Genesis 27:2
What meaning of the genesis 27:2 in the Bible?
What does Genesis 27:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:"
What does Genesis 27:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:"
Verse Genesis 27:2. _I KNOW NOT THE DAY OF MY DEATH_] From his present weakness he had reason to suppose that his death could not be at any great distance, and therefore would leave no act undone whic...
- 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 (Gen...
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...
_I know not the day of my death_ Isaac expects that death is at hand, and fears lest he should die without having pronounced the blessing on his son. The dying utterance was deemed prophetic Genesis 4...
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 s...
_AND HE SAID, BEHOLD NOW, I AM OLD, I KNOW NOT THE DAY OF MY DEATH:_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
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. I...
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 jou...
וַ יֹּ֕אמֶר הִנֵּה ־נָ֖א זָקַ֑נְתִּי לֹ֥א יָדַ֖עְתִּי יֹ֥ום מֹותִֽי׃...
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-...
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...
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...
Despite the marriages, Isaac continued to love Esau more than Jacob. His advancing years convinced Isaac it was time to give the blessing, which normally went with the birthright, to Esau. He intended...
Dying patriarchs always called their households round them. Genesis 49:1; Deuteronomy 33:1....
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...
2._Behold, now I am old, I know not the day of my death_. There is not the least doubt that Isaac implored daily blessings on his sons all his life: this, therefore, appears to have been an extraordin...
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...
AND HE SAID, BEHOLD, NOW I AM OLD,.... Genesis 27:1: I KNOW NOT THE DAY OF MY DEATH; how soon it will be; everyone knows he must die, but the day and hour he knows not, neither young nor old; and th...
And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death: Ver. 2. _I am old, I know not the day of my death._] No more doth any, though never so young. There be as many young skulls as old,...
_I know not the day of my death_ How soon I may die; a declaration which every man may make, and which every man ought well to consider, and lay to heart. It is great mercy and wisdom in God to concea...
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...
Isaac Prepares to Bless Esau...
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...
1-5 The promises of the Messiah, and of the land of Canaan, had come down to Isaac. Isaac being now about 135 years of age, and his sons about 75, and not duly considering the Divine word concerning h...
No text from Poole on this verse....
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 27:2 said H559 (H8799) old H2204 (H8804) know H3045 (H8804) day H3117 death H4194 I know not - Genesis 48:21; 1 Samuel 20:3; Proverbs 27:1; Ecclesiastes 9:10; Isaiah 38:
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 co...
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, he...
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...
_Isaac was old and his eyes were dim_ ISAAC IN THE NEAR PROSPECT OF DEATH I. HE HAS WARNINGS OF HIS APPROACHING END. 1. His advanced age. 2. Signs of weakness and decay. II. HE SETS IN ORDER HIS...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 27:1 Isaac decides it is time to bless his firstborn son, Esau. Such blessings were seen as shaping the future of those blessed. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagNa...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 27:3. Take some venison.] Heb. _Hunt a hunt for me._ “What this hunt should be except of the deer or gazelle, does not appear. And hence it is not surprising that kids of the...
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...
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...
I know not. Genesis 48:21 1 Samuel 20:3 Proverbs 27:1 Ecclesiastes 9:10 Isaiah 38:1 Isaiah 38:3 Mark 13:35 James 4:14...
I am old, and know not the day of my death — How soon I may die....