24And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
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The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.
And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.
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.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-24)This is recorded here, 1. To show that though Abraham saw his own family highly dignified with peculiar privileges, admitted into covenant, and blessed with the entail of the promise, yet he did not look with contempt and disdain upon his relations, but was glad to hear of the increase and prosperity of their families. 2. To make way for the following story of the marriage of Isaac to Rebekah, a d…
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