Genesis 24:1
Now Abraham was old and far on in years: and the Lord had given him everything in full measure.
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In The King James Version
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
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Cross References
Genesis 13:2Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.
Genesis 21:5Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.
Genesis 25:20Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.
1 Kings 1:1Now King David was old and far on in years; and though they put covers over him, his body was cold.
Proverbs 10:22The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.
Matthew 6:33But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 24:1
Marriages and funerals are the changes of families, and the common news among the inhabitants of the villages. In the foregoing chapter we had Abraham burying his wife, here we have him marrying his son. These stories concerning his family, with their minute circumstances, are largely related, while the histories of the kingdoms of the world then in being, with their revolutions, are buried in silence; for the Lord knows those that are his. The subjoining of Isaac's marriage to Sarah's funeral (with a particular… Read the whole commentary →