Genesis 27:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him. ”

Genesis 27:23 - 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 27:23 - 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 27:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him. And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy - From this circumstance we may learn th...
Genesis 27:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son? He came unto his father. The scheme planned by the mother was to be executed by the son in the...
Genesis 27:23 - 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 27:23 - 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 27:23 - 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 27:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jacob Gets Esau's Blessing Genesis 27:18-29 It is better not to attempt to justify Jacob in this act of treachery; but we may learn the deep and helpful lesson, that if God were able to make a...
Genesis 27:23 - 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 27:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Son_2:13; Son_4:12-13; Son_7:11-12. These scriptures prove the spirituality carried on through the whole of this transaction.
Genesis 27:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he discerned him not ,.... As he could not see, he could make no judgment by that sense; and, though he had his hearing, and thought the voice was like Jacob's, he might imagine there might be a...
Genesis 27:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him. Ver. 23. So he blessed him. ] See Trapp on " Gen 27:25 "
Genesis 27:23 - 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 27:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Fraud of Jacob. B. C. 1760. 18 And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and...
Genesis 27:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

He discerned him not, because all his senses were not only dulled with age and infirmity, but also held by Divine Providence, as theirs, Luke 24:16 , for the bringing about his own purpose; so t...
Genesis 27:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And he came to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you my son?” Jacob comes, no doubt trembling, to his father, honing the skills of deception that he will use so ef...
Genesis 27:23 - 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 27:23 - 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 27:23 - 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 27:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother Rebekah’s cunning plot accepted and carried out by Jacob I. REVEALS SOME QUALITIES OF JACOB’S CHARACTER. 1. He was a weak and pliable...
Genesis 27:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 27:15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau ,—literally, the robes of Esau her son the elder—the desirable , i.e. the handsome ones. The בֶּגֶד was a...
Genesis 27:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaac Blesses Jacob
Genesis 27:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

his hands. Genesis 27:16 he blessed. Romans 9:11 Romans 9:12 Hebrews 11:20

Genesis 27:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 27:23 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 27:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 27:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 27:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 27:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 27:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Genesis 27:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 27:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 27:23 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 27:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 27:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 27:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 27:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 27:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 27:23 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 27:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 27:23 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Genesis 27:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 27:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 27:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 27:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 27:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge