Genesis 27:41
Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing that his father had given him. Esau said to himself, “My father will soon die; then I will kill Jacob, my brother.”
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Genesis 32:6The messengers returned to Jacob with the report, “We came to your brother Esau, even as he was coming to meet you with four hundred men.”
Genesis 35:29Isaac beathed his last, and was gathered to his father’s kin, old and satisfied with life; and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.
Genesis 37:8His brothers said to him, “Do you think you will be king over us? And rule us?” So they hated him still more because of his dreams and his words.
Genesis 50:3and forty days were devoted to it, for this is the full period for embalming.
Genesis 50:15When Joseph’s brothers realized that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will now hate us and fully punish us for all the evil which we did to him!”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 27:31-41
The Blessing Pronounced on Jacob and Esau. ( b. c. 1760.) 30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting. 31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me. 32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy… Read the whole commentary →