“ Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee. ”
- 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...
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.
Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death. No JFB commentary on these verses.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice ,.... Hearken to what I am about to say, and do according to that which I command thee, in every particular ; she required of him filial obedience to all that...
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee. Ver. 8. How therefore, my son, obey my voice. ] Which yet he ought not to have done, because she commanded him that whi...
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...
6 And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son, saying, Behold, I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother, saying, 7 Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee...
No text from Poole on this verse.
‘And Rebekah said to Jacob her son, “Look, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, ‘Bring me venison and make me savoury meat that I may eat, and bless you before Yahweh before my dea...
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 27:6-10 REBEKAH’S CUNNING PLOT IN FAVOUR OF JACOB I. The human element in it. 1. The partiality of a fond mother. She tenderly loved this son, a...
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...
Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth Rebekah’s cunning plot in favour of Jacob I. THE HU...
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...
Rebekah Arranges to have Jacob Blessed First
Genesis 27:13 Genesis 25:23 Acts 4:19 Acts 5:29 Ephesians 6:1