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Verse Genesis 27:40. _BY THY SWORD SHALT THOU LIVE_] This does not
absolutely mean that the Edomites should have constant wars; but that
they should be of a fierce and warlike disposition, gaining th...
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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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SERVE. See 1 Samuel 14:47. 2Sa 8:14. 2 Kings 8:20, and compare 1 Kings
22:47.
THOU SHALT BREAK. Fulfilled in 2 Kings 8:20;...
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_by thy sword_ The soil will not furnish means of subsistence. The
life of marauders dwelling in mountain fastnesses is here depicted.
They will raid their brother's borders. They will cut off the
mer...
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BY THY SWORD SHALT THOU LIVE, &C.— The elder branch, it is here
foretold, should delight more in war and violence, but yet should be
subdued by the younger; _and by thy sword shalt thou live, and shal...
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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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27:40 rovest (c-22) Or 'hast acquired rule.'...
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SHALT SERVE THY BROTHER] Throughout OT. history we read of the
subjugation of the Edomites to Israel, varied by their throwing off
the yoke in troublous times: see 2 Samuel 8:14; 1 Kings 11; 1 Kings 1...
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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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When Jacob came to Isaac, Isaac thought that he was Esau. (See verse
27.) He did not know which of his sons he was blessing. But he did
know things that happened very many years later. He knew because...
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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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WHEN THOU SHALT HAVE THE DOMINION. — This rendering of a rare and
difficult Hebrew word is scarcely more than a guess made by two or
three ancient Jewish commentators. Its real meaning here, and in
Je...
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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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And (i) by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt (k) serve thy brother;
and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou
shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
(i) Because your...
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Thy brother, in the reign of David, 2 Kings viii. 14, and of the
Machabees. (Josephus, Antiquities xiii. 17.) --- Yoke. When the house
of Juda shall rebel against the Lord, in the days of Joram, then...
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There is nothing here which distinguisheth Jesus. Lord! give me him
for my portion, and in him I have all. Hosea 2:18; Ephesians 1:3....
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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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40._By thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother_. It is
to be observed that events are here predicted which were never
fulfilled in the person of Esau; and therefore, that the prophecy i...
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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 BY THY SWORD SHALT THOU LIVE,.... By what he could get by it; his
land being so poor that he could not live upon it, but must be obliged
to such methods for a livelihood; or his country being surr...
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And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it
shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt
break his yoke from off thy neck.
Ver. 40. _When thou shalt...
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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 by thy sword shalt thou live, war, pillage, and robbery being
almost necessary in the barren land which would be his habitation, AND
SHALT SERVE THY BROTHER; AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS WHEN THOU SH...
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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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BY THY SWORD SHALT THOU LIVE; by violence and rapine, in an unquiet
and military posture, troubling others, and forced to defend thyself.
But this, as also the following clause, though spoken to Esau,...
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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 27:40 sword H2719 live H2421 (H8799) serve H5647 (H8799)
brother H251 restless H7300 (H8686) break...
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‘And Isaac his father answered and said to him, “Behold, from the
fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and from the dew of heaven
from above. And by your sword you will live, and you will serve...
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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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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 27:40 YOU SHALL BREAK HIS YOKE FROM YOUR
NECK. Although Jacob has been given authority over his older twin
brother, Esau will eventually free himself from his brother’s
control...
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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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thy sword. Genesis 32:6 Matthew 10:34 serve. Genesis 25:23 2 Samuel
8:14...