Genesis 26:35
 Genesis 26:35 
New International Version (©2011)
They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But Esau's wives made life miserable for Isaac and Rebekah.

English Standard Version (©2001)
and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.

International Standard Version (©2012)
This brought extreme grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

NET Bible (©2006)
They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
These women brought Isaac and Rebekah a lot of grief.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Who were a source of grief unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

American King James Version
Which were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebekah.

American Standard Version
And they were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they both offended the mind of Isaac and Rebecca.

Darby Bible Translation
And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebecca.

English Revised Version
and they were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

Webster's Bible Translation
Who were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah.

World English Bible
They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.

Young's Literal Translation
and they are a bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

26:34,35 Esau was foolish in marrying two wives together, and still more in marrying Canaanites, strangers to the blessing of Abraham, and subject to the curse of Noah. It grieved his parents that he married without their advice and consent. It grieved them that he married among those who had no religion. Children have little reason to expect God's blessing who do that which is a grief of mind to good parents.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 35. - Which were a grief of mind (literally, bitterness of spirit) unto Isaac and to Rebekah - possibly because of their personal characters, but chiefly because of their Canaanitish descent, and because in marrying them Esau had not only violated the Divine law which forbade polygamy, but also evinced an utterly irreligious and unspiritual disposition.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac, and to Rebekah. The marriage of them itself was a trouble to them, it being contrary to their will that any of their children should marry with the Canaanites, and those the worst sort of them, the Hittites; it having been the care of Abraham, the father of Isaac, that his son should not marry with them, and laid a strict injunction on his servant not to take a wife for his son from among them; and which was an example to be followed in later times, and which Esau very likely was not ignorant of: and besides this, the women themselves he took for wives were very disagreeable on all accounts, partly because of their religion, being idolaters, and partly by reason of their temper and behaviour, being proud, haughty, and disobedient; as all the three Targums intimate.


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Esau's Wives
34And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: 35Which were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebekah. 1And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his oldest son, and said to him, My son: and he said to him, Behold, here am I.

Genesis 24:3 I want you to swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,
Genesis 27:46 Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I'm disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living."
Genesis 28:8 Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac;