John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 26:35
Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac, and to Rebekah. The marriage of them itself was a trouble to them, it being contrary to their will that any of their children should marry with the Canaanites, and those the worst sort of them, the Hittites; it having been the care of Abraham, the father of Isaac, that his son should not marry with them, and laid a strict injunction on his servant not to take a wife for his son from among them; and which was an example to be followed in later times, and... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 26:34
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 F13 Antiqu. l. 1. c. 18. sect. 4. makes her to be the same with Aholibamah; but her father's name was Zibeon, and an Hivite, and must therefore be another person, not only the name being different, but the tribe, Genesis 36:2 , and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite ; whom Aben Ezra takes to be... read more