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Selected Verse: Genesis 27:1 - Strong Concordance
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Ge 27:1 |
Strong Concordance |
And it came to pass [01961], that when Isaac [03327] was old [02204], and his eyes [05869] were dim [03543], so that he could not see [07200], he called [07121] Esau [06215] his eldest [01419] son [01121], and said [0559] unto him, My son [01121]: and he said [0559] unto him, Behold, here am I. |
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King James |
And it came to pass, that 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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
INFIRMITY OF ISAAC. (Gen. 27:1-27)
when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim--He was in his hundred thirty-seventh year; and apprehending death to be near, Isaac prepared to make his last will--an act of the gravest importance, especially as it included the conveyance through a prophetic spirit of the patriarchal blessing. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
When Isaac had grown old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could no longer see (מראת from seeing, with the neg. מן as in Gen 16:2, etc.), he wished, in the consciousness of approaching death, to give his blessing to his elder son. Isaac was then in his 137th year, at which age his half-brother Ishmael had died fourteen years before;
(Note: Cf. Lightfoot, opp. 1, p. 19. This correct estimate of Luther's is based upon the following calculation: - When Joseph was introduced to Pharaoh he was thirty years old (Gen 41:46), and when Jacob went into Egypt, thirty-nine, as the seven years of abundance and two of famine had then passed by (Gen 45:6). But Jacob was at that time 130 years old (Gen 47:9). Consequently Joseph was born before Jacob was ninety-one; and as his birth took place in the fourteenth year of Jacob's sojourn in Mesopotamia (cf. Gen 30:25, and Gen 29:18, Gen 29:21, and Gen 29:27), Jacob's flight to Laban occurred in the seventy-seventh year of his own life, and the 137th of Isaac's.)
and this, with the increasing infirmities of age, may have suggested the thought of death, though he did not die till forty-three years afterwards (Gen 35:28). Without regard to the words which were spoken by God with reference to the children before their birth, and without taking any notice of Esau's frivolous barter of his birthright and his ungodly connection with Canaanites, Isaac maintained his preference for Esau, and directed him therefore to take his things (כּלים, hunting gear), his quiver and bow, to hunt game and prepare a savoury dish, that he might eat, and his soul might bless him. As his preference for Esau was fostered and strengthened by, if it did not spring from, his liking for game (Gen 25:28), so now he wished to raise his spirits for imparting the blessing by a dish of venison prepared to his taste. In this the infirmity of his flesh is evident. At the same time, it was not merely because of his partiality for Esau, but unquestionably on account of the natural rights of the first-born, that he wished to impart the blessing to him, just as the desire to do this before his death arose from the consciousness of his patriarchal call. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Here is Isaac's design to declare Esau his heir. The promise of the Messiah and the land of Canaan was a great trust first committed to Abraham, inclusive and typical of spiritual and eternal blessings; this by divine direction he transmitted to Isaac. Isaac being now old, and either not knowing, or not duly considering the divine oracle concerning his two sons, that the elder should serve the younger, resolves to entail all the honour and power that was wrapt up in the promise upon Esau, his eldest son. He called Esau - Tho' Esau, had greatly grieved his parents by his marriage, yet they had not expelled him, but it seems were pretty well reconciled to him. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Isaac was old - It is conjectured, on good grounds, that Isaac was now about one hundred and seventeen years of age, and Jacob about fifty-seven; though the commonly received opinion makes Isaac one hundred and thirty-seven, and Jacob seventy-seven; but see note on Gen 31:55, etc.
And his eyes were dim - This was probably the effect of that affliction, of what kind we know not, under which Isaac now labored; and from which, as well as from the affliction, he probably recovered, as it is certain he lived forty if not forty-three years after this time, for he lived till the return of Jacob from Padan-aram; Gen 35:27-29. |
28 And Isaac [03327] loved [0157] Esau [06215], because he did eat [06310] of his venison [06718]: but Rebekah [07259] loved [0157] Jacob [03290].
28 And the days [03117] of Isaac [03327] were an hundred [03967] [08141] and fourscore [08084] years [08141].
27 Fulfil [04390] her [02063] week [07620], and we will give [05414] thee this also for the service [05656] which thou shalt serve [05647] with me yet seven [07651] other [0312] years [08141].
21 And Jacob [03290] said [0559] unto Laban [03837], Give [03051] me my wife [0802], for my days [03117] are fulfilled [04390], that I may go in [0935] unto her.
18 And Jacob [03290] loved [0157] Rachel [07354]; and said [0559], I will serve [05647] thee seven [07651] years [08141] for Rachel [07354] thy younger [06996] daughter [01323].
25 And it came to pass, when Rachel [07354] had born [03205] Joseph [03130], that Jacob [03290] said [0559] unto Laban [03837], Send me away [07971], that I may go [03212] unto mine own place [04725], and to my country [0776].
9 And Jacob [03290] said [0559] unto Pharaoh [06547], The days [03117] of the years [08141] of my pilgrimage [04033] are an hundred [03967] and thirty [07970] years [08141]: few [04592] and evil [07451] have the days [03117] of the years [08141] of my life [02416] been, and have not attained [05381] unto the days [03117] of the years [08141] of the life [02416] of my fathers [01] in the days [03117] of their pilgrimage [04033].
6 For these two years [08141] hath the famine [07458] been in [07130] the land [0776]: and yet there are five [02568] years [08141], in the which there shall neither [0369] be earing [02758] nor harvest [07105].
46 And Joseph [03130] was thirty [07970] years [08141] old [01121] when he stood [05975] before [06440] Pharaoh [06547] king [04428] of Egypt [04714]. And Joseph [03130] went out [03318] from the presence [06440] of Pharaoh [06547], and went throughout [05674] all the land [0776] of Egypt [04714].
2 And Sarai [08297] said [0559] unto Abram [087], Behold now, the LORD [03068] hath restrained me [06113] from bearing [03205]: I pray thee, go in [0935] unto my maid [08198]; it may [0194] be that I may obtain children [01129] by her. And Abram [087] hearkened [08085] to the voice [06963] of Sarai [08297].
27 And Jacob [03290] came [0935] unto Isaac [03327] his father [01] unto Mamre [04471], unto the city of Arbah [07153], which is Hebron [02275], where Abraham [085] and Isaac [03327] sojourned [01481].
28 And the days [03117] of Isaac [03327] were an hundred [03967] [08141] and fourscore [08084] years [08141].
29 And Isaac [03327] gave up the ghost [01478], and died [04191], and was gathered [0622] unto his people [05971], being old [02205] and full [07649] of days [03117]: and his sons [01121] Esau [06215] and Jacob [03290] buried [06912] him.
55 And early [07925] in the morning [01242] Laban [03837] rose up [07925], and kissed [05401] his sons [01121] and his daughters [01323], and blessed [01288] them: and Laban [03837] departed [03212], and returned [07725] unto his place [04725].