Genesis 27:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing. ”

Genesis 27:12 - 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...
Genesis 27:12 - 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...
Genesis 27:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

seem. He shrinks, not from the fraud, but from its detection.
Genesis 27:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing. I shall bring a curse upon me - For even in those early times the sp...
Genesis 27:12 - 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...
Genesis 27:12 - 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...
Genesis 27:12 - 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...
Genesis 27:12 - 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...
Genesis 27:12 - 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...
Genesis 27:12 - 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...
Genesis 27:12 - 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...
Genesis 27:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

My father peradventure will feel me ,.... For, though he could not see him, and so discern whether he had any hair or no on him, yet, suspecting him by his voice, he might call him to him to feel hi...
Genesis 27:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing. Ver. 12. My father peradventure will feel me. ] Our heavenly Fa...
Genesis 27:12 - 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...
Genesis 27:12 - 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...
Genesis 27:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I shall appear to him to be indeed a deceiver, one that abuseth his age and blindness. The particle as sometimes signifies not the likeness, but the truth of the thing, 1 Thessalonians 1:14 2 C...
Genesis 27:12 - 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...
Genesis 27:12 - 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...
Genesis 27:12 - 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...
Genesis 27:12 - 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...
Genesis 27:12 - 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...
Genesis 27:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Rebekah Arranges to have Jacob Blessed First
Genesis 27:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

feel. Genesis 27:22 Job 12:16 2 Corinthians 6:8 a deceiver. Genesis 27:36 Genesis 25:27 1 Thessalonians 5:22 and I shall. Genesis 9:25 Deuteronomy 27:18 Jeremiah 48:10 Malachi 1:14...

Genesis 27:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 27:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 27:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Genesis 27:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 27:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 27:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 27:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 27:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Genesis 27:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 27:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 27:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 27:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 27:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 27:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 27:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 27:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 27:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 27:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 27:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Genesis 27:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 27:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 27:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 27:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge