And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. At the same time there was positive unrighteousness, of which God never makes light in any soul. He hasn't called me for a long time. It was no question of peaceful fellowship, still less of earnest intercession for others. Laban is the brother of Jacob's mother, the brother of Rebekah and he will be coming soon into our scene. But Esau, not really caring about the spiritual things, manifested the very character and nature that God knew he had from the beginning, the reason why God rejected him.Now Isaac's whole request, go out and get me some nice barbecued venison that I might bless you. This was his natural character; for though eminently a man of God, still it is not God who is prominent to his eyes, and leant on, but his own human resources. Now the governmental dealings of God begin to appear, and Jacob is the standing type of the people of God not walking in communion with God like Abraham, and consequently the first type of a pilgrim and of a worshipper too; not as the son, risen from the dead and in the heavenly land, but an outcast; forced to be, if a pilgrim, a pilgrim against his will in the government of God, and consequently the most apt possible type of Israel, for unfaithfulness expelled from their own land, passing under corrective discipline, but blessed at last with rest and joy here below. Yet after citing this verse we are told, "It appears to me certain (!) If we yield ourselves to God, He'll work through us. All that which hindered the enjoyment of grace was not yet removed. The presence of God is more or less an object of dread to the soul, as indeed he expressed it. Pharaoh now had a dream; but there was none to interpret. She dreads a similar matrimonial alliance on the part of Jacob. And Mordecai said to her, "Do you think that at this time you can altogether escape the edict of the king? Genesis 27:21-38 . I cannot think with that foreknowledge. "And his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him." He appears as Almighty God (El-Shaddai) to Abraham: so He is also revealed as the Almighty to Jacob; but I am not aware that He is ever represented as formally proclaiming Himself in this way to Isaac. The closing scene of Jacob approaches, and I scarcely know a more affecting thing in the Bible. bless me, even me also, O my father. His heart is towards them when they are altogether ignorant who he was that enjoyed the glory of Egypt. And that was the little thing that he had set up that he would know the will of God for the one who was to be the bride of Isaac. 3 Now then, get your equipmentyour quiver and bowand go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me. It only in a preparatory way set out the great principle of God's sovereignty. Let those who are affected by such petty cavils weigh our Lord's giving Simon the name of Peter twice (John 1:42, Matthew 16:18), and the second time with yet more emphasis than the first. Now this hatred of Esau's descendants for Israel continued. out to the field, and take me [some] venison; (Genesis 40:1-23) They too have their dreams to tell. If it was a glorious moment in Abraham's history, it was especially gracious in God's ways with Jacob. Scarcely any two of the innumerable millions are exactly alike in either, and yet the difference cannot be defined or described! Wonder not overmuch at the tale of .Jacob; but bless with all your heart the God who shows Himself caring for His servant, and, after he had suffered awhile, giving him although slowly yet surely to prosper. 27 When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called for Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." "Here I am," he answered. Why even a man does so; and God would be inferior to man if He did not. 2 And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death: 3 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy . "O my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh. God knowing in advance their nature, their character; knowing in advance Esau being a profane person and being a materialist and not really concerned with spiritual things, knowing before they were ever born the attitudes of their lives. It's all over for me. He says, That my soul may bless thee before I die. 2. "And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. It is always so first that which is natural, afterwards that which is spiritual. And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die. We don't know that. After this experience, Jacob had fled to Haran, spent twenty years there, came back and Isaac was still alive. Is scepticism only certain that its own dreams are true, and that scripture is false? But whatever we may see in some instances and fear in others, in Jacob's case the light of God's presence was evident. A man struggled with him that night till break of day. But in his chequered course, as we know, their maids were given as concubines, with many a child and many a sorrow. This did not hinder his beginning with the history of Israel from his own days. Laban, seeing the gold, he was-he was attracted to this and was a very gracious host and all. While surely included in fact like his father and son in such a revelation of El-Shaddai, Isaac has an altogether peculiar place in the record, not connected in the same way with the dispensations of God as either Abraham on the one hand, or Jacob on the other. In the same power did Elohim remember Rachael, who not only confesses that the God of creation had taken away her reproach, but calls her son Joseph saying, Jehovah shall add to me another son. sword; and which is not disapproved of by Aben Ezra and Ben And Abimelech seeks his favour too; but Isaac remains always in the emblematic heavenly land, the type of Christ's present position. This is not all. At Levi's birth she does not go farther than the hope of her husband's being joined to her; but Jehovah has praise when she bore Judah. And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, [began to shake] he said, Who? In short God was dealing with and putting down His servant's dependence on his own strength, devices, and resources in any and every way. Some think a sword is meant; and because the original signifies to hang or suspend, hence they think is derived our word hanger, so called because it is generally worn in a pendent posture; but the word hanger did not exist in our language previously to the Crusades, and we have evidently derived it from the Persian [Persian] khanjar, a poniard or dagger, the use of which, not only in battles, but in private assassinations, was well known. Leah he did not want, Rachel he did. 34 and when esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, It is the more absurd in the case of Jacob changed to Israel and then confirmed, because the usual plea of Jehovah and Elohim does not apply here. Your dad won't know the difference. And said, she wrapped some of the goat fur around his arm and around his neck and put some covered him with dirt to give him an earthy smell. Getting ready to run away from home. In hope he goes onward to that which would be lasting and true unto God's glory, when Israel should be in Emmanuel's land, and he himself be in a yet better condition even resurrection. So please do turn to that Psalm in your bibles. And you take it in to him that you might receive the blessing ( Genesis 27:5-10 ). 14:9; Matt. . "They hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him." It is the sudden change from the energy of Satan to the heart looking up and out to Jehovah Himself. - Joseph was in his thirtieth year when he stood before Pharaoh, and therefore thirty-nine when Jacob came down to Egypt at the age of one hundred and thirty. It was the first mark of evil in the creature. n "instrumenta tua", Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator "vasa tua", Vatablus. They were the property of Jacob, by right of divine prophecy (Genesis 25:33f), a right which Esau despised and which he had solemnly renounced, "selling it" for one mess of red beans! Earthly honours did not settle him down in Egypt. And even Laban (verse 39) is obliged to confess that Jacob enjoyed the blessing of One who was in special relationship with him of Jehovah. Listen as we read the book of Genesis, chapters 47 - 50 today! Perhaps there was some attempt to rationalize his disobedience by Isaac, a thing Esau had no doubt aided. In Dan we hear of that which is far more dreadful than burdens inflicted by the Gentiles, and their own subjection, instead of cleaving to their proper and distinctive hopes. "Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. And his brethren could not answer him, for they were troubled at his presence. The issue of all is this, that at last Judah and his brethren return to Joseph's house. Numbers 24:18; 1 Samuel 14:47; 1 Samuel 14:47; 2 Samuel 8:13-14; 2 Samuel 8:13-14; 1 Kings 11:15-16; 1 Kings 11:15-16; 2 Kings 8:20-22; 2 Kings 8:20-22; 2 Kings 14:7,2 Kings 14:22). Jacob will have the household in unison with an altar at Bethel. Luke 1: 30-32. If it's a true work of God, it's going to be done. 198) did not see fit, as far as we can judge, to impart to any man like Jacob the foreknowledge of future and distant events. He wasn't really seeking God; he was only seeking the blessing of his father. It is interesting that at this point, Isaac is becoming feeble; he's pretty much bedfast. 44 stay with him for a while until your brother's fury subsides. Genesis 27:3 KJ21 Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field and take me some venison. On finding that his scheme had not worked, Isaac accepted the fact that Gods will for the blessing of Jacob could not be changed (30-37). They were tears of a lost blessing that he was desiring. And when you read their letters, the whole insinuation of the letter is "here's a glorious work of God that is depending now upon you sending in your contribution. It's a hard thing upon the person that is lying there; it is a hard thing upon the persons that have to take care of them. Jacob receives Isaacs blessing (26:34-28:9). The story proceeds: Joseph is sent to see the peace of his brethren, follows them to Dothan, and there the last errand of love brings out their deepest hatred. and he blessed him, and he said, See, the smell of my son is the smell of the field which the LORD hath blessed ( Genesis 27:27 ): Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine: And let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over your brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee ( Genesis 27:28-29 ). There is nothing to hinder a repetition in giving names either to persons or places. He sets to work in his own way. La Biblia cuenta la historia del amor y el perdn de Dios. being hung at the girdle, though another word is more commonly The answer lies in the shameful account of Judah, his sons, and his daughter-in-law, and himself. See Joshua 13:1. But if you at this time altogether fail, their deliverance shall arise". He was crying about the loss of the blessing. * And spite of Laban abundance was his in herds and flocks. So we shall find it was with Jacob. What did he want it for? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and i have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? 8 Ways Gods Gentleness Has a Huge Impact on Our Lives. Jacob left home, and Rebekah, as far as the record says, never saw him anymore. And it was of the deeper interest too, as one of them (Hezron) stands in the direct line of the Messiah, which was, as it appears to me, one chief reason for introducing the details of Judah's history and its shame in Genesis 38:1-30.. And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes." Now therefore, take, I pray thee, thy weapons Or "thy vessels", or "instruments" F14, his instruments of hunting: as thy quiver and thy bow; the former is the vessel or instrument, in which arrows were put and carried, and has its name in the Hebrew language from its being hung at the girdle, though another word is more commonly used for a quiver; and Onkelos and Jarchi interpret this of a sword; and which is not disapproved of by Aben Ezra and Ben Melech, who explain it either a quiver or a sword; and the latter was as necessary for hunting as the former, see ( Genesis 27:40 ) ; and such a sword may be meant, as Mr. Fuller observes F15, which we call a "hanger" (i.e. And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. Note, It is fit, if the less be blessed of the greater, that the greater should be served and honoured by the less. 18 Jacob went in to his father and said, "Father."And his father said, "Yes, my son. Don't allow bitterness to fill your heart. In other words, maybe your whole life is going to be fulfilled in this one hour that God has brought you to this position just for this purpose. I only refer to it passingly to show how clearly it is brought out in the circumstances. And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons, and the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces, and I saw him not since; and if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to the grave. Genesis 27:1-4 Isaac was old. We can be the instruments through which it happens. . But He claims His choice and makes it, setting it forth in the most distinct manner, which is reasoned on, as we know, in the power of the Spirit of God, in the Epistle to the Romans, and alluded to elsewhere in the Bible. The after history illustrates the two men and their posterity; for whatever may be said of the failure of Jacob, it is perfectly clear that not Jacob but Esau was profane, despising God and consequently his birthright. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. "He was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! I mean Isaac. In verse 2, it is written, He was with Joseph; in verse 21, He was with Joseph, "and showed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. Article Images Copyright 2022 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. And that's what the scripture is saying. In the next chapter (Genesis 33:1-20) the meeting takes place. Here one may convey the scope without ceasing to be brief. Genesis 27:30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. 2 Isaac said, "I am now an old man and don't know the day of my death. ], ". And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. Isaac therefore, awakened to feel whence he was fallen, affirms the certainty of the purpose of God, and pronounces in the most emphatic terms that, spite of the manner in which Jacob had possessed himself of his blessing, he shall be blessed of God. It was therefore impossible to find a closer parity between any than in these two sons of Isaac and Rebecca. And Jacob objected and said, Hey, there's so much difference, though we're twins there's so much difference between us. 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. Genesis 27:3 New International Version 3 Now then, get your equipmentyour quiver and bowand go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me. yes, he shall be blessed. We can discern in the narrative Esau's false interpretation of his shameful "sale" of the birthright, making it a partial and incomplete thing, which it was not. Abraham takes in both; as we know, he is connected with that which is heavenly, but also with what is earthly. And he also had made the savoury meat, and he brought it to his father, and he said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me. Once Esau arrives and Isaac realizes he has given the blessing to the wrong son, his body begins to tremble in panic. latter seems to be what Isaac loved, by the preparation Rebekah 22 Jacob went close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, "The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau." 23 He did not recognize him, for his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he proceeded to . God chose Jacob over Esau, that it might be of election, by God's choice and not by man's deservings.Now the election of God is something that is difficult for us to understand. Leah, following her example, gains through Zilpah Gad and Asher, but makes no acknowledgment of the divine name in either form. ten of the brethren come down to buy corn in Egypt; and there it is that God works marvellously by Joseph. Is it too much to say that the excuse was not thoroughly truthful? God will save His people. How admirable the word of God is in this! In this he designed, not so much the refreshment of his own spirits, that he might give the blessing in a lively manner, as it is commonly taken, but rather the receiving of a fresh instance of his son's filial duty and affection to him, before he bestowed this favour upon him. It mattered little where he was, since Jehovah was with him. To confound two things so distinguished, to mix up the choice at the beginning with the hatred at the end, seems nothing but the narrow folly of man's mind. Didn't want to do it while his dad was alive 'cause his dad might curse him. Who are you?" Help us purchase electrical generators for churches. Thus he goes on his journey; and among the children of the east ensues a characteristic scene, which need not be entered into in a detailed manner the providential introduction to his experiences with Laban and his family. He sought what carefully? And so she's setting up for that Isaac will send Jacob away in peace, saying that these daughters-in-law were just really a real vexation and a problem and all and she wanted her son Jacob to go and get a wife from her own family.Somehow it takes away a little bit from the romance of the story as it goes to realize that at this point, Jacob was about seventy years old. 27:3 Take me some venison that I may; bless thee - Esau must go a hunting and bring some venison. Their mistake was thinking that God couldn't fulfill His purposes without their help. But He too will cause the pinch of famine to press upon them. observes F15, which we call a "hanger" (i.e. I can't think that way and I really can't fault God because He can think that way and makes His selection by His foreknowledge.So God knew in advance concerning Esau, concerning Jacob, and according to this advance knowledge that God had, He selected that the elder should serve the younger and that through the younger one, His promises for the nation and for the world should be fulfilled.Now Jacob came to an awareness of this. With the remarkable prudence which marks his character, he had begged not to be forgotten. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. You're Jewish, too". Isaac lived above forty years after this; let none therefore think that they shall die the sooner for making their wills and getting ready for death. In the last episode, we read Genesis 1:1 through 23 about the account of creation over the first five days. - And he came near, and kissed him. We easily forget what our bears does not judge as it is before God; but as He knows how to rouse the conscience adequately, so it is a sorrowful thing on the other hand when a saint forgets what ought to be the permanent object of his soul, still more solemn when his conscience is not sensitive to that which utterly sullies the glory of God. Yet we know what he had been. I admit fully that the grace of God does minister to our wants; but then it is to raise us above them and the sense of them, in order that we may freely and fully enjoy what God is, and not merely feel what He has done for us. In Genesis 49:1-33 we find the general prophetic blessing of Jacob's sons. Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth handfuls. But his was not the repentance at all nor tears of repentance. At the same time there is another thing to be weighed. And she ran home and said, "Oh, one of Abraham's servants is here and he's looking", you know for they didn't know what his purpose was but he's just here and he's got a lot of camels and she showed the gold earrings and the golden nose ring.And Laban her brother came running out to meet him. Charles Spurgeon said of this Psalm "it is a marvellous psalm just to read; but set to suitable . And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. 38 and esau said unto his father, hast thou but one blessing, my father? And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all of his brothers have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son? He was a believer; but a believer in whom flesh was little judged, and not in him only, but in Rebecca also Between them there is much to pain; and although Isaac might not be without feebleness and fault, there was deceit in both the mother and the son. And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art you? And to just have your spirit linger on in the body, why does the spirit linger on? His conscience is now awake to what previously made no impression on his mind. is hunt me a hunting. ], Now therefore, take, I pray thee, thy weapons,. Or "thy vessels", or "instruments" n, his instruments of hunting: as. That which he valued most came latest. Not interested in the promises of God and the fulfillment of the promises of God. Despite his remark, however, Speiser rendered the passage thus: "There's no telling when I may die." Had not the Septuagint translated the word , and the Vulgate pharetram, a quiver, I should rather have supposed some kind of shield was meant but either can be suspended on the arm or from the shoulder. According to the story, a united human race speaking a single language and migrating eastward, comes to the land of Shinar ( ). Nevertheless there is no doubt of God's grace towards him, little as he might as yet appreciate its fulness. Hence the need of inventing a junior Elohist in order to maintain their illusion. Get Your Bible Minute in Your Inbox Every Morning. The only blessing Isaac could give Esau was the promise that he too would be father of a nation (to be known as Edom; cf. He that was separated from his brethren, but now in glory, must have the son of his father's right hand. We've made the wrong selection. We see the nature which left room for the mingled character which so evidently belonged to Jacob. 1. I don't know. It is postponed, not lost. *It may be worth while to observe in this and other genealogies not often the object of infidel attack, that the differences between Genesis, Numbers' and Chronicles in their form are due to the motive for their introduction in each particular connection ; that the difficulties clearly spring from the design, in no way from error in the writer, but in fact because of ignorance in ouch readers as misapprehend them; and that both the difference and the difficulties are the strongest evidence of their truth and inspired character, for nothing would have been easier than to have assimilated their various forms and to have eliminated that which sounds strange to western ears. And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do. 27 When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called his elder son Esau and said to him, "My son," and he answered, "Here I am." 2 He said, "See, I am old; I do not know the day of my death. (Genesis 30:1-43). And so she called Jacob, and she said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau, is comforting himself in the thought that he's going to kill you ( Genesis 27:42 ). Now it is singular to hear, that Jacob says to his household and all that are with him, "Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments." "Strange gods "? It is the moment of total ruin among the Jews, but exactly the point of change for blessing. What does Genesis 27:3 mean? . So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt. any more than He who wrestled once had to ask him wherefore he asked it. Reciprocal: Genesis 27:19 - I am Verse 22 The voice: How wonderful, says Mr. Scott, is that difference which there is betwixt the faces and the voices of the several individuals of the human species! Pharaoh and his officials were pleased when they heard about Joseph's brothers. "[4] It also included the "double portion" of the father's wealth, and the right of priesthood on behalf of the Chosen People. Nor would this agree with the words which follows, "By thy sword wilt thou live." Moreover, the privative sense of is thoroughly poetical (cf. that the writer here means to say that Hezron and Hamul were born in the land of Canaan." Genesis 27:26 And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. Jacob indeed felt very differently. Whence then are all these bold denunciations of Jacob for "cheating," "stealing," and "defrauding his brother"? Secondly, one who speaks of others so scornfully as this writer ought not to have exposed himself to the charge of such ignorance as confounding "the peoples" or nations with the people or tribes of Israel. 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