Genesis 28:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;

Genesis 28:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Proverbs 1:8
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Colossians 3:20
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Leviticus 19:3
Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
Genesis 27:43
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;

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Commentary

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

(vv. 6-9)

This passage concerning Esau comes in in the midst of Jacob’s story, either, 1. To show the influence of a good example. Esau, though the greater man, now begins to think Jacob the better man, and disdains not to take him for his pattern in this particular instance of marrying with a daughter of Abraham. The elder children should give to the younger an example of tractableness and obedience; it is…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

6-9. when Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, &c.--Desirous to humor his parents and, if possible, get the last will revoked, he became wise when too late (see Mt 25:10), and hoped by gratifying his parents in one thing to atone for all his former delinquencies. But he only made bad worse, and though he did not marry a “wife of the daughters of Canaan,” he married into a family which God had re…