Esau Sentence Examples

The occupants of Edom during practically the whole period of Biblical history were the Bedouin tribes which claimed 1 A curious etymological speculation connects the name with the story of Esau's begging for Jacob's pottage, Gen.

They believed that Cain derived his existence from the superior power, and Abel from the inferior power, and that in this respect he was the first of a line which included Esau, Korah, the Sodomites and Judas Iscariot.

After the death of his mother, when he was forty years old, he married Rebekah the Aramaean, by whom after twenty years of married life he became the father of Esau and Jacob.

See further Ishmael, and note that the pair Isaac and Ishmael correspond to Abraham and Lot, Jacob and Esau.

Jacob and his twin brother Esau are the eponyms of the Israelites and Edomites.

The popular view regarding Israel and Edom is expressed when the story makes Jacob a tent-dweller, and Esau a hunter, a man of the field.

Passing Mahanaim ("camps"), where he saw the camps of God, Jacob sent to Esau with friendly overtures.

He then effected an unexpected reconciliation with Esau, passed to Succoth, where he built "booths" for his cattle (hence its name), and reached Shechem.

The ties which united Lot (the "father" of Ammon and Moab), Ishmael, Midian and Edom (Esau) with the southern tribes Judah and Simeon, as manifested in the genealogical lists, are intelligible enough on geographical grounds alone, and the significance of this for the history of Judah and Palestine cannot be ignored.

The names Esau and Edom are possibly old divine names; see ESAU and Ency.

It was not the Old Testament saints, however, but only sinners and malefactors like Cain, Esau and Saul, who obeyed his summons.

Like Esau, he had sold his birthright; and there was no longer any place for repentance.

Esau and all the heathen shall drink full retribution for their banquet of carnage and plunder on Yahweh's holy mountain.

In the former verses Esau is destroyed by his allies, and they occupy his territory, but in the latter he perishes with the other heathen in the day of universal retribution, he disappears before the victorious advance of Israel, and the southern Judaeans occupy his land.'

He thus gained the blessing intended for the first-born, and Esau, on hearing how he had been forestalled, vowed to kill him.

The interest of the struggles between Jacob and Esau lay, not in the history of individuals of the distant past, but in the fact that the names actually represented Israel and its near rival Edom.

Nevertheless, some allusion to national fortunes is reflected in the exaltation of Jacob (Israel) over Esau (Edom), and in the promise that the latter should break the yoke from his neck.

Genesis tells how Jacob gained ascendancy over his brother, Esau, by means of his cunning.

Esau was the oldest and therefore the traditional heir to the family birthright.

And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn.

Firstly there is the occasion when Esau comes home from hunting starving hungry.

The traditions recording the separation of Lot from Abraham, of Hagar and Ishmael from Isaac, and of Esau from Jacob, although at present arranged in a descending scheme of family relationship, are the result of systematic grouping and cannot express any chronological order of events (see Genesis).