Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Genesis 25:7
These are the days of Abraham He lived just a hundred years after he came to Canaan; so long he was a sojourner in a strange land.
These are the days of Abraham He lived just a hundred years after he came to Canaan; so long he was a sojourner in a strange land.
Verse Genesis 25:7. _THE DAYS OF THE YEARS, C._] There is a beauty in this expression which is not sufficiently regarded. Good men do not live by _centuries_, though many such have lived several hund...
- 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...
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....
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...
175 YEARS. Therefore. sojourner 100 years. Compare Genesis 12:4....
_And these are the days_ Cf. the age of Terah, Genesis 11:32 (P). Abraham Isaiah 30 years younger than Terah at his death....
(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,...
_AND THESE ARE THE DAYS OF THE YEARS OF ABRAHAM'S LIFE WHICH HE LIVED, AN HUNDRED THREESCORE AND FIFTEEN YEARS._ These are the days of ... Abraham. His death is here related, though he lived until Ja...
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...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 25 ABRAHAM DIES V1 Abraham married another wife, who was called Keturah. V2 She became the mother of Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and S...
AN HUNDRED THREESCORE AND FIFTEEN YEARS. — As Abraham was seventy-five years of age when he left Haran (Genesis 12:4), his sojourn in Canaan lasted just a century, one quarter of which was spent in th...
וְ אֵ֗לֶּה יְמֵ֛י שְׁנֵֽי ־חַיֵּ֥י אַבְרָהָ֖ם...
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...
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...
7._And these are the days_. Moses now brings us down to the death of Abraham; and the first thing to be noticed concerning his age is the number of years during which he lived as a pilgrim; for he des...
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...
AND THESE [ARE] THE DAYS OF THE YEARS OF ABRAHAM'S LIFE, WHICH HE LIVED,.... Being about to die, an account is given of his age, which was AN HUNDRED THREESCORE AND FIFTEEN YEARS; one hundred and sev...
And these [are] the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years. Ver. 7. _!!An hundred threescore and fifteen years._] He was sixty-five when he came o...
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...
ABRAHAM'S DEATH AND BURIAL...
And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years. So he lived fully seventy-five years after the birth of Isaac and saw his grandsons grow...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse. _1822_...
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 25:7 sum H3117 years H8141 Abrahams H85 life H2416 lived H2425 (H8804) hundred H3967 H8141 seventy-five...
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 25:7 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...
_These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life:--_ THE LAST YEARS OF ABRAHAM I. ON THEIR NATURAL SIDE. Active to the last. II. ON THEIR SPIRITUAL SIDE. He provided for the purity and peace of 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,...
A.M. 2183. B.C. 1821. Genesis 12:4...
And these are the days of Abraham — He lived one hundred and seventy — five years; just a hundred years after he came to Canaan; so long he was a sojourner in a strange country....