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Selected Verse: Genesis 27:30 - Strong Concordance
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Ge 27:30 |
Strong Concordance |
And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac [03327] had made an end [03615] of blessing [01288] Jacob [03290], and Jacob [03290] was yet [0389] scarce [03318] gone out [03318] from the presence [06440] of Isaac [03327] his father [01], that Esau [06215] his brother [0251] came in [0935] from his hunting [06718]. |
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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. |
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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Esau came in from his hunting--Scarcely had the former scene been concluded, when the fraud was discovered. The emotions of Isaac, as well as Esau, may easily be imagined--the astonishment, alarm, and sorrow of the one; the disappointment and indignation of the other. But a moment's reflection convinced the aged patriarch that the transfer of the blessing was "of the Lord," and now irrevocable. The importunities of Esau, however, overpowered him; and as the prophetic afflatus was upon the patriarch, he added what was probably as pleasing to a man of Esau's character as the other would have been. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
Jacob had hardly left his father, after receiving the blessing (יצא אך, was only gone out), when Esau returned and came to Isaac, with the game prepared, to receive the blessing. The shock was inconceivable which Isaac received, when he found that he had blessed another, and not Esau-that, in fact, he had blessed Jacob. At the same time he neither could nor would, either curse him on account of the deception which he had practised, or withdraw the blessing imparted. For he could not help confessing to himself that he had sinned and brought the deception upon himself by his carnal preference for Esau. Moreover, the blessing was not a matter of subjective human affection, but a right entrusted by the grace of God to paternal supremacy and authority, in the exercise of which the person blessing, being impelled and guided by a higher authority, imparted to the person to be blest spiritual possessions and powers, which the will of man could not capriciously withdraw. Regarding this as the meaning of the blessing, Isaac necessarily saw in what had taken place the will of God, which had directed to Jacob the blessing that he had intended for Esau. He therefore said, "I have blessed him; yea, he will be (remain) blessed" (cf. Heb 12:17). Even the great and bitter lamentation into which Esau broke out could not change his father's mind. To his entreaty in Gen 27:34, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!" he replied, "Thy brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing." Esau answered, "Is it that (הכי) they have named him Jacob (overreacher), and he has overreached me twice?" i.e., has he received the name Jacob from the fact that he has twice outwitted me? הכי is used "when the cause is not rightly known" (cf. Gen 29:15). To his further entreaty, "Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?" (אצל, lit., to lay aside), Isaac repeated the substance of the blessing given to Jacob, and added, "and to thee (לכה for לך as in Gen 3:9), now, what can I do, my son?" When Esau again repeated, with tears, the entreaty that Isaac would bless him also, the father gave him a blessing (Gen 27:39, Gen 27:40), but one which, when compared with the blessing of Jacob, was to be regarded rather as "a modified curse," and which is not even described as a blessing, but "introduced a disturbing element into Jacob's blessing, a retribution for the impure means by which he had obtained it." "Behold," it states, "from the fat fields of the earth will thy dwelling be, and from the dew of heaven from above." By a play upon the words Isaac uses the same expression as in Gen 27:28, "from the fat fields of the earth, and from the dew," but in the opposite sense, מן being partitive there, and privative here, "from = away from." The context requires that the words should be taken thus, and not in the sense of "thy dwelling shall partake of the fat of the earth and the dew of heaven" (Vulg., Luth., etc.).
(Note: I cannot discover, however, in Mal 1:3 an authentic proof of the privative meaning, as Kurtz and Delitzsch do, since the prophet's words, "I have hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste," are not descriptive of the natural condition of Idumaea, but of the desolation to which the land was given up.)
Since Isaac said (Gen 27:37) he had given Jacob the blessing of the super-abundance of corn and wine, he could not possibly promise Esau also fat fields and the dew of heaven. Nor would this agree with the words which follows, "By thy sword wilt thou live." Moreover, the privative sense of מן is thoroughly poetical (cf. Sa2 1:22; Job 11:15, etc.). The idea expressed in the words, therefore, was that the dwelling-place of Esau would be the very opposite of the land of Canaan, viz., an unfruitful land. This is generally the condition of the mountainous country of Edom, which, although not without its fertile slopes and valleys, especially in the eastern portion (cf. Robinson, Pal. ii. p. 552), is thoroughly waste and barren in the western; so that Seetzen says it consists of "the most desolate and barren mountains probably in the world."
The mode of life and occupation of the inhabitants were adapted to the country. "By (lit., on) thy sword thou wilt live;" i.e., thy maintenance will depend on the sword (על as in Deu 8:3 cf. Isa 28:16), "live by war, rapine, and freebooting" (Knobel). "And thy brother thou wilt serve; yet it will come to pass, as (כּאשׁר, lit., in proportion as, cf. Num 27:14) thou shakest (tossest), thou wilt break his yoke from thy neck." רוּד, "to rove about" (Jer 2:31; Hos 12:1), Hiphil "to cause (the thoughts) to rove about" (Psa 55:3); but Hengstenberg's rendering is the best here, viz., "to shake, sc., the yoke." In the wild, sport-loving Esau there was aptly prefigured the character of his posterity. Josephus describes the Idumaean people as "a tumultuous and disorderly nation, always on the watch on every motion, delighting in mutations" (Whiston's tr.: de bell Judg 4; 1:1-21:25; 1). The mental eye of the patriarch discerned in the son his whole future family in its attitude to its brother-nation, and he promised Edom, not freedom from the dominion of Israel (for Esau was to serve his brother, as Jehovah had predicted before their birth), but only a repeated and not unsuccessful struggle for freedom. And so it was; the historical relation of Edom to Israel assumed the form of a constant reiteration of servitude, revolt, and reconquest. After a long period of independence at the first, the Edomites were defeated by Saul (Sa1 14:47) and subjugated by David (Sa2 8:14); and, in spite of an attempt at revolt under Solomon (Kg1 11:14.), they remained subject to the kingdom of Judah until the time of Joram, when they rebelled. They were subdued again by Amaziah (Kg2 14:7; Ch2 25:11.), and remained in subjection under Uzziah and Jotham (Kg2 14:22; Ch2 26:2). It was not till the reign of Ahaz that they shook the yoke of Judah entirely off (Kg2 16:6; Ch2 28:17), without Judah being ever able to reduce them again. At length, however, they were completely conquered by John Hyrcanus about b.c. 129, compelled to submit to circumcision, and incorporated in the Jewish state (Josephus, Ant. xiii. 9, 1, xv. 7, 9). At a still later period, through Antipater and Herod, they established an Idumaean dynasty over Judea, which lasted till the complete dissolution of the Jewish state.
Thus the words of Isaac to his two sons were fulfilled-words which are justly said to have been spoken "in faith concerning things to come" (Heb 11:20). For the blessing was a prophecy, and that not merely in the case of Esau, but in that of Jacob also; although Isaac was deceived with regard to the person of the latter. Jacob remained blessed, therefore, because, according to the predetermination of God, the elder was to serve the younger; but the deceit by which his mother prompted him to secure the blessing was never approved. On the contrary, the sin was followed by immediate punishment. Rebekah was obliged to send her pet son into a foreign land, away from his father's house, and in an utterly destitute condition. She did not see him for twenty years, even if she lived till his return, and possibly never saw again. Jacob had to atone for his sin against both brother and father by a long and painful exile, in the midst of privation, anxiety, fraud, and want. Isaac was punished for retaining his preference for Esau, in opposition to the revealed will of Jehovah, by the success of Jacob's stratagem; and Esau for his contempt of the birthright, by the loss of the blessing of the first-born. In this way a higher hand prevailed above the acts of sinful men, bringing the counsel and will of Jehovah to eventual triumph, in opposition to human thought and will. |
20 By faith [4102] Isaac [2464] blessed [2127] Jacob [2384] and [2532] Esau [2269] concerning [4012] things to come [3195].
17 For again the Edomites [0130] had come [0935] and smitten [05221] Judah [03063], and carried away [07617] captives [07628].
6 At that time [06256] Rezin [07526] king [04428] of Syria [0758] recovered [07725] Elath [0359] to Syria [0758] [0130], and drave [05394] the Jews [03064] from Elath [0359]: and the Syrians [0726] came [0935] to Elath [0359], and dwelt [03427] there unto this day [03117].
2 He built [01129] Eloth [0359], and restored [07725] it to Judah [03063], after [0310] that the king [04428] slept [07901] with his fathers [01].
22 He built [01129] Elath [0359], and restored [07725] it to Judah [03063], after [0310] that the king [04428] slept [07901] with his fathers [01].
11 And Amaziah [0558] strengthened [02388] himself, and led forth [05090] his people [05971], and went [03212] to the valley [01516] of salt [04417], and smote [05221] of the children [01121] of Seir [08165] ten [06235] thousand [0505].
7 He slew [05221] of Edom [0123] in the valley [01516] of salt [04417] ten [06235] thousand [0505], and took [08610] Selah [05554] by war [04421], and called [07121] the name [08034] of it Joktheel [03371] unto this day [03117].
14 And the LORD [03068] stirred up [06965] an adversary [07854] unto Solomon [08010], Hadad [01908] the Edomite [0130]: he was of the king's [04428] seed [02233] in Edom [0123].
14 And he put [07760] garrisons [05333] in Edom [0123]; throughout all Edom [0123] put [07760] he garrisons [05333], and all they of Edom [0123] became David's [01732] servants [05650]. And the LORD [03068] preserved [03467] David [01732] whithersoever he went [01980].
47 So Saul [07586] took [03920] the kingdom [04410] over Israel [03478], and fought [03898] against all his enemies [0341] on every side [05439], against Moab [04124], and against the children [01121] of Ammon [05983], and against Edom [0123], and against the kings [04428] of Zobah [06678], and against the Philistines [06430]: and whithersoever he turned [06437] himself, he vexed [07561] them.
3 Because of the voice [06963] of the enemy [0341], because [06440] of the oppression [06125] of the wicked [07563]: for they cast [04131] iniquity [0205] upon me, and in wrath [0639] they hate [07852] me.
1 Ephraim [0669] feedeth [07462] on wind [07307], and followeth [07291] after the east wind [06921]: he daily [03117] increaseth [07235] lies [03577] and desolation [07701]; and they do make [03772] a covenant [01285] with the Assyrians [0804], and oil [08081] is carried [02986] into Egypt [04714].
31 O generation [01755], see [07200] ye the word [01697] of the LORD [03068]. Have I been a wilderness [04057] unto Israel [03478]? a land [0776] of darkness [03991]? wherefore say [0559] my people [05971], We are lords [07300]; we will come [0935] no more unto thee?
14 For ye rebelled [04784] against my commandment [06310] in the desert [04057] of Zin [06790], in the strife [04808] of the congregation [05712], to sanctify [06942] me at the water [04325] before their eyes [05869]: that is the water [04325] of Meribah [04809] in Kadesh [06946] in the wilderness [04057] of Zin [06790].
16 Therefore thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069], Behold, I lay [03245] in Zion [06726] for a foundation a stone [068], a tried [0976] stone [068], a precious [03368] corner [06438] stone, a sure [03245] foundation [04143]: he that believeth [0539] shall not make haste [02363].
3 And he humbled [06031] thee, and suffered thee to hunger [07456], and fed [0398] thee with manna [04478], which thou knewest [03045] not, neither did thy fathers [01] know [03045]; that he might make thee know [03045] that man [0120] doth not live [02421] by bread [03899] only [0905], but by every word that proceedeth [04161] out of the mouth [06310] of the LORD [03068] doth man [0120] live [02421].
15 For then shalt thou lift up [05375] thy face [06440] without spot [03971]; yea, thou shalt be stedfast [03332], and shalt not fear [03372]:
22 From the blood [01818] of the slain [02491], from the fat [02459] of the mighty [01368], the bow [07198] of Jonathan [03083] turned [07734] not back [0268], and the sword [02719] of Saul [07586] returned [07725] not empty [07387].
37 And Isaac [03327] answered [06030] and said [0559] unto Esau [06215], Behold, I have made [07760] him thy lord [01376], and all his brethren [0251] have I given [05414] to him for servants [05650]; and with corn [01715] and wine [08492] have I sustained [05564] him: and what shall I do [06213] now [0645] unto thee, my son [01121]?
3 And I hated [08130] Esau [06215], and laid [07760] his mountains [02022] and his heritage [05159] waste [08077] for the dragons [08568] of the wilderness [04057].
28 Therefore God [0430] give [05414] thee of the dew [02919] of heaven [08064], and the fatness [04924] of the earth [0776], and plenty [07230] of corn [01715] and wine [08492]:
40 And by thy sword [02719] shalt thou live [02421], and shalt serve [05647] thy brother [0251]; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion [07300], that thou shalt break [06561] his yoke [05923] from off thy neck [06677].
39 And Isaac [03327] his father [01] answered [06030] and said [0559] unto him, Behold, thy dwelling [04186] shall be the fatness [04924] of the earth [0776], and of the dew [02919] of heaven [08064] from above [05920];
9 And the LORD [03068] God [0430] called [07121] unto Adam [0120], and said [0559] unto him, Where art thou [0335]?
15 And Laban [03837] said [0559] unto Jacob [03290], Because thou art my brother [0251], shouldest thou therefore serve [05647] me for nought [02600]? tell [05046] me, what shall thy wages [04909] be?
34 And when Esau [06215] heard [08085] the words [01697] of his father [01], he cried [06817] with a great [01419] and exceeding [03966] bitter [04751] cry [06818], and said [0559] unto his father [01], Bless [01288] me, even me also, O my father [01].
17 For [1063] ye know [2467] how [3754] that afterward [2532] [3347], when he would [2309] have inherited [2816] the blessing [2129], he was rejected [593]: for [1063] he found [2147] no [3756] place [5117] of repentance [3341], though [2539] he sought [1567] it [846] carefully [1567] with [3326] tears [1144].