“ And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death: ”
- 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...
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...
2. Behold, now I am old, I know not the day of my death. There is not the least doubt that Isaac implored daily blessings on his sons all his life: this, therefore, appears to have been an ex...
And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death: I know not the day of my death - From his present weakness he had reason to suppose that his death could not be at any great distanc...
And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death: No JFB commentary on these verses.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Dying patriarchs always called their households round them. Genesis 49:1 ; Deuteronomy 33:1 .
And he said, behold, now I am old ,.... Genesis 27:1 : I know not the day of my death ; how soon it will be; everyone knows he must die, but the day and hour he knows not, neither young nor old;...
And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death: Ver. 2. I am old, I know not the day of my death. ] No more doth any, though never so young. There be as many young skulls as old...
I know not the day of my death How soon I may die; a declaration which every man may make, and which every man ought well to consider, and lay to heart. It is great mercy and wisdom in God to conce...
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...
Rebekah's Contrivance. B. C. 1760. 1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and h...
No text from Poole on this verse.
The Blessing of Esau and Jacob ( Genesis 26:34 to Genesis 27:45 ). This passage was recorded in writing because it records the blessings given to Jacob and Esau which were in the nature of a bin...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 27:3 . Take some venison.] Heb. Hunt a hunt for me. “What this hunt should be except of the deer or gazelle, does not appear. And hence it is not surprising that kids o...
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 27:1 . 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...
Isaac was old and his eyes were dim Isaac in the near prospect of death I. HE HAS WARNINGS OF HIS APPROACHING END. 1. His advanced age. 2. Signs of weakness and decay. II. HE SETS IN O...
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...
Isaac Prepares to Bless Esau
I know not. Genesis 48:21 1 Samuel 20:3 Proverbs 27:1 Ecclesiastes 9:10 Isaiah 38:1 Isaiah 38:3 Mark 13:35 James 4:14
I am old, and know not the day of my death — How soon I may die.