Genesis 24:1

At that time Abraham was very old. God was looking after him well, he gave him animals and belongings in abundance, truly he did good to him.

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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.

In Context

2One day Abraham called a man, an important worker of his. He was boss for all Abraham's other workers. He said to him, “You will go to bring a wife for my son. Truly do not bring a woman who is an inhabitant of this country. Certainly not. Go to my own country. Bring a wife for him from my family. Put your hand between my thighs, give me your true word, you will do like that in accordance with my word. You know about God, he is the one who made the sky and the ground. He will hear your word. If you ignore me, he will know about you.”

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Cross References

Genesis 13:2At that time Abram had very many animals, sheep, goats, cattle, donkeys, camels, gold and money, anything.

Genesis 21:5At that time he was very old, he had 100 years.

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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