Gênesis 25:19-26 ARC

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:21

Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife - Isaac and Rebekah had now lived nineteen years together without having a child; for he was forty years old when he married Rebekah, Genesis 25:20 , and he was threescore years of age when Jacob and Esau were born, Genesis 25:26 . Hence it is evident they had lived nineteen years together without having a child. The form of the original in this place is worthy of notice: Isaac entreated Jehovah, אשתו לנכח lenochach ishto , directly, purposely,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:22

The children struggled together - יתרצצו yithrotsatsu , they dashed against or bruised each other, there was a violent agitation, so that the mother was apprehensive both of her own and her children's safety; and, supposing this was an uncommon case, she went to inquire of the Lord, as the good women in the present day would go to consult a surgeon or physician; for intercourse with God is not so common now, as it was in those times of great primitive simplicity. There are different... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:23

Two nations are in thy womb - "We have," says Bishop Newton, "in the prophecies delivered respecting the sons of Isaac, ample proof that these prophecies were not meant so much of single persons as of whole nations descended from them; for what was predicted concerning Esau and Jacob was not verified in themselves, but in their posterity. The Edomites were the offspring of Esau, the Israelites were of Jacob; and who but the Author and Giver of life could foresee that two children in the womb... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:24

There were twins - תומם thomim , from which comes Thomas, properly interpreted by the word Διδυμος , Didymus , which signifies a twin; so the first person who was called Thomas or Didymus, we may take for granted, had this name from the circumstance of his being a twin. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:25

Red, all over like a hairy garment - This simply means that he was covered all over with red hair or down; and that this must be intended here is sufficiently evident from another part of his history, where Rebekah, in order to make her favourite son Jacob pass for his brother Esau, was obliged to take the skins of kids, and put them upon his hands and on the smooth part of his neck. They called his name Esau - It is difficult to assign the proper meaning of the original עשו esau or ... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:26

His name was called Jacob - יעקב Yaccob , from עקב akab , to defraud, deceive, to supplant, i.e., to overthrow a person by tripping up his heels. Hence this name was given to Jacob, because it was found he had laid hold on his brother's heel, which was emblematical of his supplanting Esau, and defrauding him of his birthright. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:19

Verse 19 19.These are the generations of Isaac. Because what Moses has said concerning the Ishmaelites was incidental, he now returns to the principal subject of the history, for the purpose of describing the progress of the Church. And in the first place, he repeats that Isaac’s wife was taken from Mesopotamia. He expressly calls her the sister of Laban the Syrian, who was hereafter to become the father-in-law of Jacob, and concerning whom he had many things to relate. But it is chiefly worthy... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:21

Verse 21 21.And Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife. Some translate the passage, Isaac entreated the Lord in the presence of his wife; and understand this to have been done, that she also might add her prayers, and they might jointly supplicate God. But the version here given is more simple. Moreover, this resort to prayer testifies that Isaac knew that he was deprived of children, because God had not blessed him. He also knew that fruitfulness was a special gift of God. For although the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:22

Verse 22 22.And the children struggled together. Here a new temptation suddenly arises, namely, that the infants struggle together in their mother’s womb. This conflict occasions the mother such grief that she wishes for death. And no wonder; for she thinks that it would be a hundred times better for her to die, than that she have within her the horrible prodigy of twin — brothers, shut up in her womb, carrying on intestine war. They, therefore, are mistaken, who attribute this complaint to... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:23

Verse 23 23.Two nations. In the first place, God answers that the contention between the twin-brothers had reference to something far beyond their own persons; for in this way he shows that there would be discord between their posterities. When he says, there are two nations, the expression is emphatical; for since they were brothers and twins, and therefore of one blood, the mother did not suppose that they would be so far disjoined as to become the heads of distinct nations; yet God declares... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:21

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:24

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:25

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:26

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:19

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:21

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:22

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:23

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