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Genesis 25:5

And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. Isaac was the recognized legal heir, who also received the stock of the herds and the essential parts of Abraham's possessions. He was, moreover, the bearer of the Messianic blessing.

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See also Genesis 25:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 25:5. _GAVE ALL THAT HE HAD UNTO ISAAC._] His principal flocks, and especially his right to the land of Canaan, including a confirmation to him and his posterity of whatever was containe...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - 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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM AND KETURAN. The section belongs apparently to a late stratum of J. The obvious meaning is that Abraham married again and had six children after Sarah's death. This is remar...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And Abraham … Isaac_ See Genesis 24:36. This disposition of his property seems to have been made some time before his death; and was intended to prevent disputes amongst the members of his family....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Abraham's Descendants by Keturah This section is from J. The children by a concubine represent tribal relationship of a secondary and less intimate character. The domestic tradition in these verses...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 24 ABRAM JUSTIFIED BY FAITH Genesis 25:5. _And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said unto him, So s...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    (2) _Abraham's Final Disposition of His Property_ (Genesis 25:5-6). 5 _And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. 6 But unto the sons of the concubines, that Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts; and he...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND ABRAHAM GAVE ALL THAT HE HAD UNTO ISAAC_ _ AND ABRAHAM GAVE ALL THAT HE HAD UNTO ISAAC._ Gave unto Isaac ... unto the sons of the concubines. While the chief part of the inheritance went to Isaa...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יִּתֵּ֧ן אַבְרָהָ֛ם אֶת ־כָּל ־אֲשֶׁר ־לֹ֖

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim. And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the chil...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND ABRAHAM GAVE ALL THAT HE HAD UNTO ISAAC. By his last will and testament; not all out of his own hand, while he lived, at least he reserved somewhat for himself, and for gifts to his other children...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. Ver. 5. _Abraham gave all, &c._] So Isaiah 19:25, Assyria is the work of God's hand, and Israel his inheritance....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac_ As he was bound to do, not only in justice to Sarah his first wife, but also to Rebekah, who married Isaac upon the assurance of it....

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Which before he purposed and promised to give, GENESIS 24:36, and now actually gave; except that which is excepted in GENESIS 25:6, and except the use and enjoyment of his estate during his own life....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 25:5 Abraham H85 gave H5414 (H8799) Isaac H3327 Genesis 21:10-12, Genesis

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 25:5 These verses highlight Isaac’s position as Abraham’s main heir. “Concubines” probably refers to Hagar and Keturah, both of whom bore Abraham children. Neither woman shared...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    A.M. cir. 2175. B.C. cir. 1829. Genesis 21:10 Genesis 24:36 Psalms 68:18 Matthew 11:27...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac — As he was bound to do in justice to Sarah his first wife, and to Rebekah who married Isaac upon the assurance of it....

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