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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 (Gen...
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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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SCARCE GONE OUT. Hebrew "going was gone". Figure of speech
_Polyptoton,_ for emph.; well represented by the word "scarce". See
note on Genesis 26:28....
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_Jacob was yet … out_ These words dramatically represent to us the
rapid succession of the two scenes, and remind us that, had Esau
arrived a few minutes earlier, the _dénouement_would have been
entir...
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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 s...
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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. I...
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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
jou...
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וַ יְהִ֗י כַּ אֲשֶׁ֨ר כִּלָּ֣ה
יִצְחָק֮ לְ בָרֵ֣ךְ אֶֽת ־יַעֲקֹב֒ וַ
יְהִ֗י אַ֣ךְ יָצֹ֤א...
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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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It is probable that by this time, Isaac had learnt that the thing was
of God. He now speaks positively that the blessing is sure....
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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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30._Jacob was yet scarce gone out_. Here is added the manner in which
Esau was repulsed, which circumstance availed not a little to confirm
the benediction to Jacob: for if Esau had not been rejected,...
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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 IT CAME TO PASS, AS SOON AS ISAAC HAD MADE AN END OF,
BLESSING JACOB,.... So that he had the whole entire blessing, and
nothing wanting; and takes in blessings of all sorts, temporal,
spiritual,...
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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._
Ver...
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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 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. It...
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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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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 27:30 Isaac H3327 finished H3615 (H8765) blessing H1288
(H8763) Jacob H3290 Jacob H3290 scarcely H389 H3318 (H8800) out H3318
(H8804) presence H6440 Isaac H3327 father H1 Esau H6215 brother H2...
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‘And it happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing
Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of his
father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. And he also
mad...
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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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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,” which means “to deceive/cheat” (see note on...
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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 o...
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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 27:30...