Genesis 24:1

Isaac and Rebekah

1 Now Abraham [was] old, {advanced in age}, and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in everything.

Genesis 24:1 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 24:1

And Abraham was old, [and] well stricken in age
Being now one hundred and forty years of age, for as he was an hundred years old when Isaac was born, and Isaac was forty years of age when he married Rebekah, which was at this time, Abraham must be of the age mentioned, see ( Genesis 21:5 ) ( 25:20 ) ; and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things;
with all kind of blessings, with temporal and spiritual blessings; the former seems chiefly designed here, because of what follows; God had blessed him, as Aben Ezra observes, with long life, and riches, and honour, and children, things desirable by men.

Genesis 24:1 In-Context

1 Now Abraham [was] old, {advanced in age}, and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in everything.

2 And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his house, who had charge of all he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh

3 that I may make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose midst I am dwelling,

4 but that you will go to my land and to my family, and take a wife for my son, for Isaac."

5 And the servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman will not be willing {to follow} me to this land--must I then return your son to the land from whence you came?"

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "going in the days"