Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Genesis 27:45
Why should I be deprived of you both? — Not only of the murdered, but of the murderer, who either by the magistrate, or by the immediate hand of God would be sacrificed to justice.
Why should I be deprived of you both? — Not only of the murdered, but of the murderer, who either by the magistrate, or by the immediate hand of God would be sacrificed to justice.
Verse Genesis 27:45. _WHY SHOULD I BE DEPRIVED ALSO OF YOU BOTH_] If Esau should kill Jacob, then the nearest akin to Jacob, who was by the patriarchial law, Genesis 9:6, the avenger of blood, would...
- 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 the...
CHAPTER 27 THE STORY OF JACOB AND THE DECEPTION OF REBEKAH AND JACOB _ 1. Esau sent (Genesis 27:1)_ 2. Rebekah's deception (Genesis 27:5) 3. Jacob's deception (Genesis 27:18) 4. Jacob blessed ...
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 point t...
WHY. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. BOTH. Jacob by Esau's hand, and Esau by the avenger of blood. Genesis 9:6....
_I will send, and fetch thee_ There is no mention of this part of Rebekah's promise being fulfilled. _be bereaved of you both_ The expression seems to be a reference to the custom of blood-revenge, as...
PART THIRTY-NINE THE STORY OF ISAAC: THE TWINS AND THE BLESSING (Genesis 27:1-45) _The Biblical Account 1 And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not se...
PART FORTY THE STORY OF JACOB; THE JOURNEY TO PADDAN-ARAM (Genesis 27:46 to Genesis 28:22) 1. _The Biblical Account_ 46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of H...
_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, PURPOSI...
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 the a...
DEPRIVED ALSO OF YOU BOTH] of Jacob by death, and of Esau through punishment as a murderer....
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 27 JACOB CHEATS HIS FATHER V1 Isaac was very old. His eyes had become so weak that he could not see. Then he called Esau, who was his older son....
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 his jour...
עַד ־שׁ֨וּב אַף ־אָחִ֜יךָ מִמְּךָ֗ וְ שָׁכַח֙
JACOB'S FLIGHT AND DREAM Genesis 27:41 - Genesis 28:1 "So foolish was I and ignorant: I was as a beast before Thee. Nevertheless I am continually with thee."- Psalms 73:22 IT is so commonly observed...
JACOB'S FRAUD Genesis 27:1 "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 and counter-...
ESAU'S GRIEF AND ANGER Genesis 27:30 Esau apparently had awakened to realize the value of the blessing of the birthright which he had treated so lightly. His exceeding great and bitter cry expressed...
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 degen...
ESAU'S DESPAIR Almost as soon as Jacob had left, Esau returned with the meat he had killed and prepared. Isaac asked who he was. As soon as Esau identified himself, Isaac realized the deception which...
Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget [that] which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be (n) deprived also of you both in one day?...
_Both my sons. Esau would have forfeited his life for murder, chap. ix. 6. (Haydock) --- Perhaps she might also fear that Jacob, in his own defence, should in the very agony of death, give the aggress...
Poor mistaken mother! These few days proved somewhat more than 20 years....
Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
45._Why should I be deprived of you both in one day _? Why does Rebekah fear a double privation? for there was no danger that Jacob, endued with a disposition so mild and placid, should rise up agains...
Jacob's history now begins [1]. Heir of the promises, and valuing them, he uses means to have them, evil and low in character. God answers his faith, and chastens his evil and unbelief. God could have...
UNTIL THY BROTHER'S ANGER TURN AWAY FROM THEE,.... Which is repeated from the preceding verse, to carry on the connection: AND HE FORGET [THAT] WHICH THOU HAST DONE TO HIM; in getting the blessing fr...
Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget [that] which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day? Ve...
_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 by the hand of justice, (Genesis 9:6,) or by some...
1 Isaac sendeth Esau for venison. 5 Rebekah instructeth Iacob to obtaine the blessing. 15 Iacob vnder the person of Esau obteineth it. 30 Esau bringeth venison. 33 Isaac trembleth. 34 Esau compla...
until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him; then I will send, and fetch thee from thence. Rebekah tries to encourage Jacob and to comfort herself by...
ESAU'S HATRED OF JACOB...
SIXTH SECTION _Isaac’s preference for the natural first-born, and Esau. Rebekah and Jacob steal from him the theocratic blessing. Esau’s blessing. Esau’s hostility to Jacob. Rebekah’s preparation for...
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 Esa...
41-46 Esau bore malice to Jacob on account of the blessing he had obtained. Thus he went in the way of Cain, who slew his brother, because he gained that acceptance with God of which he had rendered...
Of thee by Esau's bloody hands; and of Esau, who was likely to suffer death for his murder, either by the authority of the magistrate, as God commanded, GENESIS 9:6, or by the hand of God, who ofttime...
These Chapter s present to us the history of Jacob at least, the principal scenes in that history. The Spirit of God here sets before us the deepest instruction, first, as to God's purpose of infinite...
Genesis 27:45 brothers H251 anger H639 away H7725 (H8800) forgets H7911 (H8804) done H6213 (H8804) send...
‘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 consoles himself about you with the thought of killin...
CONTENTS: Fraudulent methods of Jacob in getting Isaac's blessing. Remorse of Esau. CHARACTERS: Isaac, Esau, Jacob, Rebekah. CONCLUSION: Human nature in prone to scheme to bring about what God would...
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 liv...
_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. Esau’s wicked hypocrites hate always bitterly those who...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 27:41 I WILL KILL MY BROTHER JACOB (v. Genesis 27:41). When Rebekah learns of Esau’s desire to murder Jacob, she encourages Jacob to go t
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 HOMI...
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;...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Genesis chapter twenty-seven? Now it came to pass, when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto...
then I. Proverbs 19:21 Lamentations 3:37 James 4:13 why. Genesis 4:8...