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Genesis 28:7 KJV
Genesis · chapter 28 · verse 7
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;Genesis 28:7 · King James Version
Genesis 28:7 in context
5And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.
6When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take him a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;
7And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padanaram;
8And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
9Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- obeyedshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
- fatherʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- motherʼêma motherH517 →
- JacobYaʻăqôbJaakob, the Israelitish patriarchH3290 →
- goneyâlakto walkH3212 →
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This passage concerning Esau comes in in the midst of Jacob's story, either, 1. To show the influence of a good example. Esau, though the greater man, now begins to think Jacob the better man, and disdains not to take him for his pattern in this particular instance of marrying with a daughter of Abraham.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 6-9