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suited so well to the occurrence of the day, he
called by an old name, Beer-sheba, The well of
the oath.
33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-
Sheba unto this day.
34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the
daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
Here is,
1. Esau's foolish marriage--foolish, some think,
in marrying two wives together, for which
perhaps he is called a fornicator (Heb 12:16),
or rather in marrying Canaanites, who were
strangers to the blessing of Abraham, and
subject to the curse of Noah, for which he is
called profane; for hereby he intimated that he
neither desired the blessing nor dreaded the
curse of God.
2 The grief and trouble it created to his tender
parents.
(1.) It grieved them that he married without
asking, or at least without taking, their advice
and consent: see whose steps those children
tread in who either contemn or contradict their
parents in disposing of themselves.