Genesis 27:5 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. ”

Genesis 27:5 - 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 27:5 - 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 27:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

heard. Hebrew was listening. spake. Hebrew was speaking
Genesis 27:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

5. And Rebekah heard. Moses now explains more fully the artifice by which Jacob attained the blessing. It truly appears ridiculous, that an old man, deceived by the cunning of his wife, shoul...
Genesis 27:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it . And Rebekah heard - And was determined, if possible, to frustrate the design...
Genesis 27:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Genesis 27:5-6 , &c. And Rebekah, &c.— Rebekah, acquainted with the Divine will concerning the channel in which the grand promise was to pass, resolved to do her part towards preventin...
Genesis 27:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. No JFB commentary on this verse.
Genesis 27:5 - 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 27:5 - 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 27:5 - 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 27:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Rebekah Plans to Cheat Isaac Genesis 27:1-17 This chapter narrates a sad story of the chosen family. Esau is the only character which elicits universal sympathy. Isaac appears to have sunk into...
Genesis 27:5 - 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 27:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

There is not a passage in scripture which needs more the enlightening influences of the Holy Ghost to guide into all truth, than these verses. Various have been the opinions of Commentators upon the...
Genesis 27:5 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

A GAME OF CROSS-PURPOSES ‘And Rebekah heard … and Rebekah spake.’ Genesis 27:5-6 Isaac and Rebekah are not blameless in the matter of their children’s sins. If their home is religious, it is...
Genesis 27:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son ,.... She might hear Isaac call to him by one means or another, that he had sent for him, or might see him go into his father's tent, and might sta...
Genesis 27:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt [for] venison, [and] to bring [it]. Ver. 5. Esau went to the field to hunt, &c. ] But before he returned,...
Genesis 27:5 - 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 27:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Rebekah's Contrivance. B. C. 1760. 1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and h...
Genesis 27:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Genesis 27:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went into the open country to hunt for venison and to bring it.' There was no reason why Rebekah should not have been in the tent when...
Genesis 27:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 27:3 . Take some venison.] Heb. Hunt a hunt for me. “What this hunt should be except of the deer or gazelle, does not appear. And hence it is not surprising that kids o...
Genesis 27:5 - 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 27:5 - 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 27:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Genesis 27:1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, —according to the generally accepted calculation, in his one hundred and thirty-seventh year. Joseph, having been intr...
Genesis 27:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau, his son. This overhearing of Isaac's plan by Rebekah was due to the dispensation of God. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it....
Genesis 27:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 27:5

Genesis 27:5 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 27:5 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 27:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Genesis 27:5 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 27:5 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 27:5 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Genesis 27:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 27:5 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 27:5 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 27:5 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Genesis 27:5 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 27:5 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 27:5 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 27:5 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 27:5 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 27:5 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 27:5 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 27:5 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 27:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 27:5 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 27:5 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 27:5 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Genesis 27:5 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 27:5 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 27:5 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 27:5 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge