Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. (5-10) Rebekah advises Jacob to deceive his father Isaac. Sadly, in this house, no one trusted anyone else. The fact Isaac tried to dispense the blessing secretly showed he knew what he wanted to do was wrong. In the willfulness of his old age, he was determined to pass on the blessing to Esau, despite what the LORD had said and what the boys had shown in their lives. It seems Isaac rejected godly thinking and spiritual wisdom, and instead thought only of food and common, man-centered ideas of might. That my soul may bless you before I die: Strangely, Isaac insisted on giving the blessing to Esau, the one whom God did not choose (Genesis 25:23), who despised his birthright, and who married pagan wives. It wasn’t the taste of the food that attracted him, but how he prized the thought of Esau as a mighty hunter.Ĭ.

We later find that he actually could not taste the difference between what Esau hunted in the field and what his wife Rebekah could prepare from the flock. Make me savory food, such as I love: Isaac asked for food, but he seemed to mostly glory in Esau’s power as a manly hunter. Martin Luther calculated Isaac’s age to be 137 at this point he lived to be 180. Isaac was old, but perhaps not near death. His old age was evident in his weakened eyesight ( his eyes were so dim that he could not see). Now it came to pass, when Isaac was old: Isaac believed his time had come to die, and this was his way of settling his affairs, sort of a last will and testament. And make me savory food, such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.”Ī. Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me. 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. Genesis 27 – Jacob Deceptively Gains the Blessing of Isaac A.

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