Genesis 25:1-26:35 NIV

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 25:1-34

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 death of Sarah, and then received the name of Keturah. It was anciently a frequent custom for persons on being favoured with signal blessings to assume a new name, or to receive some addition to the old. Genesis 25:2. She bare him Zimran, and five others, to whom Abraham gave gifts, and... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 25:1-7

Genesis 25:1-7These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life:--The last years of AbrahamI.ON THEIR NATURAL SIDE. Active to the last. II. ON THEIR SPIRITUAL SIDE. He provided for the purity and peace of the chosen family, by sending away the sons of his concubines. He did this (1) to prevent confusion of race, (2) to avoid disturbance and quarrels. (T. H. Leale.)Life and character of AbrahamI. THE FIRST PERIOD. I. ABRAHAM COMES BEFORE US AS AN EMIGRANT. II. ABRAHAM COMES BEFORE US AS A... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 25:1

Gen 25:1 Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name [was] Keturah. Ver. 1. Then again Abraham, &c. ] After Sarah’s death, though Calvin thinks otherwise. His body, dry and dead forty years before, is now, by God’s blessing, made lively and lusty. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 25:1

am cir, 2151, bc cir, 1853, Genesis 23:1, Genesis 23:2, Genesis 28:1, 1 Chronicles 1:32, 1 Chronicles 1:33 Reciprocal: Genesis 13:16 - General Genesis 17:4 - a father Genesis 25:6 - concubines Genesis 30:4 - to wife Genesis 37:25 - Ishmeelites Genesis 37:36 - the Midianites Numbers 31:2 - the Midianites Habakkuk 3:7 - Midian Romans 4:17 - I have read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Genesis 25:1

Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.Five and thirty years Abraham lived after the marriage of Isaac, and all that is recorded concerning him during that time lies here in a very few verses: we hear no more of God's extraordinary appearances to him, or trials of him; for all the days even of the greatest saints are not eminent days, some slide on silently, and neither come nor go with observation: such were these last days of Abraham. We have here an account of his children... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 25:1

ABRAHAM’S SONS BY KETURAH, Genesis 25:1-6. 1. Then Rather and, for here is no note of time . When Abraham took Keturah for a wife we have no means of knowing, but it is generally supposed to have been after Sarah’s death . This the order of the narrative would most naturally imply . But such order, and especially the record of genealogies, is no sure index of time, and, for aught that appears, Abraham may have taken Keturah, who is called his concubine in 1 Chronicles 1:32, as he... read more