CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 25:1. Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. “Keturah is called a concubine in 1 Chronicles 1:32. It is usually assumed, but merely on the assumption of the history following in chronological sequences, that Abraham espoused Keturah after Sarah’s death. An... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 25:8. Gave up the ghost, and died.] “The two verbs are identical in meaning: the repetition belongs to the solemnity of the narrative.” (_Alford_.) _In a good old age._ Not as to length of years, but in the sense of a happy old age, being blessed both outwardly and inwardly.... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 25:12. These are the generations.] Forms the eighth document so commencing.— GENESIS 25:16. BY THEIR TOWNS, AND BY THEIR CASTLES.] “The former are unwalled collections of houses or perhaps tents; the latter fortified keeps or encampments.” (_Murphy.) Kalish_ renders the cl... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 25:19. These are the generations.] The ninth document here begins with the usual phrase, and continues to the end of the thirty-fifth chapter. It contains the history of the second of the three patriarchs, or rather indeed, as the opening phrase intimates, of the generation... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 25:25. Esau.] Signifies _hairy._ Some understand the word to be derived from a verb meaning done, or finished, and therefore describing one who was prematurely developed.— GENESIS 25:26. JACOB.] This name means _he shall hold the heel._ (Hosea 12:4.) Hence the other meanin... [ Continue Reading ]
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 25:29. Sod pottage.] “That is, _seethed or boiled_—_a soup._ This pottage is a very common dish in that country. It is made up of different grain or lentiles, bruised and boiled as a broth. There was a red pottage, made chiefly of a red grain.” (_Jacobus._)— GENESIS 25:30.... [ Continue Reading ]