Genesis 27:30-38

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 27:30-40

Here is, I. The covenant-blessing denied to Esau. He that made so light of the birthright would now have inherited the blessing, but he was rejected, and found no place of repentance in his father, though he sought it carefully with tears, Heb. 12:17. Observe, 1. How carefully he sought it. He prepared the savoury meat, as his father had directed him, and then begged the blessing which his father had encouraged him to expect, Gen. 27:31. When he understood that Jacob had obtained it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 27:30

And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of , blessing Jacob ,.... So that he had the whole entire blessing, and nothing wanting; and takes in blessings of all sorts, temporal, spiritual, and eternal, of which the land of Canaan, and the fruits of it, were typical: and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father ; which no doubt he made haste to do, as soon as he had got the blessing; partly to avoid his brother, whom he might expect to come in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 27:31

And he also made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father ,.... Which was made of real venison, or of creatures taken in hunting, and not like Jacob's, made of other flesh, in imitation of it; for what the Jewish writers F1 Bereshit Rabba, sect. 67. fol. 59. 3. say is not to be regarded, that he was hindered from getting true venison, by angels loosing the deer he bound; still less what the Targum of Jonathan says, that he killed a dog, made savoury meat of it, and brought it to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 27:32

And Isaac his father said unto him, who art thou ?.... Hearing another voice more like Esau's than what he had heard before surprised him, and therefore in haste puts this question: and he said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau ; all which was true in a sense; he was his son, and he was Esau, and he was his firstborn by nature, but not by right, for he had sold his birthright. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 27:33

And Isaac trembled very exceedingly ,.... Or "trembled with a great trembling exceedingly" F2 ויחרד חרדה גדלה עד־מאד "contremuit tremore magno usque valde", Montanus; Pagninus, Schmidt. ; he was amazed, and astonished, and seized with a trembling all over his body, and with terror and confusion of mind; at the craft of Jacob in getting the blessing; at the disappointment of Esau in losing it; at his own act in blessing Jacob instead of Esau, contrary to his inclination and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 27:34

And when Esau heard the words of his father ,.... That another person had been before him, and got the blessing; and especially when he heard this ratified, and confirmed, and made irrevocable: he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry ; as loud as he possibly could, and in as doleful and hideous a manner as can be imagined; according to the Vulgate Latin version, he roared like a lion: and said unto his father, bless me, even me also, O my father ; thou art my father, and I... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 27:35

And he said, thy brother came with subtilty ,.... The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, and so Jarchi, interpret it, "with wisdom", taking it in a good sense, and as excusing the fact; or rather commending it, as if it was wisely and prudently managed; but the word signifies fraud and deceit, and so it must be understood; though it may be Isaac says this, not so much to blame Jacob for what he had done, as to excuse himself to Esau, that he did not intend to give the blessing from him, but... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 27:36

And he said, is not he rightly named Jacob ?.... As he was by his parents, and those that were at his birth, because he took his brother by the heel as he came out of his mother's womb; for Jacob signifies "heeler", a supplanter, and was given him to keep up the memory of what he had done, to which Esau here refers: for he hath supplanted me these two times ; to supplant another is to put his foot under the heel of another, in order to trip him up, to which Esau alludes; but uses the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 27:37

And Isaac answered and said unto Esau ,.... Giving an account of the blessing be had bestowed upon his brother: behold, I have made him thy lord ; the lord of his posterity, who would be subdued and become tributary to his seed: and all his brethren have I given to him for servants ; the Edomites, who sprung from his brother Esau, who, according to this prophetic blessing, became servants to David, who was a son of Jacob's; see Gill on Genesis 27:29 , and with corn and wine have... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 27:38

And Esau said unto his father, hast thou but one blessing, my father ?.... He seems to speak diminutively of what had been given to Jacob, calling it one blessing: whereas there were many, and of different sorts, both temporal and spiritual; but it may be Esau had not so clear and comprehensive a view of what was contained in Jacob's blessing; or at least was willing to think and hope that there was not so much given, but there might be some behind for him, and that his father had a greater... read more

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