Genesis 24:1

And Abraham was old, well stricken in age; and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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

2And Abraham said unto his servant, the elder of his house, that ruled over all that he had: 'Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:2And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

Genesis 21:5And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

Genesis 25:20And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean, of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.

1 Kings 1:1NOW KING David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he could get no heat.

Proverbs 10:22The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and toil addeth nothing thereto.

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 →

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