Genesis 24:1

And Abraham was old, advanced in days, and the Lord blessed Abraham in all things.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 to his servant the elder of his house, who had rule over all his possessions, Put thy hand under my thigh,

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Cross References

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

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

Genesis 25:20Abraham begot Isaac. And Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Syrian, out of Syrian Mesopotamia, sister of Laban the Syrian.

1 Kings 1:1And King David was old and advanced in days, and they covered him with clothes, and he was not warmed.

Proverbs 10:22The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the righteous; 1 It enriches him, and grief of heart shall not be added to it. 1

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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