Genesis 24:1

When Abraham was very old and the Lord had blessed him in every way,

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

In Context

2Abraham said to the eldest of his household servants, who had charge of all his affairs, “Put your hand under my thigh,

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Cross References

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

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

Genesis 25:20Isaac was forty years old, when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Matthew 6:33But first seek his kingdom and the righteousness that he requires, and then all these things will be added for 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 →

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