GOD’s Appearance To Jacob – A Vow Made By Jacob (G-28-HBS)

   February 9, 2020
JACOB LEAVES HOME

In this chapter we will find Jacob leaving home. He comes to Bethel where God appears to him and confirms to him the covenant made to Abraham.

Genesis 28:1-9 KJV

[1] And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

[2] Arise, go to Padan–aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.

[3] And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

[4] And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.

[5] And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan–aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

[6] When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan–aram, 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;

[7] And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan–aram;

[8] And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

[9] Then 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.

Genesis 28:1 KJV

And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

  • He entered fully into Rebekah‘s feelings, and the burden of his parting counsel to his son was to avoid a marriage alliance with any but the Mesopotamian branch of the family.
  • At the same time he gave him a solemn blessing – pronounced before unwittingly, now designedly, and with a cordial spirit.
  • It is more explicitly and fully given, and Jacob was thus acknowledged “the heir of the promise.”

Genesis 28:2 KJV

Arise, go to Padan–aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.

  • All the way through the Old Testament we find that God does not want the godly to marry the ungodly.
  • That, again, is my reason for believing that in the sixth chapter of Genesis, where it says the sons of God looked upon the daughters of men, it is saying that the godly line married with the godless line of Cain.
  • This finally resulted in the judgment of the Flood with only one godly man left.

Genesis 28:3 KJV

And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

 

 

 

Genesis 28:4 KJV

And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.

  • It is obvious now that Isaac understands that God had given the blessing to Abraham, that God had transferred it to him, and that this blessing is to be passed on to his son, Jacob.

Genesis 28:5 KJV

And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan–aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

  • If you were to give the nationality of this family, you would have to say they were Syrians because that is what they are called in the Scriptures.

Sometimes the questions are asked:

Was Abraham a Jew?

Was he an Israelite?

No, actually he was not. There were no Israelites until the time of Jacob whose name was changed to Israel. His twelve sons were Israelites.

The line came from Abraham, he is the father of the race, but you’re not going to call Abraham a Midianite, I hope, and yet he is the father of the Midianites, also.

Genesis 28:6 KJV

When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan–aram, 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;

 

 

 

Genesis 28:7 KJV

And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan–aram;

 

 

 

Genesis 28:8 KJV

And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

  • Desirous to humor his parents and, if possible, get the last will revoked, he became wise when too late (see Matthew 25:10), and hoped by gratifying his parents in one thing to atone for all his former delinquencies.

Genesis 28:9 KJV

Then 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.

  • But he only made bad worse, and though he did not marry a “wife of the daughters of Canaan,” he married into a family which God had rejected.
  • It showed a partial reformation, but no repentance, for he gave no proofs of abating his vindictive purposes against his brother, nor cherishing that pious spirit that would have gratified his father – he was like Micah (see Judges 17:13).
  • Esau goes out and marries the daughter of Ishmael. He thinks it will please his father.
  • You see what a lack of spiritual perception he has.
  • The Ishmaelites were as much rejected as the Canaanites or the Philistines.

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