The Bible In Paintings: JACOB RECONCILES WITH ESAU

[Hebrews 11:6]

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G E N E S I S
CHAPTER 33

Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two maidservants. He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the rear. He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.

But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept. Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. “Who are these with you?” he asked.

Jacob answered, “They are the children God has graciously given your servant.”

Then the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down. Next, Leah and her children came and bowed down. Last of all came Joseph and Rachel, and they too bowed down.

Esau asked, “What do you mean by all these droves I met?”

“To find favor in your eyes, my lord,” he said.

But Esau said, “I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.”

“No, please!” said Jacob. “If I have found favor in your eyes, accept this gift from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God, now that you have received me favorably. Please accept the present that was brought to you, for God has been gracious to me and I have all I need.” And because Jacob insisted, Esau accepted it.

Then Esau said, “Let us be on our way; I’ll accompany you.”

But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die. So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the droves before me and that of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”

Esau said, “Then let me leave some of my men with you.”

“But why do that?” Jacob asked. “Just let me find favor in the eyes of my lord.”

So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir.

Jacob, however, went to Succoth, where he built a place for himself and made shelters for his livestock.

New International Version ©1984, Abrdgd, EMPHASES Added

1
JAMES TISSOT
"Jacob Sees Esau Coming to Meet Him"

2
SIMON DE VOS
"Meeting of Esau and Jacob"

3
CASPAR JACOB VAN OPSTAL the Younger
"Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau"

4
PETER PAUL RUBENS
"The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau"

5
PETER PAUL RUBENS
"The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau"

6
"The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau"

7
JAN VAN DEN HOECKE
"Jacob and Esau Are Reconciled"

8
GIOVANNI MARIA BOTTALA
"Meeting between Esau and Jacob"

9
JAN VICTORS
"Jacob Seeking the Forgiveness of Esau"

10
ADOLF HULT
"Jacob Reconciled with Esau"

11
GEORGE FREDERIC WATTS
"Jacob and Esau"

12
ANTON MIROU
"The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau"

13
JAMES TISSOT
"The Meeting of Esau and Jacob"

14
"Jacob Meets His Brother Esau"

15
JACOB WILLEMSZ DELFF
"Reconciliation of Jacob with Esau"

16
Italian School
"The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau"

17
CASPAR JACOB VAN OPSTAL
"Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau"

18
CORNELIS VAN HAARLEM
"Meeting of Jacob and Esau"

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19
FRANCESCO HAYEZ
"Meeting of Jacob and Esau"

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[Hebrews 11:6]

J A C O B
ESAU'S BIRTHRIGHT, JACOB'S BLESSING
JACOB'S STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
JACOB FLEES FROM LABAN
JACOB WRESTLES WITH GOD
JACOB RECONCILES WITH ESAU

J O S E P H
YOUNG JOSEPH'S DREAMS
JOSEPH'S ABDUCTION TO EGYPT
JOSEPH AND POTIPHAR'S WIFE
JOSEPH INTERPRETS PRISONERS' DREAMS
JOSEPH INTERPRETS PHARAOH'S DREAMS
JOSEPH'S BROTHERS IN EGYPT

[Red Badger]

Esau is the progenitor of the Edomites:

[Red Badger]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7497777/Slagheaps-reveal-ancient-Biblical-kingdom-Edom-REAL-scientists-claim.html

[Hebrews 11:6]

Thank you! Seems like in those days you were nobody unless you were the progenitor of some large group—Israel, Edom, Ammon, Moab....

[etabeta]

Thank you Dan for the map!
#19 by Hayez is very beautiful.

[Red Badger]

As Woody Allen once said, all our ancestors sat around campfires telling dirty stories about our neighbors..............

[Hebrews 11:6]

Human nature never changes.

[etabeta]

Thank you for this article. Now the scientists will argue for a decade and maybe reach a general agreement.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Now, I am eager to see other works by Hayez.

[Red Badger]

The Philistines were eventually absorbed into the Southern Kingdom of Judah-Benjamin and became Jews!...................

[Red Badger]

https://www.wikiart.org/en/francesco-hayez

[Hebrews 11:6]

Certainly took quite awhile for Judah finally to declare victory.

[Red Badger]

After David, the Philistines were basically quiet and and peaceful, intermarrying and intermarrying some more until they essentially lost their cultural identity and were indistinguishable from local Aramean-Semitic stock.............

[left that other site]

Good Morning, Dan! :-)

[stars & stripes forever]

How good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. (Psalm 133:1)

[Hebrews 11:6]

142 thanks—although I’ve no idea why the compiler felt it necessary to include the last dozen or so.

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You have lots o’ siblings, Mary-Lou. I hope and trust there are amicable relationships. Your periodic descriptions certainly make it seem so....

[Hebrews 11:6]

Well applied, Debbie.

[stars & stripes forever]

I agree. The last few reminded me of the cherished family portraits that somehow adorn the walls of Cracker Barrel restaurants.