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Genesis 27:28

Dew is water that appears on the ground. It comes out of the air, especially in the morning. The country where Isaac lived, *Canaan, had very little rain for a part of each year. So at that time, dew was very important.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 27:28. _GOD GIVE THEE OF THE DEW OF HEAVEN_] Bp. Newton's view of these predictions is so correct and appropriate, as to leave no wish for any thing farther on the subject. "It is here...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - 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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CORN. Put by _Metonymy_ (of the Cause), App-6, for bread and solid food generally. Compare Lamentations 2:12. WINE. Hebrew. _tirosh._ See App-27. Usually combined with "corn", as put by _Metonymy_ (o...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And God give thee_ The blessing of the firstborn in this and the following verse is solemnly pronounced by Isaac. It is irrevocable; see Genesis 27:33. It invokes (_a_) blessings of fertility upon th...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    GOD GIVE THEE, &C.— It is here foretold, and in Genesis 27:39 of these two brethren, that, as to situation and other temporal advantages, they should be much alike. It was said to Jacob, _God give the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEREFORE GOD GIVE THEE OF THE DEW OF HEAVEN, AND THE FATNESS OF THE EARTH, AND PLENTY OF CORN AND WINE:_ God give thee of the dew. To an Oriental mind this phraseology implied the highest flow of p...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DEW OF HEAVEN] greatly valued in hot climates where rain often does not fall from April to September....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEREFORE GOD GIVE THEE. — Heb., _And the Elohim give thee._ Here, as not unfrequently is the case, the name Elohim follows immediately upon that of Jehovah. As the blessings of dew and fertile land a...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ יִֽתֶּן ־לְךָ֙ הָ אֱלֹהִ֔ים מִ טַּל֙

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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-...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    JACOB GETS ESAU'S BLESSING Genesis 27:18 It is better not to attempt to justify Jacob in this act of treachery; but we may learn the deep and helpful lesson, that if God were able to make a saint out...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Wine. "By which Christ gathers together the multitude, in the Sacrament of his Body and Blood." (St. Augustine)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    See Hebrews 11:20. Reader! remember every other mercy centers in Christ. Psalms 72:17. Compare Numbers 23:7, and Numbers 23:19....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEREFORE GOD GIVE THEE OF THE DEW OF HEAVEN,.... Or "shall" or "will give thee" x, seeing he was blessed of God, and the blessed seed should spring from him, as well as his posterity should inherit t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:_ Ver. 28. _God give thee of the dew._] For that country was dry and thirsty. They had rain, s...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine. These were temporal gifts, of great importance in the country which Jacob and his children were...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Isaac Blesses Jacob...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    18-29 Jacob, with some difficulty, gained his point, and got the blessing. This blessing is in very general terms. No mention is made of the distinguishing mercies in the covenant with Abraham. This...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 27:28 God H430 give H5414 (H8799) dew H2919 heaven H8064 fatness H4924 earth H776 plenty H7230 grain...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And he said, “Bring it near to me and I will eat of my son's venison that my soul may bless you.” And he brought it near to him, and he ate, and he brought him wine, and he drank.' Now he calls on hi...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine_ ISAAC BLESSING JACOB I. WITH TEMPORAL BLESSINGS. 1. A fertile soil. 2. Abundance of provision. 3. P...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 27:27. And blessed him.] The blessing (Genesis 27:27) is in the form of poetic parallelism.— GENESIS 27:28. THE DEW OF HEAVEN, AND THE FATNESS OF THE EARTH.] In Palestine the...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 27:15 AND REBEKAH TOOK GOODLY RAIMENT OF HER ELDEST SON ESAU,—literally, the _robes of Esau her son the elder—the desirable_,_ _i.e. the handsome ones. The בֶּגֶד was an outer garm...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    of the dew. Deuteronomy 11:11 Deuteronomy 11:12 Deuteronomy 32:2 Deuteronomy 33:13...

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