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Identifier: pictorialbibleco00cobb (find matches)
Title: The pictorial Bible and commentator: presenting the great truths of God's word in the most simple, pleasing, affectionate, and instructive manner
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Cobbin, Ingram, 1777-1851 March, Daniel, 1816-1909 Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893 Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911
Subjects: Jesus Christ John, the Apostle, Saint Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia (etc.) Bradley, Garretson & co. Columbus, Ohio (etc.) W. Garretson & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ealingswith the Philistine king, Abimelech, to whose country he went in a timeof famine. He had become so wealthy, in flocks and herds and servants,that Abimelechs officers and servants became jealous of him, and manifestedtheir jealousy by stopping up the wells which Abrahams servants had dugin that very dry country, and in quarrelling with Isaacs servants when theydug any new ones; so that Isaac finally removed to what was afterwardssouthern Judea—to Beersheba. But Isaac was guilty of the same fault ashis father Abraham, and with less excuse. Fearing lest Abimelech shouldtake Rebekah from him, and kill him, he called her his sister, though shewas only a second cousin. God punished him for this deception, as we shallsee in the next chapter. Isaac blessing Jacob. Genesis xxvn. T I ^HE following is the history in this chapter: Isaac was now very old ;-*- it is reckoned that he must have been about one hundred andthirty-six years of age, and that Jacob was about seventy-seven. The old
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WHERE ABEAM FED HIS FLOCKS. SO Genesis. 81 mans eyes were grown nearly blind with age. He thought that, fromthe length of years he had lived, his life could not last much longer. Hetherefore desired his son Esau to come and take the blessing which belongedto the first-born. As a proof of his obedience to his father, he asked him to get him someof his nice meat, which he killed with the bow and arrow; and when hehad prepared it, he was to have the blessing. This blessing was a very solemn thing. It was what parents used to giveto their children when they were about to die and leave them behind; andthe patriarchs had a spirit of prophecy given them from heaven, so thatwhat they said foretold what was to come to pass respecting their families.The first-born always had a right to the best blessing. Now, Rebekah heard what Isaac said to Esau, and, as Jacob was herfavorite son, she resolved that he should try and get the blessing. Thereis some excuse for her conduct, because she had been to

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