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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 HE CAME UNTO HIS FATHER, AND SAID, MY FATHER: AND HE SAID, HERE
AM I; WHO ART THOU, MY SON?_
He came unto his father. The scheme planned by the mother was to be
executed by the son in the father...
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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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Isaac himself had lied. He lied when he called Rebekah his sister.
(See Genesis 26:7.) And in these verses, Jacob lies several times to
Isaac....
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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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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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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...
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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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Son_2:13; Son_4:12-13; Son_7:11-12. These scriptures prove the
spirituality carried on through the whole of this transaction....
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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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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 SAID, [ART] THOU MY VERY SON ESAU?.... Still having some doubt on
his mind whether he really was so or not, because of his voice:
AND HE SAID, I [AM]; as for the observation of Jarchi upon this,...
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And he said, [Art] thou my very son Esau? And he said, I [am].
Ver. 24. _Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am._] Thus one sin
entertained fetcheth in another; a lie especially, which, being a...
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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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Isaac Blesses Jacob...
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And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. This bold
answer settled the doubts of Isaac to such an extent that he was ready
for the meal....
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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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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...
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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 27:24 said H559 (H8799) son H1121 Esau H6215 said H559 (H8799)
I am - 1 Samuel 21:2,...
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‘And he came to his father and said, “My father.” And he said,
“Here I am. Who are you my son?”
Jacob comes, no doubt trembling, to his father, honing the skills of
deception that he will use so effe...
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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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_And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother_
REBEKAH’S CUNNING PLOT ACCEPTED AND CARRIED OUT BY JACOB
I. REVEALS SOME QUALITIES OF JACOB’S CHARACTER.
1. He was a weak and pliable man....
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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 27:15
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...
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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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I am. 1 Samuel 21:2 1 Samuel 21:13 1 Samuel 27:10 2 Samuel 14:5 Job
13:7