“ And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. ”
- 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...
And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am .
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...
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...
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...
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...
Son_2:13; Son_4:12-13; Son_7:11-12. These scriptures prove the spirituality carried on through the whole of this transaction.
And said, [art] thou my very son Esau ?.... Still having some doubt on his mind whether he really was so or not, because of his voice: and he said, I [am] ; as for the observation of Jarchi upon t...
And he said, [Art] thou my very son Esau? And he said, I [am]. Ver. 24. Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. ] Thus one sin entertained fetcheth in another; a lie especially, which, being...
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...
The Fraud of Jacob. B. C. 1760. 18 And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and...
No text from Poole on this verse.
‘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...
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 27:1-4 . 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...
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...
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...
Isaac Blesses Jacob
I am. 1 Samuel 21:2 1 Samuel 21:13 1 Samuel 27:10 2 Samuel 14:5 Job 13:7 Job 13:8 Job 15:5 Proverbs 12:19 Proverbs 12:22 Proverbs 30:8 Zechariah 8:16 Romans 3:7 Romans 3:8...