...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...

...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...

...upon his first-born, without violating the direction of the Almighty, " answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth,...thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck." Esau was so exasperated against his brother for this fraud, that he formed the design of assassinating him...

...32: 3. His father Isaac had described to him this land in his prophetic blessing, Gen. 27: 39, 40, " Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth,...thou live, and shalt serve thy brother ; and it shall came to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shall break his yoke from off thy neck."...

...And in agreement with this prediction, was the prophetic blessing pronounced by Isaac over Esau. " Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above. And by thy sivord shall thou live, and shalt serve thy brother ; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have...

...of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above : 40 And by thy sword shalt thou live, and dshalt serve thy brother : and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou '¿halt break his yoke from off thy neck. 41 And Esau 'hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith...

...my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth,...thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck. Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee. Now therefore, my son, obey my voice...