Genesis 24:1

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

Targum Onkelos

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 authority over all which was his, Put now thy hand under my thigh,

Read all of Genesis 24

Cross References

Genesis 13:2And Abram was exceeding strong in cattle, in silver, and in gold;

Genesis 21:5And Abraham was the son of a hundred years when Izhak his son was born to him.

Genesis 25:20And Izhak was a son of forty years when he took Revekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramite of Padan Aram, the sister of Laban the Aramite, to be his wife.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Genesis 24:1