‘He went to be with his fathers.’ A man’s body dies. But, if the man knows God, his spirit still lives. Abraham knew this. He knew that he would be with his fathers and with God. Jacob also knew this. (See Genesis 35:29.) And so did Joseph. (See Genesis 47:30.)
Verse Genesis 25:8. _THEN ABRAHAM GAVE UP THE GHOST_] Highly as I value our translation for general accuracy, fidelity, and elegance, I must beg leave to dissent from this version. The original word...
- The Death of Abraham 1. קטוּרה _qeṭûrâh_, “Qeturah, incense.” 2. זמרן _zı̂mrān_, “Zimran, celebrated in song.” יקשׁן _yāqshān_, “Joqshan, fowler.” מדן _medān_, “Medan, judge.” מדין...
CHAPTER 25:1-11 ABRAHAM'S POSTERITY FROM KETURAH AND HIS DEATH _ 1. Abraham's offspring from Keturah (Genesis 25:1)_ 2. Isaac the heir (Genesis 25:5) 3. Abraham's death and burial (Genesis 25:7) Ab...
GENESIS 12:1 TO GENESIS 25:18. THE STORY OF ABRAHAM. In this section the three main sources, J. E, P are present. Gunkel has given strong reasons for holding that J is here made up of two main sources...
THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF ABRAHAM. This is from P except Genesis 25:11_ b_, which is from J and should follow Genesis 25:5. GENESIS 25:8. HIS PEOPLE: better his father's kin, _i.e._ in Sheol....
FULL OF. Hebrew "satisfied with". Supply "days" (not "years"), with Samaritan Pentateuch, Targum of Onkelos, The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, Septuagint, and Syriac. GATHERED TO HIS PEOPLE, an idiom...
_gave up the ghost_ Cf. Genesis 25:7; Genesis 35:29; Genesis 49:33 (P): the same word as "die" in Genesis 6:17;...
AN OLD MAN, AND FULL— There is nothing for, _of years,_ in the Hebrew: the word is שׂבע _sabang, full, satiated, satisfied:_ having _completed_ the business of his life, and being _fully satisfied_ wi...
(3) _The Death and Burial of Abraham (Genesis 25:7-11_). 7 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, a hundred threescore and fiteen years. 8 And Abraham gave up the ghost,...
_THEN ABRAHAM GAVE UP THE GHOST, AND DIED IN A GOOD OLD AGE, AN OLD MAN, AND FULL OF YEARS; AND WAS GATHERED TO HIS PEOPLE._ Died in a good old age - in filfillment of the prediction (Genesis 15:15)....
THE SONS OF ABRAHAM BY KETURAH. DEATH AND BURIAL OF ABRAHAM. DESCENDANTS OF ISHMAEL. BIRTH AND YOUTH OF ESAU AND JACOB 1. It is not known at what period of his life Abraham took Keturah as his seconda...
GAVE UP THE GHOST] an expression taken from the Genevan Bible. The Hebrew word means simply 'to die,' lit. 'come to an end.' WAS GATHERED TO HIS PEOPLE] joined his ancestors in the unseen world. The e...
וַ יִּגְוַ֨ע וַ יָּ֧מָת אַבְרָהָ֛ם בְּ שֵׂיבָ
ESAU AND JACOB Genesis 25:1 "He goeth as an ox goeth to the slaughter, till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life."- Proverbs 7:22...
ABRAHAM'S DEATH AND BURIAL Genesis 25:1 After being for sixteen years contemporary with his grandsons, Esau and Jacob, Abraham died without owning a foot of land except the cave for which he had paid...
The record of the death of Abraham is full of beauty. His life had been spent in the realm of the supernatural, the region of vision, the power of the spiritual. The whole of it is summed up in the wo...
ABRAHAM'S DEATH AND BURIAL Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah. Abraham lived another 35 years beyond that time. He took another wife named Keturah. She bore six sons to him. Those sons...
Good old age. Because well spent: though he lived not so long as many of the wicked; decaying not by any violent disorder, but dropping off like a ripe apple. --- Being full. The Hebrew does not expre...
And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years. Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years...
We have had hitherto God's account of that which He had made; then the trial and utter ruin of the creature, with the revelation of divine mercy in Christ the Lord. We have had in fine the judgment of...
_‘A GOOD OLD AGE’_ ‘Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.’ Genesis 25:8 ‘Full of years’ is not a mere synonym for...
8._Then Abraham gave up the ghost _(20) They are mistaken who suppose that this expression denotes sudden death, as intimating that he had not been worn out by long disease, but expired without pain....
We have next the election of God which now sets apart the earthly people, Jacob. It is remarkable how little we have of Isaac, nothing but his remaining in heavenly places, I mean of course in the fig...
THEN ABRAHAM GAVE UP THE GHOST,.... Very readily and cheerfully, without any previous sickness or present pain, but through the decay of nature by reason of old age, in a very easy quiet manner: AND...
_Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full [of years]; and was gathered to his people._ Ver. 8. _Gave up the ghost._] _Deficit; leniter, expiravit. Describit Mo...
_He died in a good old age_ As God had promised him; good, _through grace_, his hoary head being found in the way of righteousness; and _naturally_ good, he being free, it seems, from many of the infi...
1 The sonnes of Abraham by Keturah. 5 The diuision of his goods. 7 His age and death. 9 His buriall. 12 The generations of Ishmael. 17 His age, and death. 19 Isaac prayeth for Rebekah being barr...
Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died-in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people. Though Abraham did not live as long as his forefathers before him, yet he had...
ABRAHAM'S DEATH AND BURIAL...
THIRTEENTH SECTION _Abraham’s second Marriage. Keturah and her Sons. Abraham’s death and his burial_ GENESIS 25:1-10 1Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name _was_ Keturah [incense, vapor, frag...
OTHER GENERATIONS OF ABRAHAM We are not told what time Abraham took Keturah as a wife. Of course, God could enable him to be a father of children even after Sarah had died, but in this case he would b...
1-10 All the days, even of the best and greatest saints, are not remarkable days; some slide on silently; such were these last days of Abraham. Here is an account of Abraham's children by Keturah, an...
His soul was not _required_ of him, as it was of that fool, LUKE 12:20; not forced from him by sharp and violent diseases, but was quietly, easily, and cheerfully yielded up by him into the hands of h...
In the opening of this chapter, Abraham's second marriage is set before us, an event not without its interest to the spiritual mind, when viewed in connection with what we have been considering in the...
Genesis 25:8 Abraham H85 last H1478 (H8799) died H4191 (H8799) good H2896 age H7872 man H2205 full...
THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM AND HIS DISPOSITIONS (GENESIS 25:1 A) The first tablet contains Abraham's final disposition of his estate (Genesis 25:1). This is described as ‘the family history of Ishmael, the...
Genesis 25:8 "Full of years" is not a mere synonym for longevity. The expression is by no means a usual one. It is applied to Isaac at the close of his calm, contemplative life, to David at the end of...
Genesis 25:7 I. The expression "a good old age" is only used of three individuals in the Scripture Abraham, Gideon, and David. It forms the epitaph recorded by the Spirit on their tombs. By the expres...
Genesis 25 _(with Hebrews 12:16)_ The chief use, apparently, of some men's lives is that they may serve as beacons, warning off those who come after them from quicksand or whirlpool. They flame amids...
CONTENTS: Abraham weds Keturah. Isaac becomes Abraham's heir. Death of Abraham. Generations of Ishmael and Isaac. Birth of Esau and Jacob and the sale of the birthright. CHARACTERS: Abraham, Keturah,...
Genesis 25:1. _Keturah_ is here called a wife; but a learned writer in his _Bibliotheca Biblia,_ printed at Oxford 1720, brings forward a supposition of the Jews, that Hagar returned to Abraham after...
_Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and fall of years; and was gathered to his people_ ABRAHAM’S DEPARTURE “Full of years” is not a mere synonym for longevity. T...
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...
EXPOSITION 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...
Then in chapter twenty-five we find that Abraham [after Sarah's death] took another wife, her name was Keturah. [The name means, "mother of us all".] And she bare him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian,...
gave. Genesis 25:17 Genesis 35:18 Genesis 49:33 Acts 5:5 Acts 5:10...
He died in a good old age, an old man — So God had promised him. His death was his discharge from the burdens of his age: it was also the crown of the glory of his old age. He was full of years — A go...
Did the Hebrews have a concept of life after death at such an early point in their history? PROBLEM: Critical scholars assert that the early Hebrews had a very rudimentary religion that over the cent...