Hebrews 11:20
New International Version
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.

New Living Translation
It was by faith that Isaac promised blessings for the future to his sons, Jacob and Esau.

English Standard Version
By faith Isaac invoked future blessings on Jacob and Esau.

Berean Standard Bible
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

Berean Literal Bible
By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the things coming.

King James Bible
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

New King James Version
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

New American Standard Bible
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even regarding things to come.

NASB 1995
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even regarding things to come.

NASB 1977
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even regarding things to come.

Legacy Standard Bible
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even regarding things to come.

Amplified Bible
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau [believing what God revealed to him], even regarding things to come.

Christian Standard Bible
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

American Standard Version
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
By the faith of what was future, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.

Contemporary English Version
Isaac had faith, and he promised blessings to Jacob and Esau.

Douay-Rheims Bible
By faith also of things to come, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.

English Revised Version
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Faith led Isaac to bless Jacob and Esau.

Good News Translation
It was faith that made Isaac promise blessings for the future to Jacob and Esau.

International Standard Version
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in regard to their future.

Literal Standard Version
By faith, concerning coming things, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.

Majority Standard Bible
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

New American Bible
By faith regarding things still to come Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.

NET Bible
By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.

New Revised Standard Version
By faith Isaac invoked blessings for the future on Jacob and Esau.

New Heart English Bible
By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

Webster's Bible Translation
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

Weymouth New Testament
Through faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even in connexion with things soon to come.

World English Bible
By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

Young's Literal Translation
By faith, concerning coming things, Isaac did bless Jacob and Esau;

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Faith of Isaac, Jacob, Joseph
19Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death. 20By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future. 21By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons and worshiped as he leaned on the top of his staff.…

Cross References
Genesis 27:4
Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die."

Genesis 27:27
So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: "Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.

Genesis 27:39
His father Isaac answered him: "Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.


Treasury of Scripture

By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

Genesis 27:27-40
And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed: …

Genesis 28:2,3
Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother…

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Hebrews 11
1. What faith is.
6. Without faith we cannot please God.
7. The examples of faithfulness in the fathers of old time.














(20) Concerning things to come.--It is probable, though not certain, that the word "even" should be inserted before "concerning"; on these words, then, the emphasis will rest. Not having regard to things present only, or things almost at hand, but looking far into the future, through the divine revelation which opened to him the meaning of the promises received by Abraham, he gave to each son the blessing designed by God (Genesis 27:27-29; Genesis 27:39-40). Isaac's confidence in the divine guidance of his words is especially seen in Hebrews 11:33 of the chapter.

Verse 20. - By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even (or, also) concerning things to come. Here the word καὶ (omitted in the Textus Receptus) gives force to what is meant; words uttered by the patriarchs in the spirit of prophecy being now adduced as further evidence of their faith. To those inspired by this spirit even the distant future is realized as present; and faith is not only a condition of such prophetic visions being granted to them, but is also evinced by their trusting the visions as Divine revelations, and speaking with confidence accordingly. The prophet seems as though able himself to control the future by giving or withholding blessing (cf. Jeremiah 1:10); but it is really that his mind and will are at one with the mind and will of God: a Divine voice speaks within him, and through faith he is receptive of it and gives it utterance. Thus it was that even the future characters, and changing relations to each other, of the yet unborn races of Israel and Edom are represented as having been foreshadowed in the blessings of that dying patriarch.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
By faith
Πίστει (Pistei)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 4102: Faith, belief, trust, confidence; fidelity, faithfulness.

Isaac
Ἰσαὰκ (Isaak)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2464: (Hebrew), Isaac, the patriarch. Of Hebrew origin; Isaac, the son of Abraham.

blessed
εὐλόγησεν (eulogēsen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2127: (lit: I speak well of) I bless; pass: I am blessed. From a compound of eu and logos; to speak well of, i.e. to bless.

Jacob
Ἰακὼβ (Iakōb)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2384: Of Hebrew origin; Jacob, the progenitor of the Israelites.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

Esau
Ἠσαῦ (Ēsau)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2269: Esau, elder son of Isaac the patriarch, brother of Jacob. Of Hebrew origin; Esau, an Edomite.

concerning
περὶ (peri)
Preposition
Strong's 4012: From the base of peran; properly, through, i.e. Around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time.

the future.
μελλόντων (mellontōn)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 3195: A strengthened form of melo; to intend, i.e. Be about to be, do, or suffer something.


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