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The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 24:61-67
A bride for the heir.-4. Rebekah and Isaac, or the wedding of the bride. I. THE PENSIVE BRIDEGROOM. 1. Mourning for his mother. Isaac's meditation clearly includes this. Good mothers, when they die, should be deeply and…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 24:62
And (when the bridal train was nearing home) Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai-roi;—Hagar's well (Genesis 16:7, Genesis 16:14)—for he dwelt in the south country—on the Negeb (vide Genesis 12:9). Abraham may by t…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 24:63
And Isaac went out to meditate— לָשׂוּח; to think (LXX; Vulgate, Murphy, Kalisch); to pray (Onkelos, Samaritan, Kimchi, Luther, Keil); to lament (Knobel, Lange); doubtless to do all three, to commune with his heart and…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 24:63
Isaac in the field. "And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at eventide." Isaac was one of the less prominent among the patriarchs. He seems to have lacked energy of character, but there was great devoutness. His l…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 24:64
And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw (literally, and she saw, though as yet she did not know that it was) Isaac, she lighted—literally, fell; the word signifying a hasty descent (cf. 1 Samuel 25:23; 2 Kings…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 24:65
For she had said (literally, and she said; not before, but after alighting) unto the servant (of Abraham), What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us?—Isaac having obviously hastened forward to give a welcome…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 24:67
And Isaac—receiving an account (Genesis 24:66) from his father's faithful ambassador of all things that he had done—brought her into his mother Sarah's tent (which must have been removed from Hebron as a precious relic…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 25:1-18
The line of blessing. Although Abraham has many descendants, he carefully distinguishes the line of the Divine blessing. His peaceful end at 175 years set the seal upon a long life of faith and fellowship with God. His…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 25:1-11
EXPOSITION
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 25:1
Then again Abraham took a wife,—literally, and Abraham added and took a wife (i.e. a secondary wife, or concubine, pilgash; vide Genesis 25:6 and 1 Chronicles 1:28, 1 Chronicles 1:32); but whether after (Kalisch, Lunge,…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 25:1-11
The last days of Abraham. I. ABRAHAM'S OLD AGE. 1. The taking of a second wife. 2. The making of his will. II. ABRAHAM'S DEATH. 1. Before death. The age to which the patriarch had attained was— 2. At death. His end was…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 25:2
And she bare him Zimran,—identified with Zabram, west of Mecca, on the Red Sea (Knobel, Keil); or the Zimareni, in the interior of Arabia (Delitzsch, Kalisch)—and Jokshan,—the Kassamitae, on the Red Sea (Knobel); or the…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 25:3
And Jokshan begat Sheba,—probably the Sabeans: Job 1:15; Job 6:19 (Keil)—and Dedan—probably the trading people mentioned in Jeremiah 25:23 (Keil). And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim,—who have been associated with the w…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 25:4
And the sons of Midian; Ephah (vide Isaiah 60:6), and Epher (Bent Ghifar in Hejas), and Hanoch (Hanakye, three days north of Medinah), and Abidah, and Eldaah—the tribes of Abide and Vadaa in the neighborhood of Asir. Ke…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 25:7
And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived,—an impressive and appropriate expression for the computation of life (of. Genesis 47:9)—an hundred and threescore and fifteen years—i.e. 175 years; s…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 25:8-10
Then Abraham gave up the ghost (literally, breathed out, a the breath of life), and died in a good old age,—literally, in a flood hoary age, i.e. "with a crown of righteousness upon his hoary head" (Hughes)—an old man,…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 25:11
And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God—Elohim; whence the preceding section is ascribed to the Elohist; but the general name of God is here employed because the statement partakes merely of the nature…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 25:12
Now these are the generations of Ishmael,—the opening of a new section (cf. Genesis 2:4), in which the fortunes of Abraham's eldest son are briefly traced before proceeding with the main current of the history in the li…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 25:12-18
The generations of Ishmael, or the biography of a prince. I. THE PRINCE'S NAME. Ishmael. 1. The significance of his name. "God hears.' It was thus a perpetual reminder to its bearer of a grand religious truth, that God…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 25:12-18
§ 8. THE GENERATIONS OF ISHMAEL (Genesis 25:12-18). EXPOSITION
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 25:13
And these are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth;—"Heights;" the Nabathaeans, a people of Northern Arabia, possessed of abundant flocks (…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 25:14
And Mishma,—"Hearing" (Gesenius); Masma (LXX; Vulgate); connected with the Maisaimeneis, north-east of Medina (Knobel)—and Dumah,—"Silence;" same as Stony Dumah, or Syrian Dumah, in Arabia, on the edge of the Syrian des…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 25:15
Hadar,—"Chamber" (Gesenius); Ha'dad (1 Chronicles 1:30, LXX; Samaritan, and most MSS.); though Gesenius regards Hadar as probably the true reading in both places; identified with a tribe in Yemen (Gesenius); between Oma…
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 25:16
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns,—unwalled encampments, from hatzar, to surround; used of the movable villages of nomadic tribes (cf. Isaiah 42:11)—and by their castles;—fortified…