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Verse Genesis 27:15. _GOODLY RAIMENT_] Mr. Ainsworth has a sensible
note on this place. "The priest in the law had _holy garments_ to
minister in, Exodus 28:2, which the Septuagint there and in this...
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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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GOODLY. Hebrew desires. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of the Adjunct),
App-6, put for the things desired or coveted (2 Chronicles 36:10;
Isaiah 64:11.Lamentations 1:10;...
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_the goodly raiment_ "Goodly," lit. "choice," "desirable." By this is
meant the clothes worn by Esau on festivals and solemn occasions.
Their odour was familiar, Genesis 27:27. It was the ancient Jewi...
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TOOK GOODLY RAIMENT OF HER ELDEST SON, &C.— Some critics of very
great name, as Bochart, Selden, Grotius, &c. are of opinion, that
these were the sacerdotal garments, appropriated to the first-born,
w...
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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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_AND HIS MOTHER SAID UNTO HIM, UPON ME BE THY CURSE, MY SON: ONLY OBEY
MY VOICE, AND GO FETCH ME THEM._
And his mother said ... Upon me be thy curse. His conscience being
soothed by his mother, prepa...
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GOODLY RAIMENT] RV 'the goodly raiment,' his better clothes which were
at home in his tent.
28, 29. The blessing as here recorded refers first to the fruitful
land the supposed Esau would inherit, and...
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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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Rebekah had many times watched Esau go to Isaac. Isaac was blind. (See
verse 1.) And Isaac wanted to be certain who came to him. So he used
to feel Esau’s clothes. He used to feel the backs of Esau’s...
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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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GOODLY RAIMENT. — It has been supposed that the elder son held a
sort of priestly office in the household, and as Isaac’s sight was
growing dim, that Esau ministered for him at sacrifices. Evidently t...
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וַ תִּקַּ֣ח רִ֠בְקָה אֶת ־בִּגְדֵ֨י
עֵשָׂ֜ו ב
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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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REBEKAH PLANS TO CHEAT ISAAC
Genesis 27:1
This chapter narrates a sad story of the chosen family. Esau is the
only character which elicits universal sympathy. Isaac appears to have
sunk into prematur...
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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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REBEKAH HELPED JACOB GET THE BLESSING
Rebekah overheard Isaac's instructions to Esau. She called for Jacob
and told him to kill two choice kids from the flocks. She planned to
prepare them in a way w...
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_Very good. Hebrew desirable, kept among perfumes, ver. 27. Such, the
Hebrews say, were used by the first-born, when they offered sacrifice.
(St. Jerome, q. Hebrews.)_...
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Is not this a very apt similitude of Him, who assumed our likeness,
the likeness, as the apostle terms it, of sinful flesh; and was made
sin for us, though he knew no sin, that we might be made the
ri...
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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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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 REBEKAH TOOK GOODLY GARMENTS OF HER ELDEST SON ESAU,.... Or
"desirable" q ones, exceeding good ones:
WHICH [WERE] WITH HER IN THE HOUSE; which she had the care and keeping
of, and were wore only...
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And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which [were]
with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
Ver. 15. _And Rebekah took goodly raiment._] The priestly garments...
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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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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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GOODLY:
_ Heb._ desirable...
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6-17 Rebekah knew that the blessing was intended for Jacob, and
expected he would have it. But she wronged Isaac by putting a cheat on
him; she wronged Jacob by tempting him to wickedness. She put a...
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Either the sacerdotal garments which the eldest son wore in the
administration of that office which belonged to him; or rather some
other suit better than ordinary....
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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 27:15 Rebekah H7259 took H3947 (H8799) choice H2532 clothes
H899 elder H1419 son H1121 Esau H6215 house...
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‘And he went and fetched what was required and brought them to his
mother, and his mother made savoury meat such as his father loved. And
Rebekah took the fine clothes of Esau her elder son, which wer...
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THE COURTYARD OF THE TABERNACLE (EXODUS 27:9).
Before and around the sanctuary was a large courtyard into which the
people themselves could come. They could not enter the sanctuary, only
the chosen pr...
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Genesis 27:1. And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his
eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest
son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, her...
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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 he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother_
REBEKAH’S CUNNING PLOT ACCEPTED AND CARRIED OUT BY JACOB
I. REVEALS SOME QUALITIES OF JACOB’S CHARACTER.
1. He was a weak and pliable man....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 27:15. Goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau.] Heb. _The
desirable garments._ The choicest garments belonging to Esau were put
upon Jacob. From Genesis 27:27 it would appear t...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 27:15
AND REBEKAH TOOK GOODLY RAIMENT OF HER ELDEST SON ESAU,—literally,
the _robes of Esau her son the elder—the desirable_,_ _i.e. the
handsome ones. The בֶּגֶד was an outer garm...
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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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goodly raiment. Heb. desirable. Genesis 27:27...