Genesis 28:7 (BSB)
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
From Genesis 28. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Genesis 28:7
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Genesis 28:6-9: This passage concerning Esau comes in in the midst of Jacob's story, either, 1. To show the influence of a good example. Esau, though the greater man, now begins to think Jacob the better man, and disdains not to take him for his pattern in this particular instance of marrying with a daughter of Abraham.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Genesis 28:7: And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother,.... As it became him, and as it becomes all children to be obedient to their parents in all things lawful they command them; and it would have been well if Esau had been obedient to them also in a like case, the case of his marriage: and was gone to Padanaram; as they had enjoined him...
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Genesis 28:6-9: Gen 28:6-9 When Esau heard of this blessing and the sending away of Jacob, and saw therein the displeasure of his parents at his Hittite wives, he went to Ishmael - i.e., to the family of Ishmael, for Ishmael himself had been dead fourteen years - and took as a third wife Mahalath, a daughter of Ishmael (called Bashemath in Gen 36:3, a descendant of...