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