Quotes About Esau

It is a good gloss Augustine hath upon Esau's tears Heb. 12:16, 17. —Flevet quòd perdidit, non quòd vendidit —he wept that he lost the blessing, not that he sold it.

And he [Esau] sold his birthright unto Jacob.Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils.

The marriage of Esau to the daughter of Ishmael reminds us that the promised offspring of Abraham was determined, not by the will of human beings, but by the will of God. The families of the two "older" sons (Ishmael and Esau) were united in the marriage, but neither received the blessing promised to Abraham.

The seven extra years that Jacob had to serve Laban appear as a repayment for his treatment of Esau. His past had caught up with him, and he had to accept the results and serve Laban seven more years.

Here the writer shows the progress and well-being of the line of Esau. He carefully notes that Esau is, in fact, "Edom." The repeated identification of Esau as Edom throughout the chapter prepares us for the future importance of Edom during Israel's later history.

And Isaac loved Esau - Isaac though he was not a stirring man himself, yet he loved to have his son active. Esau knew how to please him, and shewed a great respect for him, by treating him often with venison, which won upon him more than one would have thought. But Rebekah loved him whom God loved.

When Jacob was chosen, Esau was not rejected. God does not reject. "Though my mother and father might abandon me, the Lord will take me in" (Psalms 27:10). Chosenness means two things: intimacy and responsibility. God holds us close and makes special demands on us. Beyond that, God is the God of all mankind – the Author of all, who cares for all.

Isaac answered Esau: "Look, I have made him a master over you… . What then can I do for you, my son?" Genesis 27:37

The preference for Abel over Cain, like that of Jacob over Esau, is grounded in the mystery of election, a domain of divine activity that is closed off to full human comprehension.

Don't talk of rights in the land of wrongs, man. But the Inchiquin knows well that the true Irish Esau has no worse enemy than his supplanter, the Norman Jacob.

Ishmael and Esau were originally in the covenant, the wicked sons of Eli were covenant children, and the great majority of the Jews in the days of Jesus and the apostles belonged to the covenant people and shared in the covenant promises, though they did not follow the faith of their father Abraham.

For many there are, who, in the day of grace and mercy, despise those things which are indeed the birthright to heaven, who yet when the deciding day appears, will cry as lord as Esau, Lord, Lord, open to us; but then, as Isaac would not repent, no more will God the Father, but will say, I have blessed these, yea, and they shall be blessed; but as for you, Depart, you are the workers of iniquity.  Gen. xxvii. 32; Luke xiii. 25-27.

So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.

Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.

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!”

When Esau heard his fatherís words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”

Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).

Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite,

And Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath gave birth to Reuel,

and Oholibamah gave birth to Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.

This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the area of Mount Seir.

These are the names of Esauís sons: Eliphaz son of Esauís wife Adah, and Reuel son of Esauís wife Basemath.