Genesis 24:1
And Abraham was old and far advanced in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
Webster 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 Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
Genesis 21:5And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born to him.
Genesis 25:20And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
1 Kings 1:1Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat.
Proverbs 10:22The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Matthew 6:33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall 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 →