Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Genesis 27:4
that my soul may bless thee Cf. 19, 25, 31. See note on Genesis 12:13. A sacrificial meal is not intended. The strengthening food is from the chase, not the flesh of domestic animals.
that my soul may bless thee Cf. 19, 25, 31. See note on Genesis 12:13. A sacrificial meal is not intended. The strengthening food is from the chase, not the flesh of domestic animals.
Verse Genesis 27:4. _SAVOURY MEAT_] מטעמים _matammim_, from טעם _taam_, to _taste_ or _relish_; how dressed we know not, but its name declares its nature. _THAT I MAY EAT_] The blessing which Isaac...
- 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...
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 ...
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...
SUCH AS. LOVE. See verses: Genesis 27:27; Genesis 27:9; Genesis 27:14 and Genesis 25:28. MY SOUL. myself. Hebrew. _nephesh._ Ap
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...
_AND MAKE ME SAVOURY MEAT, SUCH AS I LOVE, AND BRING IT TO ME, THAT I MAY EAT; THAT MY SOUL MAY BLESS THEE BEFORE I DIE._ Make me savoury meat х_ MAT`AMIYM_ (H4303), or feminine, _ MAT`AMOWT_ (H4303)...
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...
THAT MY SOUL MAY BLESS THEE BEFORE I DIE] In purposing to give the blessing to Esau, his firstborn son, Isaac was acting in opposition to the expressed decree of God: see Genesis 25:23. 5-14. Rebekah...
In ancient times, before a father died, he gave *blessings to his sons. The *blessing to his oldest son was the most important one. It showed clearly that he had the right of the oldest son. So Isaac...
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....
SAVOURY MEAT. — On the rare occasions on which an Arab sheik tastes flesh, it is flavoured with almonds, pistachio nuts, and raisins. It would thus not be easy for Isaac to distinguish the taste of th...
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...
וַ עֲשֵׂה ־לִ֨י מַטְעַמִּ֜ים כַּ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אָהַ
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-...
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...
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...
Despite the marriages, Isaac continued to love Esau more than Jacob. His advancing years convinced Isaac it was time to give the blessing, which normally went with the birthright, to Esau. He intended...
And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring [it] to me, that I may eat; that my (a) soul may bless thee before I die. (a) The carnal affection he had for his son made him forget what God spok...
_That, &c. He does not mean, that the meat would induce him to give his blessing. Neither can we suppose, that he intended to pervert the order of God, in making the younger son subject to the elder,...
This blessing was the same as that mentioned, Genesis 28:4....
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...
4._That my soul may bless thee_. Wonderfully was the faith of the holy man blended with a foolish and inconsiderate carnal affection. The general principle of faith flourishes in his mind, when, in bl...
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...
AND MAKE ME SAVOURY MEAT, SUCH AS I LOVE,.... For, though he had lost his sight, he had not lost his taste, nor his appetite for savoury food: AND BRING [IT] TO ME, THAT I MAY EAT; this, was enjoined...
And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring [it] to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die. Ver. 4. _That my soul may bless thee before I die._] The words of dying men a...
Gen. 27:4. It was probably the manner, in those days, for parents, when they grew old and expected to die in a little time, to make a feast and to eat and drink with their children, when they gave the...
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...
and make me savory meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die. It was not the sudden whim of an old man which was here revealed, but a carefully...
Isaac Prepares to Bless Esau...
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...
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...
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...
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 pr...
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...
Genesis 27:4 make H6213 (H8798) food H4303 as H834 love H157 (H8804) bring H935 (H8685) eat...
THE BLESSING OF ESAU AND JACOB (GENESIS 26:34 TO GENESIS 27:45). This passage was recorded in writing because it records the blessings given to Jacob and Esau which were in the nature of a binding cov...
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...
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...
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...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 27:4 THAT MY SOUL MAY BLESS YOU BEFORE I DIE. Isaac intends that his blessing for Esau will establish the identity of the heir to the promises God had given to Abraham and Isaa...
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...
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...
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...
that I may eat. that my. Genesis 27:7 Genesis 27:23 Genesis 27:25 Genesis 27:27...