Genesis 24:1
Now Abraham was old and of many days. And the Lord had blessed him in all things.
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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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Genesis 13:2But he was very wealthy by the possession of gold and silver.
Genesis 21:5when he was one hundred years old. Indeed, at this stage of his father’s life, Isaac was born.
Genesis 25:20who, when he was forty years old, took Rebekah, the sister of Laban, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian from Mesopotamia, as a wife.
1 Kings 1:1Now king David had become elderly, and he had many days in his lifetime. And though he was covered with clothes, he was not warmed.
Proverbs 10:22The blessing of the Lord causes riches. Affliction will not be a companion to them.
Matthew 6:33Therefore, seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added to you as well.
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 →