Holly Bible - KJV with Concise Commentaries by Z Selam - HTML preview
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Behold, thy brother Esau, as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.
He hopes to recover his birthright by killing his brother. That those who seek not till it is too late will be rejected. This was the ruin of Esau, he did not come in time. As there is an accepted time, a time when God will be found, so there is a time when he will not answer those that call upon him, because they neglected the appointed season. See Pr 1:28. The time of God's patience and our probation will not last always; the day of grace will come to an end, and the door will be shut. Then many that now despise the blessing will seek it carefully; for then they will know how to value it, and will see themselves undone, forever undone, without it, but to no purpose, Lu 13:25-27. O that we would therefore, in this our day, know the things that belong to our peace!
Poor woman! She now early begins to reap the bitter fruits of her fraudulent device; she is obliged to part with her son, for whom she planned it, never, probably, seeing him again; and he felt the retributive justice of heaven fall upon him heavily in his own future family.
43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to
Laban my brother to Haran;
44 and tarry with him a few days, until thy brother’s fury turn away;
For the wicked son will kill the godly: and the plague of God will later come on the wicked son. She gave Jacob warning of his danger, and advised him to withdraw for a while, and shift for his own safety. She tells him what she heard of Esau's design, that he comforted himself with the hope of an opportunity to kill his brother, Ge 27:42. Would one think that such a bloody barbarous thought as this could be a comfort to a man? If Esau could have kept his design to himself his mother would not have suspected it; but men's impudence in sin is often their infatuation; and they cannot accomplish their wickedness because their rage is too violent to be concealed, and a bird of the air carries the voice. Observe here,