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35Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

Genesis 26:35

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

  • That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

  • And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 34-35)

Here is, 1. Esau’s foolish marriage—foolish, some think, in marrying two wives together, for which perhaps he is called a fornicator (Heb. 12:16), or rather in marrying Canaanites, who were strangers to the blessing of Abraham, and subject to the curse of Noah, for which he is called profane ; for hereby he intimated that he neither desired the blessing nor dreaded the curse of God. 2. The grief a…

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