26And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: …
And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?
There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being(as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-27)II. The spirit of prophecy comes upon him, and, like dying Jacob, he tells his sons what shall befal them, Gen. 49:1. 1. He pronounces a curse on Canaan the son of Ham (Gen. 9:25), in whom Ham is himself cursed, either because this son of his was now more guilty than the rest, or because the posterity of this son was afterwards to be rooted out of their land, to make room for Israel. And Moses her…
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