Isaac

The aged Isaac senses that Jacob is plotting to steal the blessing intended for Esau, but, always passive, chooses to assume that nothing is wrong.

Context

• Reference: Genesis 27:1

• Abraham's servant, Eliezer, found Isaac a wife, Rebecca.

• They had two sons, Jacob and Esau.

• Jacob got Esau to bargain away his birthright.

• Jacob and Rebecca then conspired to get Isaac, who had become blind, to give him the blessing meant for Esau, by disguising Jacob in animal skins with a texture and scent similar to Esau.

Aftermath

• Esau was furious when he found out that Jacob had stolen his blessing.

• Jacob fled, going to live with Rebecca's brother Laban.

• He eventually married Laban's daughters Rachel and Leah, as well as two of their servants.

Notes

Despite being mentioned frequently in the same breath as his adventurous father Abraham and son Jacob, Isaac never really does much in the Bible. In the few chapters devoted to Isaac, things happen around him and to him, but he rarely makes much of an effort to get anything to happen.

Isaac certainly had his share of shocks and traumas when he was young: being blamed for losing his brother, almost being killed by his father then being mysteriously spared, and being surrounded by mocking laughter in his youngest years when seen with his aged mother. Imprisoned by memory and his fear of doing more things wrong, he sits and lets events play out as they will.