As Jacob lay there one evening, his life flashed before him. He had deceived his dying father into believing he was passing on the family blessing to his oldest, Esau, when it was actually Jacob.

By R.A. Mathews Life had weathered him. In 1948, on the heels of WWII, Winston Churchill famously said, “Those that fail to ...

In return, God promised to give Abraham and his wife Sarah ... and Isaac handed it on to his own son, Jacob. Therefore Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are known as Israel’s patriarchs.