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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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_an exceeding … cry_ These are the words to which reference is made
in Hebrews 12:17. Esau had hoped to win back through his father's
fondness the privileges which he himself had bartered away through...
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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 IT CAME TO PASS, AS SOON AS ISAAC HAD MADE AN END OF BLESSING
JACOB, AND JACOB WAS YET SCARCE GONE OUT FROM THE PRESENCE OF ISAAC
HIS FATHER, THAT ESAU HIS BROTHER CAME IN FROM HIS HUNTING._
Esa...
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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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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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כִּ שְׁמֹ֤עַ עֵשָׂו֙ אֶת ־דִּבְרֵ֣י
אָבִ֔יו ו
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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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_Roared, through savage fury and envy of his brother. (Eusebius)
(Menochius)_...
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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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_A PENITENT’S PRAYER_
‘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.’
Genesis 27:34
No...
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34._He cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry_. Though Esau
persists in imploring the blessing, he yet gives a sign of
desperation, which is the reason why he obtains no benefit, because he
enter...
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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 WHEN ESAU HEARD THE WORDS OF HIS FATHER,.... That another person
had been before him, and got the blessing; and especially when he
heard this ratified, and confirmed, and made irrevocable:
HE CRI...
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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.
Ver. 34. _He cried with a great and excee...
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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 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. He now realized, when it was too late, what...
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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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HE CRIED WITH A GREAT AND EXCEEDING BITTER CRY, not for any sense of
his former sin, in despising his birthright, but for grief at his
great loss therein, because God would not suffer him to be perjur...
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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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‘When Esau heard the words of his father he cried with an extremely
loud and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me
also, oh my father.”
Esau too is distraught. All he had hoped for h...
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Genesis 27:34
No one can read this chapter without feeling some pity for Esau. All
his hopes were disappointed in a moment. He had built much upon this
blessing, for in his youth he had sold his birth...
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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 27:30 IS HE NOT RIGHTLY NAMED JACOB? FOR HE
HAS CHEATED ME THESE TWO TIMES (v. Genesis 27:36). Esau refers here to
the name “Jacob,” whic
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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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he cried. 1 Samuel 30:4 Proverbs 1:24 Proverbs 1:31 Proverbs 19:3...