Esau
Esau is the elder son of Isaac in the Hebrew Bible. He is mentioned in the Book of Genesis and by the prophets Obadiah (Obadiah 1:8–21) and Malachi (Malachi 1:2,3).
Quotes
[edit]- (To Jacob) "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am weary.” Therefore his name was called Edom.
- Book of Genesis 25:30 NKJV.
- [To Jacob, who had asked him for the birthright in exchange for the stew] “Look, I am about to die; so what is this birthright to me?
- Genesis 25:32 NKJV.
Quotes about
[edit]- For violence against your brother Jacob,
- Shame shall cover you,
- And you shall be cut off forever.
- In the day that you stood on the other side—
- In the day that strangers carried captive his forces,
- When foreigners entered his gates
- And cast lots for Jerusalem—
- Even you were as one of them.
- Book of Obadiah 8:10-11 NKJV.
- “I have loved you,” says the Lord.
- “Yet you say, ‘In what way have You loved us?’
- Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?”
- Says the Lord.
- “Yet Jacob I have loved;
- But Esau I have hated,
- And laid waste his mountains and his heritage
- For the jackals of the wilderness.”
- Book of Malachi 1:2-3 NKJV.
- Now Isaac pleaded with the Lord for his wife, because she was barren; and the Lord granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived. But the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If all is well, why am I like this?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.
- And the Lord said to her:
- “Two nations are in your womb,
- Two peoples shall be separated from your body;
- One people shall be stronger than the other,
- And the older shall serve the younger.”
- So when her days were fulfilled for her to give birth, indeed there were twins in her womb. And the first came out red. He was like a hairy garment all over; so they called his name Esau. Afterward his brother came out, and his hand took hold of Esau’s heel; so his name was called Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
- Genesis 25:21-26 NKJV.
- Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.
- Paul of Tarsus in the Epistle to the Hebrews 12:14-17 NKJV.
