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NASB | Genesis 27:35 And he said, "Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 27:35 Isaac said, "Your brother came deceitfully and has [fraudulently] taken away your blessing [for himself]." |
Subject: Why Esau not got his blessing back? |
Bible Note: Esau proved that he had no love of God, disdaining even his birthright.(Gen 25:30 ) However, Jehovah God had already spoken prophetically that "the one national group will be stronger than the other national group, and the older will serve the younger.” (Gen 25:23 ) Later, in harmony with the inclination that Jehovah had already foreseen and that had caused him to love Jacob more than he did Esau, Esau sold his birthright to Jacob for just a bowl of stew.(Ge 25:29-34).Legally, as Jacob well knew, he was entitled to act in the role of Esau, the firstborn of Isaac.Hence, Esau no longer had the firstborn's rights. But Isaac was unaware that Esau had sold his birthright to Jacob when he came in for a blessing, but God was well aware of this and was pleasing to him. Esau later showed further disregard for spiritual things by marrying "Ju´dith the daughter of Be·e´ri the Hit´tite and also Bas´e·math the daughter of E´lon the Hit´tite", Caaanite women that proved to be a "source of bitterness of spirit to Isaac and Re·bek´ah."(Gen 26:34,35 ) Isaac and Rebekah both recognized the badness of the Caananites and commanded Jacob not to seek out a wife from among the, unlike his brother. (Gen 28:1) Exactly why Rebekah and Jacob handled the matter in the way they did, we do not know, except that both of them knew that the blessing belonged to Jacob. Jacob did not maliciously misrepresent himself in order to get something that did not rightfully belong to him. The Bible does not condemn what Rebekah and Jacob did. The outcome was that Jacob received the rightful blessing. Isaac himself evidently saw that Jehovah’s will had been accomplished. Shortly after this, when sending Jacob off to Haran to get a wife, Isaac further blessed Jacob and specifically said: “God Almighty . . . will give to you the blessing of Abraham.” (Ge 28:3, 4) So we properly conclude that the outcome of the matter was what Jehovah purposed. The Bible states clearly the lesson that we should draw from this account, warning that we should be careful “that there may be no fornicator nor anyone not appreciating sacred things, like Esau, who in exchange for one meal gave away his rights as firstborn.”—Heb 12:16. |