 | William Henry Bartlett - 1849 - 324 pages
...to propitiate him by a present. He next crossed the ford of the Jabbok. Esau now approached, " and ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept. And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children, and he said, Who are those with thee?... | |
 | David M'Conaughy - 1850 - 420 pages
...the meeting of Jacob, and Esau are so interesting and lovely, that I transcribe them in part, — " And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him : and they wept : and he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women, and children, and said who are those with thee ? and... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcombe - 1851 - 250 pages
...passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him : and they wept." That is a very pleasant account to read. Esau, you see, might just as well have left his four hundred... | |
 | Walter Macon Lowrie - 1851 - 494 pages
...therefore, that which he prayed for, and when he met his brother, the lion was changed into a lamb. And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him, and they wept, Gen. \x\iii. 4. It is a sublime thing to pray. Even on earth, when a subject is favored with an audience... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1851 - 396 pages
...and importunate prayer. On the day following the midnight struggle of Jacob, these brothers met, " and Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him; and they wept." Here is the answer to Jacob's prayer; here is the delightful issue of a controversy of twenty years... | |
 | Francis Busteed Ashley - 1851 - 188 pages
...brother. Esau's violence is checked, but Jacob's love and liberality turn his heart to tenderness ; " Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him : and they wept." What an affecting reconciliation ! We know not which to admire most, the kisses or the tears of Esau.... | |
 | Stanley A. Ellisen, Charles H. Dyer - 2003 - 228 pages
...Jacob met a conciliatory brother z coming to welcome him and his family with open arms. "Esau ran to p meet him and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and S they wept" (Genesis 33:4, NASB). His restored relationship with God £ completely changed... | |
 | Daniel G. Samuels - 2003 - 288 pages
...but decided upon some restitution in the form of a gift. And Esau, when he saw his younger brother, ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, kissing him, and they wept.1 This was the kind of human love, between father, mother, brother, sister,... | |
 | James D. Hacker - 2004 - 234 pages
...seven times to Esau, as was the custom of the day, to show honor and humility to Esau. Genesis 33:4 - And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept. After all those years, God had worked on Esau's heart as well as Jacob's, and the twin brothers had... | |
 | Larry Stockstill - 2004 - 130 pages
...awaited the confrontation. But the Bible records a touching scene of family forgiveness and renewal: "And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept" (Gen. 33:4). In that moment of warm embrace, the two brothers were knit together again—brothers in... | |
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And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him : and they wept. 
