Concubine] a secondary but lawful wife. By such alliances the influence and importance of the family in early times were increased. Regarding these names as those of tribes, what is suggested here is that the last four were related to the main group somewhat distantly.
Verse Genesis 22:24. _HIS CONCUBINE_] We borrow this word from the Latin compound _concubina_, from _con_, together, and _cubo_, to lie, and apply it solely to a woman cohabiting with a man without b...
- Abraham Was Tested 2. מריה _morı̂yâh_, “Moriah”; Samaritan: מוראה _môr'âh_; “Septuagint,” ὑψηλή _hupsēlē_, Onkelos, “worship.” Some take the word to be a simple derivative, as the Septuagint...
CHAPTER 22 THE TESTING OF ABRAHAM _ 1. God's command (Genesis 22:1)_ 2. Abraham's obedience (Genesis 22:3) 3. Isaac's question and Abraham's answer (Genesis 22:7) 4. Isaac upon the altar ...
THE SONS OF NAHOR. From J, touched by the redactor, and inserted to prepare for Genesis 22:24. The names are, partially at any rate, tribal. Discussion of them may be seen in the larger commentaries....
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...
MAACHAH. See Deuteronomy 3:14.Joshua 12:5; 2 Samuel 10:6....
The Genealogy of Nahor (J) In this genealogy it is to be noted, (1) that the home of Nahor and his sons is not Ur, but _Aram Naharaim_, as in Genesis 24:10; (2) that the sons of Nahor, like those of...
_Reumah_ The children of the concubine denote a less intimate tribal relationship than the children of the legal wife. _Maacah_ See 2 Samuel 10:6. A region to the north of Mount Hermon; cf. the mentio...
PART THIRTY-FOUR THE STORY OF ABRAHAM: CONFIRMATION OF THE COVENANT Genesis 22:1-24 _The Sacrifice of Isaac_ (1-24) 1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did prove Abraham, and said unt...
_AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THESE THINGS, THAT IT WAS TOLD ABRAHAM, SAYING, BEHOLD, MILCAH, SHE HATH ALSO BORN CHILDREN UNTO THY BROTHER NAHOR;_ IT WAS TOLD ABRAHAM ... MILCAH, SHE HATH ALSO BORN CHILD...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 22 GOD TESTS ABRAHAM V1 After these things, God tested Abraham. God said to him, ‘Abraham’. And Abraham replied, ‘I am here.’ V2 God said, ‘Take...
Nahor and Milcah lived in the country that was called Mesopotamia. Abraham had lived there before he came to *Canaan. This news told Abraham that he had many relatives in Mesopotamia. So Abraham wait...
MAACHAH. — This name appears as that of a small Aramaic people, in Deuteronomy 3:14; Joshua 12:5; 2 Samuel 10:6....
וּ פִֽילַגְשֹׁ֖ו וּ שְׁמָ֣הּ רְאוּמָ֑ה וַ תֵּ
SACRIFICE OF ISAAC Genesis 22:1 THE sacrifice of Isaac was the supreme act of Abraham's life. The faith which had been schooled by so singular an experience and by so many minor trials was here perfe...
THE PROMISE SEALED WITH AN OATH Genesis 22:14 It was only at the last moment that the ram was shown and substituted. It is when we get to the mount of sacrifice that God's deliverance is seen. It was...
In this chapter we have the account of the seventh appearing of Jehovah to Abraham and it is that of his supreme testing and consequent bringing into fellowship with God. It must have been in many way...
And his (i) concubine, whose name [was] Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah. (i) Concubine is often used to refer to those women who were inferior to the wives....
_Concubine, or wife, secondary in privileges, love, and dignity. Though Nachor did not, perhaps imitate the faith and virtue of his brother Abraham, but mixed various superstitions with the knowledge...
Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abr...
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...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22, 23, AND 24. But on this introduction of the heir, he necessarily becomes the main subject; and chapter 22 opens with it: "It came to pass after these thin...
AND HIS CONCUBINE, WHOSE NAME [WAS] REUMAH,.... Not an harlot, but a secondary wife, who was under the proper and lawful wife, and a sort of a head servant in the family, and chiefly kept for the proc...
And his concubine, whose name [was] Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah. Ver. 24. _His concubine._] Or half-wife, as the word signifies; one that was between a servant an...
1 Abraham is tempted to offer Isaac. 3 Hee giueth proofe of his faith and obedience. 11 The Angel stayeth him. 13 Isaac is exchanged with a ramme. 14 The place is called Iehouah-ijreh. 15 Abraham...
And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah. of these children of Nahor, Buz is mentioned Jeremiah 25:23 and Job 32:2, and Maachah Deuteronomy 3:...
The Family of Nahor...
ELEVENTH SECTION _The sorrows and joys of Abraham’s domestic life. The account and genealogy of those at home. Sarah’s death. Her burial-place at Hebron; the seed of the future inheritance of Canaan....
THE TRIAL OF ABRAHAM'S FAITH The time comes when God gives to Abraham one of the most sever trials of faith possible. When He calls his name, Abraham is fully alert and responsive, "Here I am." Surely...
20-24 This chapter ends with some account of Nahor's family, who had settled at Haran. This seems to be given for the connexion which it had with the church of God. From thence Isaac and Jacob took w...
A CONCUBINE was an inferior kind of wife, taken according to the common practice of those times, subject to the authority of the principal wife, and whose children had no right of inheritance, but wer...
and brought us nigh, and the Advocate which keeps us nigh. Sin has been for ever obliterated from that platform on which God and the worshipper stand in hallowed fellowship. What was it which constitu...
Genesis 22:24 concubine H6370 name H8034 Reumah H7208 bore H3205 (H8799) Tebah H2875 Gaham H1514 Thahash H8477 Maa
THE SONS OF NAHOR AND THE FAMILY CONNECTION OF REBEKAH (GENESIS 22:20). The incident at Mount Moriah was the climax of Abraham's life. All that remains is the closing down of his life. The stress in G...
CONTENTS: Offering of Isaac. Abrahamic covenant again confirmed. CHARACTERS: God, Abraham, Isaac, angel. CONCLUSION: The man of faith must keep his eye on God, looking not at circumstances, nor pond...
Genesis 22:1. _God did tempt Abraham,_ who had now attained the height of all his earthly joys; and seen in Isaac the long-suspended promises fulfilled. He saw nature aided by divine power in his birt...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 22:24 CONCUBINE. See note on 25:5–6. ⇐...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 22:20 AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THESE THINGS (probably not long after his return to Beersheba), THAT IT WAS TOLD (by some unknown messenger or accidental traveler from Mesopotamia)...
Now it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham (Genesis 22:1), Or tested Abraham or proved Abraham. "Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted of God: because God neve...
concubine. Genesis 16:3 Genesis 25:6 Proverbs 15:25 Maachah....
WHERE IS THE LAMB? Genesis 22:7 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The query in Genesis 22:7, which was asked by Isaac, was most natural. He was on his way with his father to the place of sacrifice, he was carrying...