Genesis 26:35
and they are a bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 6:2and sons of God see the daughters of men that they [are] fair, and they take to themselves women of all whom they have chosen.
Genesis 28:8and Esau seeth that the daughters of Canaan are evil in the eyes of Isaac his father,
Matthew Henry on Genesis 26:35
Esau's Foolish Marriage. ( b. c. 1760.) 34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: 35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah. Here is, 1. Esau's foolish marriage—foolish, some think, in marrying two wives together, for which perhaps he is called a fornicator ( Heb. xii. 16 ), or rather in marrying Canaanites, who were strangers to the blessing of Abraham, and subject to the curse of Noah, for which he… Read the whole commentary →