Genesis 24:1
And Avraham was zaken (old), and well stricken in age; and Hashem berach (had blessed) Avraham in all things.
Orthodox Jewish 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 Avram was very rich in cattle, in kesef, and in zahav.
Genesis 21:5And Avraham was a hundred years old, when bno Yitzchak was born unto him.
Genesis 25:20And Yitzchak was arba'im shanah when he took Rivkah as his wife, the bat Betuel HaArami of Paddan-Aram, the achot Lavan HaArami.
1 Kings 1:1Now HaMelech Dovid was zaken and stricken in yamim; and they covered him with begadim, but he could get no warmth.
Proverbs 10:22The Birkat Hashem, it maketh wealthy, 1 and He addeth no sorrow with it. 1
Matthew 6:33But seek first the Malchut Hashem and the Tzidkat Hashem, and all these things will be added to 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 →