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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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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 JACOB SAID TO REBEKAH HIS MOTHER, BEHOLD, ESAU MY BROTHER IS A
HAIRY MAN, AND I AM A SMOOTH MAN:_
Jacob said ... Esau ... a hairy man. It is remarkable that his
scruples were founded not on the...
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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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HAIRY MAN] see Genesis 25:25....
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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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וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר יַעֲקֹ֔ב אֶל ־רִבְקָ֖ה
אִמֹּ֑ו הֵ
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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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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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11._And Jacob said to Rebekah_. That Jacob does not voluntarily
present himself to his father, but rather fears lest, his imposture
being detected, he should bring a curse upon himself, is very contra...
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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 JACOB SAID TO REBEKAH HIS MOTHER,.... Being timorous lest he
should do an ill thing, and be accounted a deceiver, and bring a curse
upon himself:
BEHOLD, ESAU MY BROTHER [IS] A HAIRY MAN; covered...
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And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother [is] a
hairy man, and I [am] a smooth man:
Ver. 11. _Esau my brother is a hairy man._] This Rebekah thought not
of. _Plus vident oculi, q...
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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 Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, Behold, Esau, my brother, is a
hairy man, and I am a smooth man;...
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Rebekah Arranges to have Jacob Blessed First...
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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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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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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 27:11 Jacob H3290 said H559 (H8799) Rebekah H7259 mother H517
Esau H6215 brother H251 hairy H8163 man...
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‘And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Look. Esau is a hairy man
and I am a smooth man. Perhaps my father will feel me and I will seem
to him as a deceiver. And I will bring a curse on me and not a
b...
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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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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 27:11 From birth, Esau was clearly
distinguished from Jacob by his HAIRY appearance (see Genesis 25:25)....
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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 27:1
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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hairy man. Genesis 25:25...