Genesis 24:1
By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 13:2And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.
Genesis 21:5Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
Genesis 25:20and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
1 Kings 1:1Now King David was old and well along in years, and though they covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.
Proverbs 10:22The blessing of the LORD enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it.
Matthew 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
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 →