Bible History - Old Testament

- 105- CHAPTER 16: Isaac's Blessing obtained by Jacob deceitfully - Esau's Sorrow - Evil Consequences of their error to all the ...

- 106- between her husband and her son. Probably she had long been apprehensive of some such event, and on the outlook for it. A ...

- 107- and blessed be he that blesseth thee." (Genesis 27:29) But this is manifestly very different from the blessing of Abraham ...

- 108- For, that Isaac was now acting in faith, and that he discerned how, without knowing it, he had blessed, not according to ...

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- 111- CHAPTER 17: Jacob's Vision at Bethel - His Arrival at the House of Laban - Jacob's double Marriage and Servitude - His Fl ...

- 112- reached from the lonely place on which the poor wanderer lay quite up to heaven, right into the very presence of Jehovah; ...

- 113- journey, but apparently God-directed to her whose very appearance could win his affections, he embraced his cousin. Even ...

- 114- comment. That sufficiently appears from the lifelong sorrow, disgrace, and trials which, in the retributive providence of ...

- 115- "Gad," or "good fortune;" the same idea being expressed in the name of the second, Asher, or "happy." Neither did Leah in ...

- 116- that He was the only true and living God - occurs again later when Laban made a covenant with Jacob.(Genesis 31:53) It al ...

- 117- after him, "with his brethren," his anger being further excited by the theft of his household gods, or "teraphim," which ...

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- 119- CHAPTER 18: Jacob at Mahanaim - The Night of Wrestling - Reconciliation between Jacob and Esau - Jacob settles at Shechem ...

- 120- without any reply, other than that Esau was himself coming to meet his brother, and that at the head of a band of four hu ...

- 121- last they were all gone, each herdsman bearing a message of peace. The women also and children were safely camped on the ...

- 122- been disabled, and learned to use other weapons than those of his own wrestling. Then it was that Jacob recognized with w ...

- 123- There was nothing in Jacob's language to his brother which, when translated from Eastern to our Western modes of conduct ...

- 124- "Simeon and Levi are brethren; Their swords are weapons of iniquity. O my soul, come not thou into their council; Unto th ...