Genesis 25:1-26

The Death of Abraham

1 Abraham had taken another wife, whose name was Keturah.
2 She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah.
3 Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan; the descendants of Dedan were the Ashurites, the Letushites and the Leummites.
4 The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanok, Abida and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.
5 Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac.
6 But while he was still living, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
7 Abraham lived a hundred and seventy-five years.
8 Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and full of years; and he was gathered to his people.
9 His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite,
10 the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites.[a] There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah.
11 After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who then lived near Beer Lahai Roi.

Ishmael’s Sons

12 This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Sarah’s slave, Hagar the Egyptian, bore to Abraham.
13 These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, listed in the order of their birth: Nebaioth the firstborn of Ishmael, Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,
15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah.
16 These were the sons of Ishmael, and these are the names of the twelve tribal rulers according to their settlements and camps.
17 Ishmael lived a hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed his last and died, and he was gathered to his people.
18 His descendants settled in the area from Havilah to Shur, near the eastern border of Egypt, as you go toward Ashur. And they lived in hostility toward[b] all the tribes related to them.

Jacob and Esau

19 This is the account of the family line of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,
20 and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram[c] and sister of Laban the Aramean.
21 Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
22 The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the LORD.
23 The LORD said to her, “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
24 When the time came for her to give birth, there were twin boys in her womb.
25 The first to come out was red, and his whole body was like a hairy garment; so they named him Esau.[d]
26 After this, his brother came out, with his hand grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob.[e] Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them.

Genesis 25:1-26 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 25

This chapter contains an account of Abraham's marriage with another woman, and of the children he had by her and of their posterity Ge 25:1-4; of Abraham's disposal of his substance; and his sons, Ge 25:5,6; of the years of his life, his death and burial, Ge 25:7-11; of the children of Ishmael, and of the years of his life, and of his death, Ge 25:12-18; and of the sons of Isaac the fruit of prayer, and of the oracle concerning them before they were born, and of their temper and disposition, conduct and behaviour, Ge 25:19-34.

Cross References 56

  • 1. Jeremiah 25:25
  • 2. Genesis 36:35; Genesis 37:28,36; Exodus 2:15; Numbers 22:4; Numbers 25:6,18; Numbers 31:2; Joshua 13:21; Judges 6:1,3; Judges 7:1; Judges 8:1,22,24; Judges 9:17; 1 Kings 11:18; Psalms 83:9; Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 10:26; Isaiah 60:6; Habakkuk 3:7
  • 3. Job 2:11; Job 8:1; 1 Chronicles 1:32,33
  • 4. S Genesis 10:7
  • 5. S Genesis 10:7
  • 6. Isaiah 60:6
  • 7. S Genesis 24:36
  • 8. S Genesis 22:24
  • 9. S Genesis 21:10,14
  • 10. Genesis 29:1; Judges 6:3,33; 1 Kings 4:30; Job 1:3; Ezekiel 25:4
  • 11. ver 26; Genesis 12:4; Genesis 35:28; Genesis 47:9,28; Genesis 50:22,26; Job 42:16
  • 12. S Genesis 15:15
  • 13. ver 17; Genesis 35:29; Genesis 49:29,33; Numbers 20:24; Numbers 31:2; Deuteronomy 31:14; Deuteronomy 32:50; Deuteronomy 34:5
  • 14. Genesis 35:29; Genesis 47:30; Genesis 49:31
  • 15. S Genesis 23:9
  • 16. S Genesis 13:18
  • 17. Genesis 23:8
  • 18. Genesis 49:29; Genesis 50:13
  • 19. S Genesis 10:15; Genesis 23:16
  • 20. S Genesis 12:2
  • 21. S Genesis 16:14
  • 22. S Genesis 2:4
  • 23. S Genesis 16:1
  • 24. S Genesis 17:20; Genesis 21:18; Genesis 16:15
  • 25. Genesis 28:9; Genesis 36:3
  • 26. Psalms 120:5; Song of Songs 1:5; Isaiah 21:16; Isaiah 42:11; Isaiah 60:7; Jeremiah 2:10; Jeremiah 49:28; Ezekiel 27:21
  • 27. Joshua 15:52; Isaiah 21:11; Obadiah 1:1
  • 28. Job 6:19; Isaiah 21:14; Jeremiah 25:23
  • 29. 1 Chronicles 5:19
  • 30. Genesis 17:20
  • 31. S Genesis 13:16; Psalms 83:6
  • 32. S ver 8
  • 33. S Genesis 17:20; Genesis 21:18
  • 34. S Genesis 16:7
  • 35. Genesis 16:12
  • 36. S Genesis 2:4
  • 37. ver 26; Genesis 26:34; Genesis 35:28
  • 38. S Genesis 24:67
  • 39. S Genesis 22:22
  • 40. Ge 28:2,5,6; Genesis 30:20; Genesis 31:18; Genesis 33:18; Genesis 35:9,26; Genesis 46:15; Genesis 48:7
  • 41. S Genesis 24:29
  • 42. Genesis 31:20,24; Deuteronomy 26:5
  • 43. S Genesis 11:30
  • 44. Genesis 30:17,22; 1 Samuel 1:17,23; 1 Chronicles 5:20; 2 Chronicles 33:13; Ezra 8:23; Psalms 127:3; Romans 9:10
  • 45. Exodus 18:15; Exodus 28:30; Exodus 33:7; Leviticus 24:12; Numbers 9:6-8; Numbers 27:5,21; Deuteronomy 17:9; Judges 18:5; 1 Samuel 9:9; 1 Samuel 10:22; 1 Samuel 14:36; 1 Samuel 22:10; 1 Kings 22:8; 2 Kings 3:11; 2 Kings 22:13; Isaiah 30:2; Jeremiah 21:2; Jeremiah 37:7,17; Ezekiel 14:7; Ezekiel 20:1,3
  • 46. S Genesis 17:4
  • 47. S Genesis 9:25; Genesis 48:14,19; Genesis 27:29,40; Malachi 1:3; Romans 9:11-12*
  • 48. Luke 1:57; Luke 2:6
  • 49. Genesis 38:27
  • 50. 1 Samuel 16:12
  • 51. Genesis 27:11
  • 52. Genesis 27:1,15
  • 53. Genesis 38:29
  • 54. Hosea 12:3
  • 55. Genesis 27:36; Genesis 32:27; Deuteronomy 23:7; Joshua 24:4; Obadiah 1:10,12
  • 56. S ver 7,S 20

Footnotes 5

  • [a]. Or "the descendants of Heth"
  • [b]. Or "lived to the east of"
  • [c]. That is, Northwest Mesopotamia
  • [d]. "Esau" may mean "hairy" .
  • [e]. "Jacob" means "he grasps the heel" , a Hebrew idiom for "he deceives" .
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