“ And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away; ”
- 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...
a few days. Rebekah mistaken, for he was there 20 years. Until. Figure of speech Synonymia.
44. And tarry with him a few days. This circumstance mitigates the severity of banishment. For the shortness of the time of suffering avails not a little to support us in adversity. And it wa...
And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away; Tarry with him a few days - It was probably forty years before he returned, and it is likely Rebekah saw him no more; for it is the...
And these words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah: and she sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, pur...
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 tarry with him a few days ,.... Which Aben Ezra interprets a few years; rather, as Hiscuni, one year; perhaps it may be better should it be said one or two years; but instead of so short a time...
And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away; Ver. 44. Tarry with him a few days. ] Heb., unos dies. Sed facti sunt viginti anni. She reckoned upon a few days; but it proved...
Tarry with him a few days Which proved to be above twenty years. Why should I be deprived of you both in one day? Of one by murder, and the other by the hand of justice, ( Genesis 9:6 ,) or by so...
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...
Jacob's Life Threatened by Esau. B. C. 1760. 41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the bl...
A few days; so she expected and intended, but was greatly disappointed, for he tarried there twenty years.
‘And the words of Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah, and she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, “Look, your brother Esau consoles himself about you with the thought of killi...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 27:45 . Why should I be deprived also of you both in one day? If Esau killed Jacob, she must lose them both, for the avenger of blood would punish Esau with death. MAIN...
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...
Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing. Esau’s resentment I. IT WAS CARNAL. II. IT WAS OVER-RULED FOR GOOD. ( T. H. Leale. ) Lessons 1. Esau’s wicked hypocrites hate always bitterly th...
EXPOSITION Genesis 27:41 And Esau hated Jacob —a proof that he was not penitent, however disappointed and remorseful (cf. Obadiah 1:10 , Obadiah 1:11 ; 1 John 3:12 , 1 John 3:15 )— bec...
Esau's Hatred of Jacob
a few days. Genesis 31:38