Genesis 27:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: ”

• Genesis 27:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  - 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...

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• Genesis 27:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 po...

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• Genesis 27:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  11. And Jacob said to Rebekah. That Jacob does not voluntarily present himself to his father, but rather fears lest, his imposture being detected, he should bring a curse upon himself, is ver...

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• Genesis 27:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:

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• Genesis 27:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man: Jacob said ... Esau ... a hairy man. It is remarkable that his scruples were founded not o...

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• Genesis 27:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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 t...

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• Genesis 27:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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 hi...

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• Genesis 27:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  JACOB'S FRAUD Genesis 27:1-46 "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 a...

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• Genesis 27:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Rebekah Plans to Cheat Isaac Genesis 27:1-17 This chapter narrates a sad story of the chosen family. Esau is the only character which elicits universal sympathy. Isaac appears to have sunk into...

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• Genesis 27:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 dege...

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• Genesis 27:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Is not this a very apt similitude of Him, who assumed our likeness, the likeness, as the apostle terms it, of sinful flesh; and was made sin for us, though he knew no sin, that we might be made the r...

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• Genesis 27:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother ,.... Being timorous lest he should do an ill thing, and be accounted a deceiver, and bring a curse upon himself: behold, Esau my brother [is] a hairy man ; co...

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• Genesis 27:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother [is] a hairy man, and I [am] a smooth man: Ver. 11. Esau my brother is a hairy man. ] This Rebekah thought not of. Plus vident oculi,...

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• Genesis 27:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Genesis 27:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying,   7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee...

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• Genesis 27:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Genesis 27:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Courtyard of The Tabernacle ( Exodus 27:9-19 ). Before and around the sanctuary was a large courtyard into which the people themselves could come. They could not enter the sanctuary, only the...

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• Genesis 27:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Genesis 27:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Genesis 27:1-4 . 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, Behol...

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• Genesis 27:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Genesis 27:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Genesis 27:1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, —according to the generally accepted calculation, in his one hundred and thirty-seventh year. Joseph, having been intr...

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• Genesis 27:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Rebekah Arranges to have Jacob Blessed First

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• Genesis 27:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  hairy man. Genesis 25:25

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