Genesis 24:1
Forsothe Abraham was eld, and of many daies, and the Lord hadde blessid hym in alle thingis.
Wycliffe (portions)
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 13:2Forsothe he was ful riche in possessyoun of siluer and of gold.
Genesis 21:5whanne he was of an hundrid yeer; for Ysaac was borun in this age of the fadir.
Genesis 25:20and whanne Isaac was of fourti yeer, he weddide a wijf, Rebecca, douyter of Batuel, of Sirie of Mesopotanye, the sistir of Laban.
Matthew 6:33Therfor seke ye first the kyngdom of God, and his riytfulnesse, and alle these thingis shulen be cast 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 →