E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 25:26
heel. Hebrew. yakob, whence the name Jacob ( yakob ) heel-catcher: hence, contender. read more
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E.W. Bullinger
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 25:19-24
THE TOLEDOTH OF ISAAC"These are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac: and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian to be his wife. And Isaac entreated Jehovah for his wife, because she was barren: and Jehovah was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived. And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, wherefore do I live? And she went to inquire of... read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 25:25-26
THE NAMES OF THE TWINS"And the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. And after that came forth his brother, and his hand had hold of Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was three score years old when she bare them.""Esau ... Jacob ..." For many centuries, all of the dictionaries gave the meanings of these two names as "hairy" and "supplanter" (or heel-catcher)[17] respectively; but recently, critical denials based upon all kinds of... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 25:19
Genesis 25:19. These are the generations— i.e.. This is the account of Isaac and his family. read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 25:22
Genesis 25:22. The children struggled, &c.— Instances of this kind have been recorded in prophane history. The exact mode or time of this struggling cannot be ascertained. Rebekah was alarmed at it, and said, "Since this is so, or as it is so, [that these children thus struggle in my womb,] why am I thus? for what reason am I in this situation? wherefore is this struggle in my womb?" Conceiving it, no doubt, to intend something prophetic, she went to satisfy this doubt, by inquiring of the... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 25:23
Genesis 25:23. And the Lord said, two nations, &c.— We have in the prophecies delivered respecting these sons of Isaac, more ample proof of what has been before asserted, that these prophecies were meant not so much of single persons, as of whole nations and people descended from them: for what is predicted concerning Esau and Jacob was not verified in themselves, but in their posterity. The Edomites were the offspring of Esau, as the Israelites were of Jacob; and who but the Author and... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 25:25
Genesis 25:25. Red all over like an hairy garment— With his head and body covered all over with a red hair, or down, like an hairy garment; whence he was called Esau, or hairy, by his parents. Jacob taking hold of his brother's heel was thence named a supplanter, one that trips up the heel, or displaces by stratagem, &c. read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Genesis 25:26
Genesis 25:26. Isaac was threescore years old, &c.— It has been asked, why God permitted Sarah and Rebekah to continue so long barren? To which it is answered, not only to prove and exercise the faith of these patriarchs, but to render the propagation of the blessed Seed more remarkable. It prepared the way for the coming of the Son of God in the flesh, and, as St. Chrysostom expresses it, predisposed the world to the belief of the miraculous conception of the Blessed Virgin. read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Genesis 25:19
19. these are the generations—account of the leading events in his life. read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 25:21
the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4 . read more