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Verse Genesis 27:5. _AND REBEKAH HEARD_] And was determined, if
possible, to frustrate the design of Isaac, and procure the blessing
for her favourite son. Some pretend that she received a _Divine_
_...
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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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HEARD. Hebrew was listening.
SPAKE. Hebrew was speaking...
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_GENESIS 27:5_, &C. _AND REBEKAH,_ &C.— Rebekah, acquainted with the
Divine will concerning the channel in which the grand promise was to
pass, resolved to do her part towards preventing the ill effec...
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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 REBEKAH HEARD WHEN ISAAC SPAKE TO ESAU HIS SON. AND ESAU WENT TO
THE FIELD TO HUNT FOR VENISON, AND TO BRING IT._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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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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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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REBEKAH HEARD. — She was possibly present when Isaac gave the order,
and he may even have wished her to know his determination to give the
blessing to his favourite son. But the words filled her with...
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וְ רִבְקָ֣ה שֹׁמַ֔עַת בְּ דַבֵּ֣ר
יִצְחָ֔ק אֶ
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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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There is not a passage in scripture which needs more the enlightening
influences of the Holy Ghost to guide into all truth, than these
verses. Various have been the opinions of Commentators upon the
t...
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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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_A GAME OF CROSS-PURPOSES_
‘And Rebekah heard … and Rebekah spake.’
Genesis 27:5
Isaac and Rebekah are not blameless in the matter of their
children’s sins. If their home is religious, it is not th...
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5._And Rebekah heard_. Moses now explains more fully the artifice by
which Jacob attained the blessing. It truly appears ridiculous, that
an old man, deceived by the cunning of his wife, should, throu...
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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 HEARD WHEN ISAAC SPAKE TO ESAU HIS SON,.... She might hear
Isaac call to him by one means or another, that he had sent for him,
or might see him go into his father's tent, and might stand...
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And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to
the field to hunt [for] venison, [and] to bring [it].
Ver. 5. _Esau went to the field to hunt, &c._] But before he
returned, the b...
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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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1-5 The promises of the Messiah, and of the land of Canaan, had come
down to Isaac. Isaac being now about 135 years of age, and his sons
about 75, and not duly considering the Divine word concerning h...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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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 27:5 Rebekah H7259 listening H8085 (H8802) Isaac H3327 spoke
H1696 (H8763) Esau H6215 son H1121 Esau...
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‘And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went
into the open country to hunt for venison and to bring it.'
There was no reason why Rebekah should not have been in the tent when
Isa...
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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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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 27:5 REBEKAH WAS LISTENING. Rebekah plans
Jacob’s deception, but Jacob is still responsible for the part he
plays in this trick....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 27:3. Take some venison.] Heb. _Hunt a hunt for me._ “What
this hunt should be except of the deer or gazelle, does not appear.
And hence it is not surprising that kids of the...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 27:1
AND IT CAME TO PASS, THAT WHEN ISAAC WAS OLD,—according to the
generally accepted calculation, in his one hundred and thirty-seventh
year. Joseph, having been introduced to Ph...
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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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Genesis 27:5...