“ And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing. ”
- 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...
DISCOURSE: 42 JACOB OBTAINING THE BLESSING Genesis 27:35 . And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing. IT is not within the reach of our limited capacity to...
And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing. Hath taken away thy blessing - This blessing, which was a different thing from the birthright, seems to consist of two p...
And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting....
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...
Esau's Grief and Anger Genesis 27:30-45 Esau apparently had awakened to realize the value of the blessing of the birthright which he had treated so lightly. His exceeding great and bitter cry e...
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...
And he said, thy brother came with subtilty ,.... The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, and so Jarchi, interpret it, "with wisdom", taking it in a good sense, and as excusing the fact; or rather comm...
And he said, Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing. Ver. 35. Thy brother came with subtilty. ] Junius observes, that Isaac here, to please his son, committeth some overs...
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 Blessing Pronounced on Jacob and Esau. B. C. 1760. 30 And it came to pass, as soon...
Which was thine by the right of nature, and by custom of nations, and by my hearty desire and intention, as well as by thy own expectation and opinion.
‘And he said, “Your brother came with guile and has taken away your blessing.” The answer is basically, ‘no'. What he has given he has given. He cannot take it back or change it in spite of the way...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 27:39 . Thy dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above.] The preposition is here used in a privative sense, apart from the fatn...
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 when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father Esau’s cry No one can read this chapte...
EXPOSITION Genesis 27:30 And it came to pass (literally, and it was), as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out —literally, and it was ( s...
Esau Returns and Receives the Younger Son's Blessing
Genesis 27:19-23 2 Kings 10:19 Job 13:7 Malachi 2:10 Romans 3:7 Romans 3:8 2 Corinthians 4:7 1 Thessalonians 4:6