AUGUST 16, 2020 Genesis 27:38 And Esau said to his father, “Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me—me also, O my father!” And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. Remember how Esau responded to the invitation to sell Jacob the birthright? Esau said, “Look, I am about to die; so what is this birthright to me?” (Gen. 25:32). […]
AUGUST 15, 2020 Genesis 27:36 And Esau said, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright, and now look, he has taken away my blessing!” Do you notice what is wrong in the statement? Do you notice what Esua did in this statement to his father? While it […]
AUGUST 14, 2020 Genesis 27:29 “Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be master over your brethren, and let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be those who bless you!” Whether Isaac thought he was blessing Esau or not is a mystery but, nevertheless, it would seem that […]
AUGUST 13, 2020 Genesis 27:22-23 So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.” And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau’s hands; so he blessed him. Isaac was obviously suspicious. In the text, he indicated […]
AUGUST 12, 2020 Genesis 27:5-6 Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt game and to bring it. So, Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son. We all know what she said to Jacob; she told him to bring the two best kids from the goats so […]
AUGUST 11, 2020 Genesis 27:1-4 Now it came to pass, when Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim that he could not see, that he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” And he answered him, “Here I am.” Then he said, “Behold now, I am old. I do not know the […]
AUGUST 10, 2020 Genesis 26:34-35 When Esau was forty years old, he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah. When it came time for Isaac to marry, Abraham had sent his servant to find a […]
AUGUST 9, 2020 Genesis 26:22 And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So, he called its name Rehoboth, because he said, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.” In reading this account it becomes obvious that Isaac was not […]
AUGUST 8, 2020 Genesis 26:15-16 Now the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and they had filled them with earth. And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.” It’s amazing to see how those things that […]
AUGUST 7, 2020 Genesis 26:12-14 Then Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the Lord blessed him. The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous; for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. So the Philistines envied him. Although it […]
AUGUST 6, 2020 Genesis 26:1-3 There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in Gerar. Then the Lord appeared to him and said: “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you. Dwell in this land, […]
AUGUST 5, 2020 Genesis 25:33-34 Then Jacob said, “Swear to me as of this day.” So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob. And Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils; then he ate and drank, arose, and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright. One has to wonder if Esau would have despised his birthright if […]
