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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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WEPT. See Hebrews 12:17, but could not change his father's mind....
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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 HE SAID, IS NOT HE RIGHTLY NAMED JACOB? FOR HE HATH SUPPLANTED ME
THESE TWO TIMES: HE TOOK AWAY MY BIRTHRIGHT; AND, BEHOLD, NOW HE HATH
TAKEN AWAY MY BLESSING. AND HE SAID, HAST THOU NOT RESERVED...
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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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HAST THOU BUT ONE BLESSING? — Only one son could inherit the
spiritual prerogatives of the birthright, and the temporal lordship
which accompanied it. And even lower earthly blessings would avail
litt...
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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 יֹּ֨אמֶר עֵשָׂ֜ו אֶל ־אָבִ֗יו הַֽ
בְרָכָ֨ה
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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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ESAU'S GRIEF AND ANGER
Genesis 27:30
Esau apparently had awakened to realize the value of the blessing of
the birthright which he had treated so lightly. His exceeding great
and bitter cry expressed...
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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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ESAU'S DESPAIR
Almost as soon as Jacob had left, Esau returned with the meat he had
killed and prepared. Isaac asked who he was. As soon as Esau
identified himself, Isaac realized the deception which...
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No: there are not two Saviours. Jesus is one, and there is no other.
Acts 4:12. Melancholy consideration in those who can be satisfied in
secondary blessings. See Hebrews 12:17....
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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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38._Hast thou but one blessing _? Esau seems to take courage; but he
neglects the care of his soul, and turns, like a swine, to the
pampering of his flesh. He had heard that his father had nothing lef...
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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 ESAU SAID UNTO HIS FATHER, HAST THOU BUT ONE BLESSING, MY
FATHER?.... He seems to speak diminutively of what had been given to
Jacob, calling it one blessing: whereas there were many, and of
diffe...
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And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father?
bless me, [even] me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice,
and wept.
Ver. 38. _Esau lifted up his voice, and wept._] Ye...
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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 Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father?
Bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice and
wept. It is to this scene that Hebrews 12:17 refers, for Esa...
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ESAU RETURNS AND RECEIVES THE YOUNGER SON'S BLESSING...
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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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30-40 When Esau understood that Jacob had got the blessing, he cried
with a great and exceeding bitter cry. The day is coming, when those
that now make light of the blessings of the covenant, and sel...
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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
exce...
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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 27:38 Esau H6215 said H559 (H8799) father H1 one H259 blessing
H1293 father H1 Bless H1288 ...
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‘And Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing my
father. Bless me, even me also, oh my father.” And Esau raised his
voice and wept.
In his disappointment and anguish Esau seeks for some cr...
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AND ESAU
Esau wept because of a lost advantage, but "found no way to change his
mind, though he sought it carefully with tears" (Hebrews 12:17) so far
may regret or remorse be from true repentance:...
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Genesis 27:38
I. The character of Esau has unquestionably a fair side. Esau was by
no means a man of unqualified wickedness or baseness; judged according
to the standard of many men, he would pass for...
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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 when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great
and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me
also, O my father_
ESAU’S CRY
No one can read this chapter w...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 27:39. Thy dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, and
of the dew of heaven from above.] The preposition is here used in a
_privative_ sense, _apart from the fatness of...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 27:30
AND IT CAME TO PASS (literally, _and it _was), AS SOON AS ISAAC HAD
MADE AN END OF BLESSING JACOB, AND JACOB WAS YET SCARCE GONE
OUT—literally, _and it was _(_sc_._ _as soon...
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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 27:34 Genesis 27:36 Genesis 49:28 Proverbs 1:24 Isaia