...mentioned by BurckhardLf The blessing bestowed upon Esau by his father Isaac was in the following terms : " Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth,...that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck." (Gen. xxvii. 39, 40.) It is here foretold, says Bishop Newton, that as to situation, and other temporal...

...Scripture, obtaining God's own promise to himself:—Isaac his father answered, and said unto him; " Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth,...that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck." I have been more particularly careful to refute this objection, so intimately as the subject is connected...

...by Burckhardt.f The blessing bestowed upon Esau by his father Isaac was in the following terms : " Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth,...from above ; and by thy sword shalt thou live, and shall serve thy brother ; and it sjiall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt...

...of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above ; 40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shall as a spark@ 41 11 And Esau hated Jacob, because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him : and Esau said...

...unto Esau, ' by the sword thou shalt live, and shalt serve thy brother, (to wit, Jacob, the younger,) and it shall come to pass, when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break Jacob's yoke from off thy neck. So Esau hated Jacob ; and Esau said, he would slay Jacob ; but his...

...raincss of thcearth, and of thedewof heaven from above ; 40 And by thy sword slmlt thou live, and shall serve thy brother : and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have lite dominion, that thou shall break his yoke from off thy neck. 41 V And Esau hated Jacob because...

...time was fulfilled the prediction of Isaac to his son Esau. " Thou shalt serve thy brother (Jacob), and it shall come to pass, when thou shalt have the...that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck." (Gen. xxvii. 40.) Antipater was soon after poisoned ; and his two sons were made tetrarchs, by Antony....

...: but the same prediction was delivered to Esau tlms, By thy sword shali thou live, and shalt serre thy brother : and it shall come to pass, when thou...dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off tht/ neck -. This prophecy was fulfilled nine hundred years after it was delivered : Edom revolted...

...come. //.•. xi. 20. Fatten of the earth.'] And Isaac his father answered, and said unto him (Esau), Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above. Ge. zxvii. 39. And take your father (Jacob), and your households (said Pharaoh to Joseph), and come...

...fertility and early cultivation are implied not only in the blessings of Esau, whose dwelling was to be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above ; but also in the condition proposed by Moses to the Edomites, when he solicited a passage for the...