"When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite; and they MADE LIFE BITTER for Isaac and Rebekah..."Gen. 26:34-35
"Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him, "You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women..."Gen. 28:1
"Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he charged him, "You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women. ....So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please his father Isaac, Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael, and sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had" Gen. 28:6, 8-9.
Esau's foreign wives "made life bitter" for his parents the quiet, godly and non-confrontational Isaac and Rebekah. Just when they should have been celebrating grandchildren they were being deeply hurt. Unbelieving partners often cause real grief to the family of the Christian partner. Their ways are just not Christian ways and Satan, with his control strings attached to their lives, can create pain, hurt and discord through them. Esau also hurt himself, he saw that his wrong marriages hurt his parents and that Jacobs godly marriage delighted them so in addition to his troublesome wives he went and took believing wives in a sad attempt to win parental blessing (Genesis 28:8,9). His original wives would have been hurt by this. So Esau's unwise marriages ended up hurting his parents, himself and his wives. Also his choice of believing partner was not altogether politic. He ended up marrying a believer from the family of Ishmael, Isaac's direct rival. Children who foolishly marry unbelievers cause their parents pain. Learn a lesson from the marriage of Esau and avoid the pitfall of marriage.
"Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, and charged him, "You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women..."Gen. 28:1
"Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he charged him, "You shall not marry one of the Canaanite women. ....So when Esau saw that the Canaanite women did not please his father Isaac, Esau went to Ishmael and took Mahalath daughter of Abraham's son Ishmael, and sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife in addition to the wives he had" Gen. 28:6, 8-9.
Esau's foreign wives "made life bitter" for his parents the quiet, godly and non-confrontational Isaac and Rebekah. Just when they should have been celebrating grandchildren they were being deeply hurt. Unbelieving partners often cause real grief to the family of the Christian partner. Their ways are just not Christian ways and Satan, with his control strings attached to their lives, can create pain, hurt and discord through them. Esau also hurt himself, he saw that his wrong marriages hurt his parents and that Jacobs godly marriage delighted them so in addition to his troublesome wives he went and took believing wives in a sad attempt to win parental blessing (Genesis 28:8,9). His original wives would have been hurt by this. So Esau's unwise marriages ended up hurting his parents, himself and his wives. Also his choice of believing partner was not altogether politic. He ended up marrying a believer from the family of Ishmael, Isaac's direct rival. Children who foolishly marry unbelievers cause their parents pain. Learn a lesson from the marriage of Esau and avoid the pitfall of marriage.
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