Jacob and Esau?

[InFlames]

And Esau said to his father, "Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me--me also, O my father!" And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. 39 Then Isaac his father answered and said to him: "Behold, your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, And of the dew of heaven from above.

When God says "fatness of the earth", does that refer to the oil in the middle east?

 

[Daughter of His]

I looked up that "fatness" in the Hebrew and it was defined as "a rich dish, or a fertile field, a robust man." Very interesting.

 

[Rafael]

Goes along with the verses:

Matthew 5:43 ¶ "You have heard that the law of Moses says, ‘Love your neighbor’ and hate your enemy.
44 But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you!
45 In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and on the unjust, too.

 

[Serapha]

And Esau said to his father, "Have you only one blessing, my father? Bless me--me also, O my father!" And Esau lifted up his voice and wept. 39 Then Isaac his father answered and said to him: "Behold, your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, And of the dew of heaven from above.

When God says "fatness of the earth", does that refer to the oil in the middle east?

Hi there!




It is an inversion of the blessing given to Jacob...


27:28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
It is not the early or latter rains that provide the true "fatness of the earth" in Israel, but it is the heavy dews that give a continual water source.


If you can link the "dew" to oil, you might have an argument. The Bible uses a word "bitumen" aka "pitch" which was a form of oil, so the term would not have been foreign to Isaac.


~serapha~

 

[TheMainException]

Very interesting......

Good question brother.

 

[LegomasterJC]

fatness of the land is more like fruit of the land, food that he could live off of from the land, and water to drink. He's saying that all he gets is to live off of the land not any of the riches that his brother recieved.

 

[no_worries]

I always thought it was talking more about water making the land fruitful and stuff.. but hey, I've been wrong before.