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Genesis 27:7

before the Lord i.e. in the presence of Jehovah, and in acknowledgment of His power, the human blessing will be pronounced, and will be effectual. The supposition that "before the Lord" means before an image of Jehovah in the house, is an arbitrary one. A local sanctuary, such as we may suppose was sought by Rebekah (Genesis 25:22), is not here implied. Isaac contemplates a religious act of blessing performed under the inspiring consciousness of the Divine Presence.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - 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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • 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 point t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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....

  • 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 the a...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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....

  • 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 his jour...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BEFORE THE LORD (_Jehovah_)_. — _Rebekah has been accused of inserting words which Isaac had not used; but it is unreasonable to suppose that more is recorded of Isaac’s address to his son than the ma...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הָבִ֨יאָה לִּ֥י צַ֛יִד וַ עֲשֵׂה ־לִ֥י מַטְעַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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-...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    REBEKAH PLANS TO CHEAT ISAAC Genesis 27:1 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 prematur...

  • 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 degen...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    REBEKAH HELPED JACOB GET THE BLESSING Rebekah overheard Isaac's instructions to Esau. She called for Jacob and told him to kill two choice kids from the flocks. She planned to prepare them in a way w...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _In the sight of the Lord, answers to my soul, &c., ver. 4. I will bless thee with all earnestness and sincerity. (Haydock)_...

  • 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 t...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BRING ME VENISON, AND MAKE ME SAVOURY MEAT,.... Fetch him venison out of the field, and dress it in a savoury manner, and bring it to him: THAT I MAY EAT, AND BLESS THEE BEFORE THE LORD BEFORE MY DEA...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Bring me venison, and make me savoury meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the LORD before my death. Ver. 7. _That I may eat, and bless thee._] Being cheered up by thy good cheer and wine, I m...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Bring me venison, and make me savory meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord before my death. Rebekah made Jacob her confederate by making known to him all that she had found out....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Rebekah Arranges to have Jacob Blessed First...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    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...

  • Leslie 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 Esa...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-17 Rebekah knew that the blessing was intended for Jacob, and expected he would have it. But she wronged Isaac by putting a cheat on him; she wronged Jacob by tempting him to wickedness. She put a...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BEFORE THE LORD; solemnly, as in God's presence, in his name, and by his authority, and with his leave and favour, which I shall heartily pray for thee. So he signifies that this was more than an ordi...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 27:7 Bring H935 (H8685) game H6718 make H6213 (H8798) food H4303 eat H398 (H8799) bless...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘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 deat...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Genesis 27:1. 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, her...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • 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 liv...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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 HUMAN...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 27:5 REBEKAH WAS LISTENING. Rebekah plans Jacob’s deception, but Jacob is still responsible for the part he plays in this trick....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Genesis 27:6_ 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, and was re...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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 introduced to Ph...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    before the. Deuteronomy 33:1 Joshua 6:26 1 Samuel 24:19...

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