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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Genesis 25:23

The younger. The Idumeans shall be subdued by the arms of David: and the Jews themselves shall yield to the Christian Church. (St. Augustine, City of God xvi. 35.) St. Paul, Romans ix, draws another very important truth from this history, shewing the mercy of God to be gratuitous in choosing his saints. (Worthington)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 25:23. _TWO NATIONS ARE IN THY WOMB_] "We have," says Bishop Newton, "in the prophecies delivered respecting the sons of Isaac, ample proof that these prophecies were not meant so much...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    IX. THE GENERATIONS OF ISAAC CHAPTER 25:19-34 Esau and Jacob _ 1. Rebekah barren and the answered prayer (Genesis 25:19)_ 2. The birth of Esau and Jacob (Genesis 25:23) 3. The growth of the boys ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE BIRTH OF JACOB AND ESAU. JACOB TAKES ADVANTAGE OF ESAU TO SECURE HIS BIRTHRIGHT. At this point we pass to the story of Jacob. In the present section Genesis 25:19 f., Genesis 25:26_ b_ belong to P...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And the Lord said_ How the Divine answer was granted, whether by priest or soothsayer, by dream or by vision, we are not told. It is in the form of a rhythmic oracle, in four _stichoi_, or lines. The...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 40 JACOB PREFERRED BEFORE ESAU Genesis 25:23. _The elder shall serve the younger._ THE common gifts of Providence are bestowed in such a regular and ordinary way, that the hand of God is s...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THE LORD SAID, TWO NATIONS, &C.— We have in the prophecies delivered respecting these sons of Isaac, more ample proof of what has been before asserted, that these prophecies were meant not so much...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART THIRTY-SEVEN THE STORY OF ISAAC; THE TWINS AND THE BIRTHRIGHT (Genesis 25:19-34) _1. Introduction_ Having concluded the account of all that needed to be known about Ishmael and his progeny, th...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE LORD SAID UNTO HER, TWO NATIONS ARE IN THY WOMB, AND TWO MANNER OF PEOPLE SHALL BE SEPARATED FROM THY BOWELS; AND THE ONE PEOPLE SHALL BE STRONGER THAN THE OTHER PEOPLE; AND THE ELDER SHALL S...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    25:23 peoples (a-14) _ Leummim_ ; see Psalms 2:2 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Note the poetical form of the oracle. See RV. SHALL BE SEPARATED, etc.] or 'From thy womb they will separate from one another,' i. e. be at variance from their birth. THE ELDER SHALL SERVE THE YOUNGER...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SONS OF ABRAHAM BY KETURAH. DEATH AND BURIAL OF ABRAHAM. DESCENDANTS OF ISHMAEL. BIRTH AND YOUTH OF ESAU AND JACOB 1. It is not known at what period of his life Abraham took Keturah as his seconda...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 25 ABRAHAM DIES V1 Abraham married another wife, who was called Keturah. V2 She became the mother of Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and S...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ‘Two nations are in you.’ God told Rebekah that she had two babies. Each baby was a son. Each son would grow and he would have many *descendants. The *descendants of each of her sons would become a na...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29). THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS. Abraham begat Isaac — The _Tôldôth_ in its original form gave probably a complete genealogy of Isaac, tracing up his des...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND THE LORD SAID UNTO HER. — Not by the mouth of Abraham, nor in a dream, but directly, as He spake of old to Adam and Eve. We read of no appearance, as in Genesis 17:1, nor must we invent one. The m...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֜ה לָ֗הּ שְׁנֵ֤י _גֹויִם֙_† בְּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    ESAU AND JACOB Genesis 25:1 "He goeth as an ox goeth to the slaughter, till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life."- Proverbs 7:22...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    JACOB AND ESAU, TWIN BROTHERS Genesis 25:19 In the thought of that age, the birthright carried with it the spiritual leadership of the tribe. To be the priest of the family, to stand between the Most...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The record of the death of Abraham is full of beauty. His life had been spent in the realm of the supernatural, the region of vision, the power of the spiritual. The whole of it is summed up in the wo...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    THE BIRTH OF JACOB AND ESAU After nineteen years of marriage, Isaac and Rebekah still had no children. Isaac prayed God would allow Rebekah to conceive. As John T. Willis observed, we may assume havin...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If i...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    23._Two nations_. In the first place, God answers that the contention between the twin-brothers had reference to something far beyond their own persons; for in this way he shows that there would be di...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    We have next the election of God which now sets apart the earthly people, Jacob. It is remarkable how little we have of Isaac, nothing but his remaining in heavenly places, I mean of course in the fig...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THE LORD SAID UNTO HER,.... Either by one or other of the above persons she acquainted with this affair, and entreated to seek the Lord for her; or by an impulse upon her own mind: TWO NATIONS [A...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the LORD said unto her, Two nations [are] in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and [the one] people shall be stronger than [the other] people; and the elder sh...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Two nations are in thy womb_ The fathers of two nations, namely, of the Edomites and Israelites; two manner of people, which should not only greatly differ from each other in religion, laws, manners,...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The sonnes of Abraham by Keturah. 5 The diuision of his goods. 7 His age and death. 9 His buriall. 12 The generations of Ishmael. 17 His age, and death. 19 Isaac prayeth for Rebekah being barr...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ISAAC'S PRAYER FOR REBEKAH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Jacob at Edar and Hebron...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall se...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    SECOND SECTION _Jacob and Esau_ GENESIS 25:19-34 19And these _are_ the generations [genealogies] of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham begat Isaac: 20And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    OTHER GENERATIONS OF ABRAHAM We are not told what time Abraham took Keturah as a wife. Of course, God could enable him to be a father of children even after Sarah had died, but in this case he would b...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    19-26 Isaac seems not to have been much tried, but to have spent his days in quietness. Jacob and Esau were prayed for; their parents, after being long childless, obtained them by prayer. The fulfilm...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE LORD spoke, either by inward inspiration, in a dream or vision; or by the ministry of an angel or prophet. TWO NATIONS, i.e. the roots, heads, or parents of two distinct nations, one opposite to t...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    In the opening of this chapter, Abraham's second marriage is set before us, an event not without its interest to the spiritual mind, when viewed in connection with what we have been considering in the...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 25:23 LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) Two H8147 nations H1471 womb H990 Two H8147 peoples H3816 separated...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    Genesis 25:19 A “This is the family history of Isaac, Abraham” s son.' On the death of Ishmael Isaac becomes the eldest son of Abraham and accordingly takes responsibility for the family records and...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Genesis 25 _(with Hebrews 12:16)_ The chief use, apparently, of some men's lives is that they may serve as beacons, warning off those who come after them from quicksand or whirlpool. They flame amids...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Abraham weds Keturah. Isaac becomes Abraham's heir. Death of Abraham. Generations of Ishmael and Isaac. Birth of Esau and Jacob and the sale of the birthright. CHARACTERS: Abraham, Keturah,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 25:1. _Keturah_ is here called a wife; but a learned writer in his _Bibliotheca Biblia,_ printed at Oxford 1720, brings forward a supposition of the Jews, that Hagar returned to Abraham after...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The generations of Isaac._ THE HOLY SEED 1. God hath a special care to commend unto posterity the line of His Church, and His providences towards it. 2. The eminent line of the Church visible begi...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 25:22 The observation that the CHILDREN STRUGGLED TOGETHER WITHIN HER introduces one of the main themes of chs. Genesis 25:1. The relationsh

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 25:19. These are the generations.] The ninth document here begins with the usual phrase, and continues to the end of the thirty-fifth chapter. It contains the history of the...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    § 9. THE GENERATIONS OF ISAAC (Genesis 25:19-1). EXPOSITION GENESIS 25:19 AND THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS OF ISAAC, ABRAHAM'S SON. The usual formula for the opening of a new section (cf....

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Then in chapter twenty-five we find that Abraham [after Sarah's death] took another wife, her name was Keturah. [The name means, "mother of us all".] And she bare him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Two nations. Genesis 17:16 Genesis 24:60 two manner. Genesis 25:27 Genesis 32:6...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Two nations are in thy womb — She was now big not only with two children, but two nations, which should not only in their manners greatly differ from each other, but in their interest contend with eac...

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