _apart from the fatness of...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 27:30
AND IT CAME TO PASS (literally, _and it _was), AS SOON AS ISAAC HAD
MADE AN END OF BLESSING JACOB, AND JACOB WAS YET SCARCE GONE
OUT—literally, _and it was _(_sc_._ _as soon...
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Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Genesis chapter twenty-seven?
Now it came to pass, when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so
that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto...
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Jacob. i.e., a supplanter. Genesis 25:26 Genesis 25:31 Genesis 32:28
John 1:47 he took....