Hebrews 11:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

Navigate

Chapter 11

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

²⁰By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

Hebrews 11:20 —

My Notes

Notes are saved on this device.

← Hebrews 11:19 Hebrews 11:21 →

Original word meaning

— of 8

Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.

Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 27:27-40
And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed: …
Genesis 28:2-3
Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. …

Topics

Assurance Atheism Believing Faith Fear God Hope Jesus, the Christ

Commentary

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

(vv. 4-31)

The apostle, having given us a more general account of the grace of faith, now proceeds to set before us some illustrious examples of it in the Old-Testament times, and these may be divided into two classes:—1. Those whose names are mentioned, and the particular exercise and actings of whose faith are specified. 2. Those whose names are barely mentioned, and an account given in general of the expl…

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

(vv. 20)

20. Jacob is put before Esau, as heir of the chief, namely, the spiritual blessing. concerning things to come--Greek, “even concerning things to come”: not only concerning things present. Isaac, by faith, assigned to his sons things future, as if they were present.