Genesis 27:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.

Feel

Genesis 27:22

Job 12:16

2 Corinthians 6:8

A deceiver

Genesis 27:36

Genesis 25:27

1 Thessalonians 5:22

And i shall

General references

Romans 9:16

Bible References

Feel

So Jacob approached Isaac, and his father touched him and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

“With Him are might and sound wisdom,
The misled and the misleader are His [and in His power].

amid glory and dishonor; by evil report and good report; branded as deceivers and yet [vindicated as] truthful;

A deceiver

Esau replied, “Is he not rightly named Jacob (the supplanter)? For he has supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright, and now he has taken away my blessing. Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”

When the boys grew up, Esau was an able and skilled hunter, a man of the outdoors, but Jacob was a quiet and peaceful man, living in tents.

Abstain from every form of evil [withdraw and keep away from it].

And i shall

So he said,

“Cursed be Canaan [the son of Ham];

A servant of servants

He shall be to his brothers.”

‘Cursed is he who misleads a blind person on the road.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

“Cursed is the one who does the work of the Lord negligently,
And cursed is the one who restrains his sword from blood [in executing the judgment of the Lord].

“But cursed is the swindler who has a male in his flock and vows [to offer] it, but sacrifices to the Lord a blemished or diseased thing! For I am a great King,” says the Lord of hosts, “and My name is to be [reverently and greatly] feared among the nations.”

General references

So then God’s choice is not dependent on human will, nor on human effort [the totality of human striving], but on God who shows mercy [to whomever He chooses—it is His sovereign gift].