Genesis 24:1
And Abraham [is] old, he hath entered into days, and Jehovah hath blessed Abraham in all [things];
Young's Literal Translation
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 [is] exceedingly wealthy in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
Genesis 21:5And Abraham [is] a son of a hundred years in Isaac his son being born to him,
Genesis 25:20and Isaac is a son of forty years in his taking Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean, from Padan-Aram, sister of Laban the Aramaean, to him for a wife.
1 Kings 1:1And king David [is] old, entering into days, and they cover him with garments, and he hath no heat,
Proverbs 10:22The blessing of Jehovah — it maketh rich, And He addeth no grief with it.
Matthew 6:33but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these 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 →