GENESIS CHAPTER 27 Isaac being aged, sends Esau for venison, that he might eat thereof, and bless him, GENESIS 27:1. Esau obeys his father, GENESIS 27:5. Rebekah hearing it, tells Jacob, GENESIS 27:6,7. Her contrivance and advice to him to intercept the blessing, GENESIS 27:8. Jacob is afraid of a c... [ Continue Reading ]
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THY QUIVER, or, as the Chaldee and Hebrew doctors render it, _thy sword; _ a weapon no less necessary for a hunter of beasts than a bow.... [ Continue Reading ]
QUEST. Why doth he require that he _may eat_ before he bless him? ANSW. 1. That being refreshed and delighted therewith, his spirit might be more cheerful, and so the fitter for the giving of this prophetical benediction; for which reason also the prophet Elisha called for a minstrel ere he could u... [ Continue Reading ]
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BEFORE THE LORD; solemnly, as in God's presence, in his name, and by his authority, and with his leave and favour, which I shall heartily pray for thee. So he signifies that this was more than an ordinary blessing which he now intended to give him.... [ Continue Reading ]
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It is observable, that as Jacob deceived his father by a kid, so his sons deceived him by the same creature, GENESIS 37:31. I WILL MAKE THEM SAVOURY MEAT, out of their most tender and delicate parts; wherewith it was not difficult to deceive Isaac, partly because of the likeness of the flesh, especi... [ Continue Reading ]
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I shall appear to him to be indeed a deceiver, one that abuseth his age and blindness. The particle _as_ sometimes signifies not the likeness, but the truth of the thing, 1 THESSALONIANS 1:14 2 CORINTHIANS 3:18. I SHALL BRING A CURSE UPON ME, which is due to every one that deceiveth the blind, DEUTE... [ Continue Reading ]
She saith so out of an assured confidence in the Divine oracle and promise.... [ Continue Reading ]
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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.... [ Continue Reading ]
Upon the two naked parts of his body, which were most likely to be discovered. As for his face, it is more than probable from his age, which was the same with Esau s, GENESIS 26:34, that nature had given him a covering like Esau s.... [ Continue Reading ]
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This cannot be excused, for it was a manifest untruth, and no less is all this following relation, though it pleased God graciously to pardon it; and notwithstanding these failings, to confer the blessing promised upon Jacob.... [ Continue Reading ]
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HE DISCERNED HIM NOT, because all his senses were not only dulled with age and infirmity, but also held by Divine Providence, as theirs, LUKE 24:16, for the bringing about his own purpose; so that it is no wonder he was so grossly deceived in the whole business.... [ Continue Reading ]
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Which he did, either that he might more fully satisfy himself concerning the person, or rather as a mark of that special favour and affection wherewith he bestowing the blessing. Compare GENESIS 48:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
Which is full of odoriferous herbs, and flowers, and fruits, and spices, with some of which Esau's garments might be perfumed in the chest wherein they were laid, as the manner now is. These garments smell not of the sheepcots and stables, as Jacob's do, but of the fields, in which Esau is conversan... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD GIVE THEE, or, _will give; _ for it is both a prayer and a prophecy. He mentions the DEW rather than the rain, because it was of more constant use and necessity in those parts than the rain, which fell considerably but twice in a year, the first being called the _former, _ and the other the _lat... [ Continue Reading ]
LET THY MOTHER'S SON BOW DOWN TO THEE. How and when this was fulfilled, see on GENESIS 25:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
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That Esau did not come to his father till the meat was dressed, may be ascribed partly to his own choice, that he might come with more acceptance; and partly to Rebekah, who could easily hinder his coming sooner by specious pretences and artifices.... [ Continue Reading ]
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ISAAC was filled with astonishment and horror in consideration of Jacob's fraud, and the sad disappointment and great misery of his beloved Esau, and his own rashness and folly in suffering his fond affection towards him to carry him headlong into an opposition to the Divine oracle, GENESIS 25:23, w... [ Continue Reading ]
HE CRIED WITH A GREAT AND EXCEEDING BITTER CRY, not for any sense of his former sin, in despising his birthright, but for grief at his great loss therein, because God would not suffer him to be perjured in keeping that birthright blessing which he had sold and sworn away. BLESS ME, EVEN ME ALSO, O M... [ Continue Reading ]
Which was thine by the right of nature, and by custom of nations, and by my hearty desire and intention, as well as by thy own expectation and opinion.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 brother's heels. HE TOOK AWAY MY BIRTHRIGHT; a false accusation; Jacob did not take it deceitfully,... [ Continue Reading ]
The blessing of Abraham is not at my disposal, but God s, who hath manifested his mind and will by my error; it cannot be divided into several hands, nor imparted to one, who, though my son, yet hath made himself unworthy of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAST THOU BUT ONE? By these words Esau manifests his profane and worldly mind, that he esteemed this blessing but as one among many others equal to it, and did not apprehend the true and peculiar excellency and absolute necessity of it, and that it was impossible for him or his posterity to be happy... [ Continue Reading ]
In a country competently fruitful and refreshed with convenient dews and showers. OBJECT. Thus Esau seems to have the same blessing which was before given to Jacob. ANSW. 1. Though it may seem to be the same as to the fertility of the soil, in which divers other parts of the world did and do equal t... [ Continue Reading ]
BY THY SWORD SHALT THOU LIVE; by violence and rapine, in an unquiet and military posture, troubling others, and forced to defend thyself. But this, as also the following clause, though spoken to Esau, was not fulfilled in him, but in his posterity the Edomites, whose history makes good this prophecy... [ Continue Reading ]
ESAU HATED JACOB; and this hatred was hereditary, extending to their posterity also. See EZEKIEL 35:5 AMOS 1:11 OBADIAH 1:10. ESAU SAID IN HIS HEART, within himself; although he could not contain it there, but declared his intentions to some of his confidants, by which means it came to Rebekah's ear... [ Continue Reading ]
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A FEW DAYS; so she expected and intended, but was greatly disappointed, for he tarried there twenty years.... [ Continue Reading ]
Of thee by Esau's bloody hands; and of Esau, who was likely to suffer death for his murder, either by the authority of the magistrate, as God commanded, GENESIS 9:6, or by the hand of God, who ofttimes supplies the magistrate's defects in that particular, and in some extraordinary manner executes th... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DAUGHTERS OF HETH, Esau's wives, who were Hittites, GENESIS 26:34. Therefore let us, after the example of Abraham, send him to fetch a wife from his own kindred. This indeed was one reason, but the other she conceals from Isaac; thus prudently alleging several reasons, one to Jacob, and another,... [ Continue Reading ]