6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take to himself a wife from there , and that when he blessed him he charged him, saying , " You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan ," 7 and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram . 8 So Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan displeased his father Isaac ; 9 and Esau went to Ishmael , and married e , besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael , Abraham's son , the sister of Nebaioth .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Genesis 28:6-9
Commentary on Genesis 28:6-9
(Read Genesis 28:6-9)
Good examples impress even the profane and malicious. But Esau thought, by pleasing his parents in one thing, to atone for other wrong doings. Carnal hearts are apt to think themselves as good as they should be, because in some one matter they are not so bad as they have been.