Here we have another proof of Esau's indifference to the family traditions and covenant obligations. Both Abraham and Isaac strongly condemned marriage with the inhabitants of the land who were outside the covenant of promise: see Genesis 24:3; Genesis 28:1.
Verse Genesis 26:34. _HE TOOK TO WIFE - THE DAUGHTER, C._] It is very likely that the wives taken by Esau were daughters of _chiefs_ among the Hittites, and by this union he sought to increase and str...
- The Events of Isaac’s Life 5. משׁמרת _mı̂shmeret_, “charge, ordinance.” מציה _mı̂tsvâh_, “command,” special order. חק _choq_, “decree, statute,” engraven on stone or metal. תירה _tôrâh_, “law,”...
CHAPTER 26 ISAAC IN GERAR _ 1. The famine (Genesis 26:1)_ 2. Jehovah appears unto Isaac (Genesis 26:2) 3. Isaac in Gerar where he denies Rebekah (Genesis 26:6) 4. Isaac's prosperity and the diggin...
GENESIS 26. ISAAC AND THE PHILISTINES. Apart from Genesis 26:34 f. this chapter belongs to J. The original has been expanded in Genesis 26:1, and Genesis 26:15;...
These names exhibit the Figure of speech. _Polynyrmia._ App-6. JUDITH, She had. second name, Aholibamah (Genesis 36:5; Genesis 36:14; Genesis 36:25). BEERI. His name was also Anah, but he had acquire...
AND ESAU, &C.— There are numberless places in which it is easy to point out the impropriety of the divisions in our Chapter s, &c. It is palpable that this chapter should end at Genesis 26:33. In the...
10. _Esau's Hittite Wives_ (Genesis 26:34-35). At the age of forty, Esau took as wives two young women of Hittite stock who no doubt were well contaminated with prevailing Canaanite vices. According t...
_AND ESAU WAS FORTY YEARS OLD WHEN HE TOOK TO WIFE JUDITH THE DAUGHTER OF BEERI THE HITTITE, AND BASHEMATH THE DAUGHTER OF ELON THE HITTITE:_ Esau ... took to wife. If the pious feelings of Abraham r...
26:34 wives (b-11) Lit. 'wife.'...
Esau married foreign women. Genesis does not tell us that marrying foreign women was always wrong. But sometimes it caused trouble and it made people unhappy. And in later times, God told Jacob’s *des...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 26 ISAAC AMONG THE *PHILISTINES V1 Now there was a *famine in the country. It was like the previous *famine when Abraham did not have enough food....
ESAU’S MARRIAGE WITH CANAANITISH WOMEN. (34) ESAU WAS FORTY YEARS OLD. — He was there fore of exactly the same age as Isaac was when, sixty years before, he married Rebekah. But by thus inter marrying...
THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29). THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS. Abraham begat Isaac — The _Tôldôth_ in its original form gave probably a complete genealogy of Isaac, tracing up his des...
וַ יְהִ֤י עֵשָׂו֙ בֶּן ־אַרְבָּעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה...
ISAAC'S WELLS AND COVENANT Genesis 26:18 It is interesting to follow Isaac in his well-digging. Let us also dig wells and set streams flowing, which will bless men long after we have gone home to hea...
We have here the account of the first direct divine communication of Jehovah to Isaac. It came in a time of difficulty such as that which had caused his father to go down into Egypt. Warned against re...
ISAAC STILL LOVED ESAU MORE THAN JACOB Esau married two Hittite women. Both Isaac and Rebekah were troubled by his selection of a mates for life. After all, they did not worship the God of heaven. He...
Hebrews 12:16; Deuteronomy 7:3...
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...
34._And Esau was forty years old_. For many reasons Moses relates the marriages of Esau. Inasmuch as he mingled himself with the inhabitants of the land, from whom the holy race of Abraham was separat...
Here (chap. 26) Isaac replaces Abraham as heir upon the earth. It is a new revelation, when Isaac is himself in a strange land, like the one made to Abraham at the first; only that Isaac was already i...
AND ESAU WAS FORTY YEARS OLD,.... The same age his father was of when he married, Genesis 25:20: WHEN HE TOOK TO WIFE JUDITH, THE DAUGHTER OF BEERI THE HITTITE; Josephus m makes her to be the same wi...
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: Ver. 34. _And Esau was forty years old._] In an apish imita...
_He took to wife_ Contrary to the command of his father, mother, and grandfather, he marries Canaanites, who were strangers to the blessing of Abraham, and subject to the curse of Noah....
1 Isaac because of famine went to Gerar. 2 God instructeth, and blesseth him. 7 Hee is reproued by Abimelech for denying his wife. 12 He groweth rich. 18 He diggeth Esek, Sitnah, and Rehoboth. 23...
The marriage of Esau...
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri, the Hittite, and Bashemath, the daughter of Elon, the Hittite. Esau gave proof of the state of his mind toward his pare...
FIFTH SECTION _Isaac’s sorrow over Esau’s marriage with the daughters of Canaan_ GENESIS 26:34-35 34And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith [celebrated?] the daughter, of Beeri [her...
ISAAC IN GERAR A famine occurs in the land, just as it had in the days of Abraham (ch.12:10). In that case Abraham went down to Egypt, whereas Isaac went only as far as Gerar, in the land of the Phili...
34,35 Esau was foolish in marrying two wives together, and still more in marrying Canaanites, strangers to the blessing of Abraham, and subject to the curse of Noah. It grieved his parents that he mar...
Both _Hittites, _ the worst of the Canaanites, EZEKIEL 16:3; which, from his grandfather Abraham's severe charge, GENESIS 24:3, he must needs know would be highly displeasing both to God and to his pa...
The opening verse of this chapter connects itself with Genesis 12:1-20. "There was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham." The trials which meet God's people, i...
Genesis 26:34 Esau H6215 forty H705 years H8141 old H1121 took H3947 (H8799) wives H802 Judith H3067 daughter...
THE BLESSING OF ESAU AND JACOB (GENESIS 26:34 TO GENESIS 27:45). This passage was recorded in writing because it records the blessings given to Jacob and Esau which were in the nature of a binding cov...
Genesis 26:34 I. Esau was forty years old when he married. A sin is aggravated, sometimes, by the age of the sinner. Some men learn nothing by age: they are forty years old on the books of the regist...
CONTENTS: Covenant confirmed to Isaac. Isaac's lapse at Gerar, Isaac as a well digger. CHARACTERS: Isaac, Rebekah, Abimelech, Ahuzzath, Phichol, Esau, Judith. CONCLUSION: It is peculiarly comforting...
Genesis 26:1. _Abimelech_ was a name common to the kings of Gerar, and the _Philistines_ were of African descent. Genesis 10:14. Genesis 26:2. _The Lord appeared unto him._ The infancy of the patriarc...
_And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah._ ESA...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 26:34 The emphasis on the HITTITE origin of Esau’s wives probably implies that Esau has not chosen them wisely. This is confirmed as they MADE LIFE BITTER FOR ISAAC AND REBEKAH...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 26:1 The events in this chapter are difficult to date precisely but they probably took place after the death of Abraham (Genesis 25:8), when Esau and Jacob were young men.
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 26:34. The daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.] These were the children of Heth, with whom Abraham dealt in the purchase of Machpe...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 26:23 AND HE (viz; Isaac) WENT UP FROM THENCE (Rehoboth, where latterly he had been encamped) TO BEER-SHEBA—a former residence of Abraham (Genesis 21:33), situated "near the water-...
Now there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. [And like father, like son,] Isaac went to Abimelech the king of the Philistines unto Gerar (Genesis 26:1)....
A.M. 2208. B.C. 1796. And Esau. Genesis 36:2 Genesis 36:5 Genesis 36:13 the daughter. Genesis 24:3...
He took to wife — Marrying Canaanites, who were strangers to the blessing of Abraham, and subject to the curse of Noah....
How many wives did Esau have? PROBLEM: Genesis 26:34 states that Esau married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. However, Genesis 36:2-3 states th...