Genesis 25:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

GENESIS CHAPTER 25 Abraham's sons by Keturah, Genesis 25:1-4. Isaac inherits his father's estate, Genesis 25:5. Provision for the other sons, Genesis 25:6. Abraham's age, Genesis 25:7; death, Genesis 25:8; burial, Genesis 25:9,10. God blesseth Isaac, Genesis 25:11. The posterity of Ishmael, Genesis 25:12-15. His age and death, Genesis 25:17. Their habitation, Genesis 25:18. The generations of Isaac, Genesis 25:19. His age when married, Genesis 25:20. He prays for children; God answers, Genesis 25:21. Two children struggle in the womb; Rebekah inquires of the Lord, Genesis 25:22. God gives the reason, Genesis 25:23. She delivered of twins, Genesis 25:24. The first-born red and hairy; his name, Genesis 25:25. His brother takes him by the heel; his name: Isaac's age when they were born, Genesis 25:26. The eldest a cunning hunter; the other a plain man, Genesis 25:27. Isaac loves the eldest; Rebekah the youngest, Genesis 25:28. The eldest sells his birth right for red pottage, and is called Edom, Genesis 25:30-32. Confirms the sale by an oath, Genesis 25:33. Despising his birthright, Genesis 25:34. After Sarah's death and Isaac's marriage Abraham took a wife, (a secondary wife, or a concubine, as she is called, Genesis 25:6, and 1 Chronicles 1:32), not from any inordinate lust, which his age and eminent grace may sufficiently evince, but from a desire of more children, and of accomplishing God's promise concerning the great multiplication of his seed. Keturah was a distinct person from Hagar, as appears from Genesis 25:6, and Genesis 25:12, and, as it seems, of better quality, and younger, for Hagar was now eighty years old, and not likely to be a mother of six children.