Genesis 24:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

Genesis 24:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Galatians 3:9
So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
Psalms 112:1-3
Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments. …
Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Matthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Genesis 13:2
And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

Three things we may observe here concerning Abraham:— I. The care he took of a good son, to get him married, well married. It was high time to think of it now, for Isaac was about forty years old, and it had been customary with his ancestors to marry at thirty, or sooner, Gen. 11:14, 18, 22, 24. Abraham believed the promise of the building up of his family, and therefore did not make haste; not mo…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Ge 24:1-9. A Marriage Commission. 1. And Abraham was old ... take a wife--His anxiety to see his son married was natural to his position as a pastoral chief interested in preserving the honor of his tribe, and still more as a patriarch who had regard to the divine promise of a numerous posterity.