Genesis 27:33 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 27:33

Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”

BSB

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ASV

And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who then is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.

KJV

And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.

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Commentary

4 voices

Hippolytus of Rome

ON THE BLESSINGS OF THE ISAAC AND JACOB 8 (235)

What had actually occurred from the action of Jacob was a mystery of the [divine] economy in view of the Christ prefigured [by Jacob], [of the Christ] who, blessed by the Father, has been blessed forever after his [temporal] birth.The words of Scripture, "Besides himself, Isaac was seized with great amazement," have the same meaning as "Isaac was filled with admiration" for what had happened, because he foresaw that the Gentiles, according to the will of God, had to be blessed and take part in the covenant of the promise made to the fathers through the younger son.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

But he soon recovers himself, and ratifies the blessing he had given to Jacob, I have blessed him, and he shall be blessed - He might have recalled it, but now at last he is sensible he was in an error when he designed it for Esau.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

We, by this instance, are taught, [1.] That it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy, Rom. ix. The apostle seems to allude to this story.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

And Isaac trembled - The marginal reading is very literal and proper, And Isaac trembled with a great trembling greatly. And this shows the deep concern he felt for his own deception, and the iniquity of the means by which it had been brought about.

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֶּחֱרַ֨ד	vai.ye.che.Rad	and he trembled	H2729 →
יִצְחָ֣ק	yitz.Chak	Isaac	H3327 →
חֲרָדָה֮	cha.ra.Dah	trembling	H2731 →
גְּדֹלָ֣ה	ge.do.Lah	great	H1419 →
עַד־	'ad-	up to	H5704 →
מְאֹד֒	me.'Od	muchness	H3966 →
וַיֹּ֡אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
מִֽי־	mi-	who?	H4310 →
אֵפ֡וֹא	'e.Fo'	then	H645 →
ה֣וּא	hu'	[is] he	H1931 →
הַצָּֽד־	ha.tzad-	who hunted	H6679 →
צַיִד֩	tza.Yid	wild game	H6718 →
וַיָּ֨בֵא	vai.Ya.ve'	and he brought [it]	H935 →
לִ֜י	li	to <the> me
וָאֹכַ֥ל	va.'o.Khal	and I ate	H398 →
מִכֹּ֛ל	mi.Kol	some of everything	H3605 →
בְּטֶ֥רֶם	be.Te.rem	<in> before	H2962 →
תָּב֖וֹא	ta.Vo'	you came	H935 →
וָאֲבָרֲכֵ֑הוּ	va.'a.va.ra.Khe.hu	and I blessed him	H1288 →
גַּם־	gam-	also	H1571 →
בָּר֖וּךְ	ba.Rukh	blessed	H1288 →
יִהְיֶֽה׃	yih.Yeh	he will be	H1961 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms.
leads to
- 1 Peter 1:3
  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
- 2 Corinthians 1:3
  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
- Ephesians 2:6
  And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
- Genesis 22:18
  And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
- Revelation 5:9–14
  And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and…
Through
Romans 11:29
For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.
leads to
- Hebrews 7:21
  but Jesus became a priest with an oath by the One who said to Him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind: ‘You are a priest forever.’”
- Numbers 23:19
  God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Malachi 3:6
  “Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.

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Isaac Blesses Jacob — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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PersonPatriarchsIsaacThe son of promise and of laughter — bound on Moriah, the quiet inheritor of the covenant.

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Genesis

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Genesis