foreknew, as the occasion to make Jacob His chosen vessel in the history of salvation. He does the same now for the Gentile believers. As for Esau himself, he got exactly what he deserved. His own place in biblical history was to be shoved off to the side, a vessel of dishonor (9:21). Instead of inheriting the Promised Land, which should have been his birthright, he was obliged to become merely a desert chieftain (Malachi 1:2–3). Contemning his own inheritance, he made that choice himself (Hebrews