Verse 29
29. People… nations Peoples and tribes of peoples .
Be lord This was fulfilled in the days of David, when the Edomites were subjected to Israel. 2 Samuel 8:14.
Thy mother’s sons This expression seems to carry with it a sense of putting Jacob, his mother’s favourite son, (Genesis 25:28,) in subjection to Esau .
Cursed… blessed See Genesis 12:3. “Isaac does not pronounce on Jacob that emphatic spiritual blessing which God himself had assured to Abraham twice (Genesis 12:3; Genesis 22:18) and to Isaac once, (Genesis 36:4,) ‘In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed . ’ There was something carnal and sinful in the whole conduct of the persons concerned in the history of this chapter, Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob, Esau; and it may have been this which withheld for the time the brightest promise to the family of Abraham; or perhaps it may have been that that promise should come only from the mouth of God himself, as it is given afterwards in Genesis 28:14. ” Speaker’s Commentary .
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