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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 25:6

The east country. — By this is meant Arabia and Southern Mesopotamia, where, by their superior vigour and organisation, the descendants of Abraham were able to establish their supremacy over the natives. Burckhardt tells us that the Bedaween still follow Abraham’s practice. When their children are grown up, they give each of the younger sons his share of their goods (Luke 15:12), whereupon they move to a distance, and leave the eldest brother in quiet possession of the home.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 25:6. _UNTO THE SONS OF THE CONCUBINES_] Viz., Hagar and Keturah, Abraham gave gifts. Cattle for breed, seed to sow the land, and implements for husbandry, may be what is here intended....

  • 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

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the concubines_ i.e. Hagar and Keturah; although in Genesis 16:3 Hagar is called Abraham's wife, as also is Keturah in Genesis 25:1 of this chapter. _sent them away_ The present passage belongs to J,...

  • 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

    CONCUBINES] Hagar and Keturah: see on Genesis 22:24. SENT THEM AWAY.. EASTWARD] towards Arabia, where they founded nations....

  • 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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Isaac was the son that God had promised. Isaac owned everything that had belonged to Abraham. So Isaac must be Abraham’s only son who lived in *Canaan. Therefore, Abraham sent the other sons away. Bef...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ לִ בְנֵ֤י הַ פִּֽילַגְשִׁים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לְ

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    But unto the (b) sons of the (c) concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham (d) gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country. (b) For by virtue o...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Concubines. Agar and Cetura are here called concubines, (though they were lawful wives, and in other places are so called) because they were of an inferior degree: and such in Scripture are usually ca...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country. Sweet distinction, in comparing...

  • 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 Calvin's Bible Commentary

    6._But unto the sons of the concubines_. Moses relates, that when Abraham was about to die, he formed the design of removing all cause of strife among his sons after his death, by constituting Isaac h...

  • 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

    BUT UNTO THE SONS OF THE CONCUBINES WHICH ABRAHAM HAD,.... These were Hagar and Keturah, though they are both called his wives, Genesis 16:3; yet they were concubines; so Keturah, 1 Chronicles 1:32;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country. Ver. 6. _Abraham gave gifts._]...

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

    _Abraham gave gifts_ Or portions. Abraham may be an example to us in almost every circumstance of life: we find him, with great prudence: making, in his lifetime, proper provision for his sons by his...

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    But unto the sons of the concubines which Abraham had Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac, his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country. Although neither Keturah nor even...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ABRAHAM'S SECOND MARRIAGE...

  • 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

    THE CONCUBINES, Hagar and Keturah. Concubines are sometimes called _wives, _ as GENESIS 16:3 JUDGES 19:1, but their children had no right to the inheritance. For though the children of Jacob's concubi...

  • 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 25:6 Abraham H85 gave H5414 (H8804) gifts H4979 sons H1121 concubines H6370 Abraham H85 living H2416 sent...

  • 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

    concubines. Genesis 25:1 Genesis 16:3 Genesis 30:4 Genesis 30:9 Genesis 32:22

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    He gave gifts — Or portions to the rest of his children, both to Ishmael, though at first he was sent empty away, and to his sons by Keturah. It was justice to provide for them; parents that do not th...

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