a few days. Genesis 31:38
- Isaac Blessing His Sons The life of Isaac falls into three periods. During the first seventy-five years he is contemporary with his father. Fo...
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 mus...
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...
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...
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...
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 t...
Tarry with him a few days ] It was twenty years before Jacob returned from Haran; and Rebekah, so far as we know, never saw him again.
EXCURSUS G: UPON THE CHRONOLOGY OF JACOB’S LIFE ( Genesis 27 ) The elaborate calculations of Lightfoot, and most Jewish and Christian commentators...
A few days. — Like Esau ( Genesis 27:41 ), Rebekah expected that Isaac’s end was near. Really Jacob was absent for forty years, and while Isaac liv...
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 i...
JACOB'S FLIGHT AND DREAM Genesis 27:41 - Genesis 28:1-22 "So foolish was I and ignorant: I was as a beast before Thee. Nevertheless I am cont...
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 treate...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
Jacob's Life Threatened by Esau. B. C. 1760....
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 co...
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 ave...
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 w...
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...
EXPOSITION Genesis 27:41 And Esau hated Jacob —a proof that he was not penitent, however disappointed and remorseful (cf. Obadiah 1:10 ,...
Esau's Hatred of Jacob
and tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;
44 And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn away;