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Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Genesis 27:1-46

SIXTH SECTIONIsaac’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 the flight of Jacob, and his journey with reference to a theocratic marriage. Isaac’s directions for the journcy of Jacob, the counterpart to the dismissal of Ishmael. Esau’s pretended correction of his ill-assoried marriagesGenesis 27:1 to Genesis 28:91And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old,... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Genesis 27:18-29

Jacob Gets Esau’s Blessing Genesis 27:18-29 It is better not to attempt to justify Jacob in this act of treachery; but we may learn the deep and helpful lesson, that if God were able to make a saint out of such material as this, He also can take our poor lives with all their sin and failure and make something of them for His glory. Notice how one lie led to another! Few who enter on a course of deception stop at one falsehood; and how terrible it was to add blasphemy to lying, as when he... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Genesis 27:1-46

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 degenerate in his devotion to the physical. Rebekah knows the purpose of God but is not content to wait. Esau is still the same, a man of physical strength, completely centered therein. Jacob is weak as he yields to the suggestion of his mother. Over the whole is seen the activity of the divine... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 27:9-19

The Courtyard of The Tabernacle (Exodus 27:9-19 ). Before and around the sanctuary was a large courtyard into which the people themselves could come. They could not enter the sanctuary, only the chosen priests would be able to do that, but they (usually the heads of households except where individual offerings were to be offered) could come before it with their offerings and their prayers knowing that He was there to hear. And here they could offer their worship and their thanksgiving to God.... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 27:18-24

‘And he came to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you my son?” Jacob comes, no doubt trembling, to his father, honing the skills of deception that he will use so effectively later on. His father’s reply reflects doubt. This does not sound like Esau. From this point on the writer skilfully builds up the tension for his hearers. Will Isaac see through the deception? Genesis 27:19 ‘And Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you bade... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 27:1-45

Genesis 27:1-Romans : . 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 to the use of two sources. We naturally expect the blessing to follow at the end of Genesis 27:23, but it comes only in Genesis 27:27 b. Twice Jacob is questioned as to his identity, and Isaac is in one place deceived by touch ( Genesis 27:21-Isaiah :) in the other by... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 27:11-24

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 27:15. Goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau.] Heb. The desirable garments. The choicest garments belonging to Esau were put upon Jacob. From Genesis 27:27 it would appear that somewhat of the odour of the field clung to these garments. “They were probably best, or state garments of ‘my lord’ Esau, in which he sought the companies of his brother hunters, and redolent (Genesis 27:29) of the aromatic shrubs of the wilderness which they had hasted through.”... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 27:1-46

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 him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I. And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death: now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, your quiver, your bow, go out to the field, and get me some venison; Make me some savoury barbecued venison, such like I such as I... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 27:1-46

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 lived, though blind, about forty-two years after he had blessed Jacob. Genesis 27:3. Take thy bow. Providence here seems to have given Jacob an opportunity in this mysterious transaction to obtain the blessing. God having promised Isaac the blessing, the reprehensible step was the means employed... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 27:14-24

Genesis 27:14-24And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his motherRebekah’s cunning plot accepted and carried out by JacobI.REVEALS SOME QUALITIES OF JACOB’S CHARACTER. 1. He was a weak and pliable man. 2. He lacked the power of self-determination. 3. He was fearful of consequences. 4. He could long indulge the thought of that which was forbidden. II. REVEALS THE GRADUAL DEBASEMENT OF JACOB’S CHARACTER. 1. He overcomes difficulties in the way of sin. 2. He learns to act a falsehood. 3. He... read more

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