Love Aheb Isaac Blesses Jacob Genesis 27

Genesis 27:4  27:9 27:14  New King James Version


In the Book of Genesis chapter 25, Abraham’s concubine named Keturah, is introduced along with their six children that she bore him, Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. Abraham sends them to live eastward, “away from Isaac ”,  (Genesis 25:6). Then Abraham dies.  As written in verse 9, “his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth.”. This is a point in the Bible that both of his older Sons, Isaac and Ishmael are together in the same place.

In chapter 23, Abraham’s wife and Isaac’s Mother Sarah dies at the age of 127. Where is Sarah buried? Is where Abraham will be buried. As written in Bible New King James version verses 2- 11:


in Kirjath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham came to 
mourn for Sarah and to weep for her..

Then Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying, “I am a foreigner and a visitor among you. Give me property for a burial place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
So Sarah died in Kirjath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

Then Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying, “I am a foreigner and a visitor among you. Give me property for a burial place among you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

And the sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him, “Hear us, my lord: You are a mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our burial places. None of us will withhold from you his burial place, that you may bury your dead.”

Then Abraham stood up and bowed himself to the people of the land, the sons of Heth. And he spoke with them, saying, “If it is your wish that I bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and meet with Ephron the son of Zohar for me, that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which he has, which is at the end of his field. Let him give it to me at the full price, as property for a burial place among you.”

Now Ephron dwelt among the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the presence of the sons of Heth, all who entered at the gate of his city, saying, “No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field and the cave that is in it; I give it to you in the presence of the sons of my people. I give it to you. Bury your dead!”

In the twenty-sixth chapter, Isaac is told by the Lord to remain in Gerar in the land of the Philistines and of King Abimelech.  He is warned not to go to Egypt, even though of the famine. Isaac assumes that he should go to Egypt like the time of his father Abraham when there was a famine. Regardless, Isaac obeys the Lord’s warning and remains in Gerar as written in the book of Genesis 26:2-5:


“Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you. Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

The book of Genesis chapter 26 verse 34 and 35 tells us that Esau was already married but was a grief for his parents. Jacob was not married yet. And yet because he was the eldest Isaac loved Esau.

When Esau was forty years old, he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite. And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah.

In chapter 27  from the Book of Genesis, Isaac blesses Jacob shortly before his death:

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. I do not know the day of my death. 

Now therefore, please take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me. 

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.”

Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt game and to bring it. 

So Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, “Indeed I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying, 

‘Bring me game and make savory food for me, that I may eat it and bless you in the presence of the Lord before my death.’ 

Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to what I command you. 

Go now to the flock and bring me from there two choice kids of the goats, and I will make savory food from them for your father, such as he loves. Then you shall take it to your father, that he may eat it, and that he may bless you before his death.”

And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Look, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth-skinned man. 

Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be a deceiver to him; and I shall bring a curse on myself and not a blessing.”

But his mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me.” 

And he went and got them and brought them to his mother, and his mother made savory food, such as his father loved. 


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