Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.

Bible References

Hated

Genesis 4:2
Again, she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Genesis 37:4
His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers; and so they hated him and could not speak to him on friendly terms.
Ezekiel 25:12
‘Thus says the Lord God, “Because Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has incurred grievous guilt, and avenged themselves upon them,”
Ezekiel 35:5
Because you have had everlasting enmity and have delivered the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of the punishment of the end,
Amos 1:11
Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of Edom and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because he pursued his brother with the sword,
While he stifled his compassion;
His anger also tore continually,
And he maintained his fury forever.
Obadiah 1:10
“Because of violence to your brother Jacob,
You will be covered with shame,
And you will be cut off forever.
1 John 3:12
not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.

The days

Genesis 35:29
Isaac breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, an old man of ripe age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Genesis 50:3
Now forty days were required for it, for such is the period required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
Deuteronomy 34:8
So the sons of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.
2 Chronicles 35:24
So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in the second chariot which he had, and brought him to Jerusalem where he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
Psalm 35:14
I went about as though it were my friend or brother;
I bowed down mourning, as one who sorrows for a mother.

Then

Genesis 32:6
The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and furthermore he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
2 Samuel 13:28
Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “See now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then put him to death. Do not fear; have not I myself commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.”
Psalm 37:12
The wicked plots against the righteous
And gnashes at him with his teeth.
Psalm 140:4
Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked;
Preserve me from violent men
Who have purposed to trip up my feet.
Psalm 142:3
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,
You knew my path.
In the way where I walk
They have hidden a trap for me.
Proverbs 1:12
Let us swallow them alive like Sheol,
Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;
Proverbs 6:14
Who with perversity in his heart continually devises evil,
Who spreads strife.
Ecclesiastes 7:9
Do not be eager in your heart to be angry,
For anger resides in the bosom of fools.
Obadiah 1:10
“Because of violence to your brother Jacob,
You will be covered with shame,
And you will be cut off forever.
Ephesians 4:26
Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,
Titus 1:15
To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.
Titus 3:3
For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
1 John 3:12
not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s were righteous.