_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, BEHOLD, HERE AM I._ When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim. He was in his 137th year; and apprehending death to be near,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, BEHOLD NOW, I AM OLD, I KNOW NOT THE DAY OF MY DEATH:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND MAKE ME SAVOURY MEAT, SUCH AS I LOVE, AND BRING IT TO ME, THAT I MAY EAT; THAT MY SOUL MAY BLESS THEE BEFORE I DIE._ Make me savoury meat х_ MAT`AMIYM_ (H4303), or feminine, _ MAT`AMOWT_ (H4303). Proverbs 23:3; Proverbs 23:6, where the word is rendered "dainties"] THAT I MAY EAT; THAT MY SOUL... [ Continue Reading ]
_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.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND REBEKAH SPAKE UNTO JACOB HER SON, SAYING, BEHOLD, I HEARD THY FATHER SPEAK UNTO ESAU THY BROTHER, SAYING,_ Rebekah spake unto Jacob - she prized the blessing as invaluable-she knew that God intended it for the younger son; and in her anxiety to secure its being conferred on the right object-on... [ Continue Reading ]
_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.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JACOB SAID TO REBEKAH HIS MOTHER, BEHOLD, ESAU MY BROTHER IS A HAIRY MAN, AND I AM A SMOOTH MAN:_ Jacob said ... Esau ... a hairy man. It is remarkable that his scruples were founded not on the evil of the act but the risk and consequences of detection.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HIS MOTHER SAID UNTO HIM, UPON ME BE THY CURSE, MY SON: ONLY OBEY MY VOICE, AND GO FETCH ME THEM._ And his mother said ... Upon me be thy curse. His conscience being soothed by his mother, preparations were hastily made for carrying out the device; consisting, first, of a kid's flesh, which, m... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE CAME UNTO HIS FATHER, AND SAID, MY FATHER: AND HE SAID, HERE AM I; WHO ART THOU, MY SON?_ He came unto his father. The scheme planned by the mother was to be executed by the son in the father's bed-chamber: and it is painful to think of the deliberate falsehoods, as well as daring profanity... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEREFORE GOD GIVE THEE OF THE DEW OF HEAVEN, AND THE FATNESS OF THE EARTH, AND PLENTY OF CORN AND WINE:_ God give thee of the dew. To an Oriental mind this phraseology implied the highest flow of prosperity. The copious fall of dew is indispensable to the fruitfulness of lands which would be othe... [ Continue Reading ]
_LET PEOPLE SERVE THEE, AND NATIONS BOW DOWN TO THEE: BE LORD OVER THY BRETHREN, AND LET THY MOTHER'S SONS BOW DOWN TO THEE: CURSED BE EVERY ONE THAT CURSETH THEE, AND BLESSED BE HE THAT BLESSETH THEE._ Let people serve thee - fulfilled in the discomfiture of the hostile tribes that opposed the Isr... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, AS SOON AS ISAAC HAD MADE AN END OF BLESSING JACOB, AND JACOB WAS YET SCARCE GONE OUT FROM THE PRESENCE OF ISAAC HIS FATHER, THAT ESAU HIS BROTHER CAME IN FROM HIS HUNTING._ Esau ... came in from his hunting. Scarcely had the former scene been concluded, when the fraud was dis... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE SAID, IS NOT HE RIGHTLY NAMED JACOB? FOR HE HATH SUPPLANTED ME THESE TWO TIMES: HE TOOK AWAY MY BIRTHRIGHT; AND, BEHOLD, NOW HE HATH TAKEN AWAY MY BLESSING. AND HE SAID, HAST THOU NOT RESERVED A BLESSING FOR ME?_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ESAU HATED JACOB BECAUSE OF THE BLESSING WHEREWITH HIS FATHER BLESSED HIM: AND ESAU SAID IN HIS HEART, THE DAYS OF MOURNING FOR MY FATHER ARE AT HAND; THEN WILL I SLAY MY BROTHER JACOB._ Esau hated Jacob. It is scarcely to be wondered at that Esau resented the conduct of Jacob, and vowed reven... [ Continue Reading ]
_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, PURPOSING TO KILL THEE._ Words of Esau ... were told to Rebekah. Poor woman, she now early begins to reap... [ Continue Reading ]
_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?_ Rebekah said to Isaac. Another pretext her cunning had to devise to obtain her hus... [ Continue Reading ]