Genesis 25:6-34 BSB

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:26

26. His hand took hold on Esau’s heel His birth seems to have followed that of Esau more speedily than is usual in the case of twins, and his hand was so extended as to seem to grasp hold of Esau’s heel . Hence his name Jacob, heel-catcher . Compare Genesis 27:36. Threescore years old Twenty years after the marriage of Isaac and Rebekah . Comp. Genesis 25:20. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:27

SALE OF ESAU’S BIRTHRIGHT, Genesis 25:27-34. 27. The boys grew And their diverse dispositions and tendencies early developed themselves . Esau was a cunning hunter A man knowing the chase, or skilled in hunting . We are to think of him as the hairy man, rough, impulsive, desperate; loving the dangers and excitements of the chase . Jacob was a plain man אישׁ תם , a complete man . The word תם is generally used of moral uprightness and integrity . The kindred word תמים is used in... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:28

28. Because he did eat Literally, for hunting was in his mouth, that is, the results of hunting game . Comp . Genesis 27:4. Rebekah loved Jacob No reason is given for her partial love, but we easily infer it was owing to Jacob’s more domestic habits, and the prophecy which had gone before his birth. Isaac seems, after the birth of his sons, to have been strangely swayed by carnal appetite. Quiet, unenterprising, and timid, he was drawn by the law of attraction of opposites to his... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:29

29. Sod pottage Jacob boiled a dish of lentiles, (Genesis 25:34,) a podded vegetable like the pea or bean, which is cooked by parching over the fire or boiling into a soup, making a favourite and highly nutritious dish all through the East . There is a small red variety of lentile which makes a reddish brown, or chocolate coloured pottage, much prized by the Arabs, which, when being cooked, exhales a savoury odour very grateful to a hungry man . Robinson, Thomson . Jacob’s household tastes... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:31

31. Sell me this day thy birthright “This birthright not only embraced the authority and honour of the patriarchal headship of the chosen family, but made its possessor heir to the Abrahamic covenant, and thus the channel of God’s great revealed mercies to mankind a mediator between God and the race typifying the God-man. Jacob, who was on a much lower spiritual plane than Abraham, by no means comprehended the vastness and dignity of these spiritual blessings, but he appreciated them far... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:34

34. Esau despised his birthright “In these graphic touches the sacred writer paints the ‘profane’ Esau’s unfitness for the spiritual headship of the chosen people, yet with equal faithfulness depicts the craft and selfishness of the ‘supplanter,’ who afterwards became the ‘warrior of God’ (Israel.)” Newhall. In these growing divergences of character, here manifest in the two brothers, Lange observes what he calls “the Hebraic, or profoundest conception of history. All history develops... read more

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:26

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:27

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:28

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:29

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:31

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:34

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