Genesis 25:1-11
Abraham and Keturah (1 Chronicles 1:32, 33)
1 Abraham again took a wife, and her name was Keturah. 2 And she bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. 3 Jokshan begot Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, Letushim, and Leummim. 4 And the sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.
5 And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac. 6 But Abraham gave gifts to the sons of the concubines which Abraham had; and while he was still living he sent them eastward, away from Isaac his son, to the country of the east.
Abraham’s Death and Burial
7 This is the sum of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred and seventy-five years. 8 Then Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people. 9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, 10 the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth. There Abraham was buried, and Sarah his wife. 11 And it came to pass, after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac dwelt at Beer Lahai Roi.
After Abraham had ensured that the LORD had given his son Isaac a wife and his lineage was secure as promised, he again married and had six more children, but not one of them nor even Ishmael was the son of promise as Isaac was. Only the son through Rebekah as by God’s grace was to be the line of the Messiah by faith to deliver all God’s children from out of every nation with the line of Israel being the chosen channel of salvation to all those He calls throughout time. Abraham did give gifts to the other children but the inheritance was to Isaac alone, and he sent them away from Isaac to the East for peace. This is seen in the descendants of Ishmael as well who fathered a great nation but the promise to Abraham according to faith was to and through the one son Isaac as a picture of God’s one and only Son who would come through his physical lineage since Adam and joined to God own nature by His Spirit (Luke 1:35) so Jesus Christ was born both God and man. After living to a full old age of one hundred and seventy-five years, Abraham was joined with the LORD in death as he awaited the promise of the resurrection to come (Hebrews 11:8, 10, 13) as did the other Old Testament believers of faith in the coming Messiah. After living to this “good old age,” Abraham was buried by Sarah in the cave he had bought long before as a foothold of ownership in the promised land. Isaac was then blessed by God afterwards as he continued the lineage towards the day when it was right for God’s Son to come (Galatians 4:4-6). We now share in that inheritance of faith by the gospel as of our spiritual father (Galatians 3:9) Abraham. All is as God had planned and promised to us and them.
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