Genesis 27:46 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me? ”

• Genesis 27:46 - 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...

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• Genesis 27:46 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the (o) daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these [which are] of the daughters of the land, (p) what...

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• Genesis 27:46 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Genesis 27:46 to Genesis 28:9 . Jacob is Sent from Home to Marry into his Mother's Family. The reader may readily suppose that Rebekah uses the unfortunate marriage of Esau as a pretext to hide...

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• Genesis 27:46 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  daughters of Heth. Refers to Esau's wives. Genesis 26:34 ; Genesis 26:35 . what good. Figure of speech Erotesis, and Figure of speech Aposiopesis, App-6, Literally "Wherefore to me life? "...

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• Genesis 27:46 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  46. And Rebekah said to Isaac. When Jacob might have fled secretly, his mother, nevertheless, obtains leave for his departure from his father; for so a well-ordered domestic government and di...

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• Genesis 27:46 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good sha...

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• Genesis 27:46 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  I am weary, &c.— See notes on ch. Genesis 26:34 , &c. The writers of the Universal History remark, that whosoever narrowly observes Jacob's life, after he had obtained his father's blessin...

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• Genesis 27:46 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good s...

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• Genesis 27:46 - 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...

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• Genesis 27:46 - 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...

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• Genesis 27:46 - 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...

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• Genesis 27:46 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Jacob Sent Away from Home Genesis 27:46 ; Genesis 28:1-9 Esau deferred the execution of his murderous purpose, because of the near approach, as he supposed, of his father's death. But Isaac li...

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• Genesis 27:46 - 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...

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• Genesis 27:46 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  In this expression of Rebekah's, was there not a believing reference to the promised seed? REFLECTIONS How sweet and precious is it, to behold dying believers anxious to give their last testimony,...

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• Genesis 27:46 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Rebekah said to Isaac ,.... Not what she had told Jacob concerning the enmity of Esau to Jacob, and his intention to kill him, lest it should grieve him, and bring his gray hairs with sorrow to...

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• Genesis 27:46 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these [which are] of the daughters of the land, what good sha...

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• Genesis 27:46 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth As Esau has done. More artifice still. This was not the thing she was afraid of. But if we use guile once, we shall be very ready to use it again. It s...

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• Genesis 27:46 - 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...

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• Genesis 27:46 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Jacob's Life Threatened by Esau. B. C. 1760.       41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the bl...

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• Genesis 27:46 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The daughters of Heth, Esau's wives, who were Hittites, Genesis 26:34 . Therefore let us, after the example of Abraham, send him to fetch a wife from his own kindred. This indeed was one reason,...

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• Genesis 27:46 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Genesis 27:46 - Scofield Reference Notes

  life ( Genesis 26:34 ); ( Genesis 26:35 ). Heth was ancestor of the Hittites.

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• Genesis 27:46 - 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...

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• Genesis 27:46 - The Biblical Illustrator

  I am weary of my life. --Throughout the whole of man’s marvellous pilgrimage on earth, or at least from the time that he became truly intelligent, the same haunting mysteries hover around him; the...

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• Genesis 27:46 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Genesis 27:46 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Esau's Hatred of Jacob

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• Genesis 27:46 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  I am. Numbers 11:15 1 Kings 19:4 Job 3:20-22 Job 7:16 Job 14:13 Jonah 4:3 Jonah 4:9 because. Genesis 26:34 Genesis 26:35 Genesis 28:8 Genesis 34:1 Genesis 34:2 if Jacob. Gene...

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• Genesis 27:46 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth — As Esau has done. More artifice still. This was not the thing she was afraid of. But if we use guile once, we shall be very ready to use it again. It...

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