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Verse Genesis 27:35. _HATH TAKEN AWAY THY BLESSING._] This blessing,
which was a different thing from the birthright, seems to consist of
_two_ _parts_:
1. The dominion, generally and finally, over t...
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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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_Thy brother … guile_ Isaac at once concludes that the deceiver was
Jacob, and acknowledges that Jacob's trick has succeeded....
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DISCOURSE: 42
JACOB OBTAINING THE BLESSING
Genesis 27:35._ And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath
taken away thy blessing._
IT is not within the reach of our limited capacity to concei...
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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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וַ יֹּ֕אמֶר בָּ֥א אָחִ֖יךָ בְּ
מִרְמָ֑ה וַ
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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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_ Deceitfully. Hebrew, slily; directed by wisdom, as the Chaldean has
it. St. Chrysostom (de sacerd.) praises the address of Jacob on this
occasion. (Calmet)_...
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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 HE SAID, THY BROTHER CAME WITH SUBTILTY,.... The Targums of
Onkelos and Jonathan, and so Jarchi, interpret it, "with wisdom",
taking it in a good sense, and as excusing the fact; or rather
commend...
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And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy
blessing.
Ver. 35. _Thy brother came with subtilty._] Junius observes, that
Isaac here, to please his son, committeth some oversig...
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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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ESAU RETURNS AND RECEIVES THE YOUNGER SON'S BLESSING...
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And he said, Thy brother came with subtlety, and hath taken away thy
blessing. That was the human side of the happening, the deception, the
error and sin which had crept into the business....
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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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Which was thine by the right of nature, and by custom of nations, and
by my hearty desire and intention, as well as by thy own expectation
and opinion....
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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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‘And he said, “Your brother came with guile and has taken away
your blessing.”
The answer is basically, ‘no'. What he has given he has given. He
cannot take it back or change it in spite of the way i...
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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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Genesis 27:19 2 Kings 10:19 Job 13:7 Malachi 2:10 Romans 3:7...