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Lesson 6 · November 5, 1898

Meeting of Jacob and Esau

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  1. 1.Whom was Jacob now fearlessly prepared to see? .
  2. 2.What arrangement, however, did he make of his family? .
  3. 3.Describe the meeting of this humble shepherd and that warrior chief. .
  4. 4.How did Jacob's family meet Esau? .
  5. 5.What question did Esau now ask? What was Jacob's reply? .
  6. 6.Did Esau wish to take the present? .
  7. 7.How was it that Jacob could see the face of God in Esau's face? .
  8. 8.By what words did he show that he recognized the hand of God in all his dealings with him? .
  9. 9.What proposition did Esau now make? .
  10. 10.Did Jacob accept it? .
  11. 11.What other proposition of Esau's was gracefully rejected? .
  12. 12.Where did Esau now go? To what place did Jacob journey? .
  13. 13.Where did Jacob journey from Succoth? .
  14. 14.What example of Abraham's did he follow here? What name did he give the altar? .
  15. 15.After his experiences at Shechem, what instruction did the Lord give Jacob? .
  16. 16.What did Jacob say to his household? .
  17. 17.What were their strange gods? and what was done with them? Why did not the people pursue after them? .
  18. 18.How did Jacob here reveal his reverence for God? What did he call the altar? .
  19. 19.What sad event occurred in this place? .
  20. 20.What blessing was here renewed? Compare it with the previous blessing at Penuel. .
  21. 21.By what ceremony did Jacob here reveal his reverence for the Lord? .

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Notes

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The life of Jacob is a vivid illustration of the utter futility of human planning to accomplish the designs of God. "The wisdom of any human agent is not sufficient for the planning and devising in this time. Spread every plan before God, with fasting, with the humbling of the soul before the Lord Jesus, and commit thy ways unto the Lord, and the promise is, 'He shall direct thy paths.'" "The Lord will work in this last work in a manner very much out of the common order of things, and in a way that will be contrary to any human planning. . . . God will use ways and means by which it will be seen that He is taking the lines in His own hands. Workers will be surprised by the simple means that He will use to bring about and perfect His work of righteousness." It is by prayer that we know the will and plans of God. It is the prayer, and not the planning, of Jacob that turns the heart of Esau.

Additional Study

  1. 1.Write a comparison of the lives of Jacob and Esau.
  2. 2.What did Jacob's attitude in this meeting with Esau signify as to his mind with reference to his former course concerning the birthright?
  3. 3.Note the directions of Mt. Seir and Succoth from this place of meeting.
  4. 4.Who had been at Shalem before Jacob stopped there? Between what two famous mountains was the field of Shechem?
  5. 5.Trace Jacob's travels from Haran back to Bethel, and look up the places in the Bible dictionary.
  6. 6.How often do we read of Esau's erecting an altar to the Lord? Jacob? What does this show?

Bible texts in this lesson

Genesis 33 · Genesis 35:1-15 · Genesis 33:1 · Genesis 33:2 · Genesis 33:3 · Genesis 33:4 · Genesis 33:5-7 · Genesis 33:8 · Genesis 33:9 · Genesis 33:10 · Genesis 33:11 · Genesis 33:12 · Genesis 33:13 · Genesis 33:14 · Genesis 33:15 · Genesis 33:16 · Genesis 33:17 · Genesis 33:18 · Genesis 33:19 · Genesis 33:20 · Genesis 35:1 · Genesis 35:2 · Genesis 35:3 · Genesis 35:4 · Genesis 35:5 · Genesis 35:6 · Genesis 35:7 · Genesis 35:8 · Genesis 35:9-13 · Genesis 35:14 · Genesis 35:15

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