Gen 27:35-36, Judg 1:7, Pro 11:31, Mat 7:2, 12, Joh 21:17, Rev 3:19 | TSK

Genesis 27:35-36

19-23; 2Ki 10:19; Job 13:7; Mal 2:10; Ro 3:7,8; 2Co 4:7; 1Th 4:6

Jacob. i.e., a supplanter.

he took.

Judges 1:7

their thumbs. Heb. the thumbs of their hands and of theirfeet. This was not an unusual act of cruelty in ancient times towards enemies.--Ælian informs us, that in after ages "the Athenians, at the instigation of Cleon, son of Cleoenetus, made a decree that all the inhabitants of the island of Ægina should have the thumb cut off from the right hand, so that they might ever after be disabled from holding a spear, yet might handle an oar." It was a custom among those Romans who did not like a military life, to cut off their thumbs, that they might be incapable of serving in the army; and for the same reason, parents sometimes cut off the thumbs of their children.

gathered. or, gleaned. as I have.

Ex 21:23-25; Le 24:19-21; 1Sa 15:33; Isa 33:1; Mt 7:1,2

Lu 6:37,38; Ro 2:15; Jas 2:13; Re 13:10; 16:6