| 1 G:ron: 0, 32. # A I ah - 95 — acap_—_ from werſe | 12 T Now theſe 2 the generations of Iſhmael x A- E, and 12: and as it ſeems, of better Quality, an ounger, for ls | 20h Bl ge 2p Har was now Eighty years old, and not likely to be a Mother of brahams ſon, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarahs hand- 56: {ix Children. y maid, bare unto Abraham. s 2 And ſhe bare hime Zimran, and Jokſhan, and Me- | , . * Mere Secorn niderree of God's faickfulnelh in INny dan f, and Midian g, and Iſhbak, and Shuah h. Ty ORIG, Pane-2E 207 an 275] 2 nn ult p hb How could Airahom, being now about One hundred 74 And theſe are the IO of the ſons of Iſhmael, : 1Chron fer years old, have ſo many Children, when his Body was dead in his by their names, according ro their generations: The a oy. firſt-born of Iſhmael, Nebajcth y; and Kedar z, and * ©
hundredth year ? 4:/w. Becauſe that renewed ſtrength which was miraculouſly confer: cd upon him, did ſtill in a great meaſure re-. main in him, being not a temporary ACtion, but a durable Habir or Power. f Theſe Perſons were the Heads of ſeveral People dwel- ling in Arabia and Syria, where we ſhall find evident foorſteps.of their Names amongſt Ancient Geographers, only a little changed, which cou'd not be avoided in their Tranſlation into another Lan- guage: & The Father of thoſe Midianites, of whom we read, Gen. 3*: 35. Juds: 6: 2: 1Js: 10: 26. kh From whom Bilaad ſeems to be
deſcended, 'Jov 2. 11. 2» * And Jokthan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And
p4 . , l * 1Chron. the ſons of Dedan were A\burim, and Letuſhim, and
Leummim, £ 4 And the ſons of Midian ; Ephah i, and Epher &,
and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All theſe were
the Children of Keturah. | 5 Of whom ſee 1ſa:60: 6: k From whom ſome think 4f-ica re-
ceived its name.
5 4 4ud Abraham gave / all that he had # unto
Iſaac. ; : / Which before he purpoſed and promiſed to give, Gen. 24. 36.
And now adtually gave. m# Except that which 1s excepted in the foiloxing Verſe, and except the uſe and enjoyment of his Eſtate
dwing his own Lite. ; 5 1ur uriro the ſons of the concubines » which Abra-
ham had, Abraham gave gifts, and fent them away from ilaae his fon «( while he yet lived ) caftward,un- to the ealt countrey Pp.
» Hagar and Keturzh. Concubines are ſometimes calleJ Wives, as Gen: 16: 3: judgeilg 1, 2, 3, 29- bur their Children had no right to the Inheritance {or tho the Childien of Jacob's Concubines did e- qually partake of the Inheritance with the other Children, that was done by Divine Appointment,and Jacob's Vojuntary Att, and upon ſpecial reaſon, b2cauie of the vat Inheritance promiſed, and atter- wards given to them,which made it no loſs,bur a great convenience and advantage tuthe Children of the chief Wives to have their Halt- brethren, the Sons of the Concubines, ſeated ſo near to them. o Partly that 'the entire Poſſeſſion of that Land might be reſerved to the Children of 1ſaac ; and pou y, leſt nearneſs of relation joyned with Cohabication or Neigh ourhood ſhould beget a great familia- rity »etween them, whereby 1/aac's Seedwere likely to be infe&ed by their Brethren, whoſe Degeneration and A poltacy Avrabam might eilily foreſee from the evil Inclinations of their on Hearts, and Go.'s £xcluſion of them from that Covenant of Grace a:d Life, which was the only effe&ual Remedy againſt thar powerful and uni- ve: ſal Corruption. p Into Arabia, and other Part- of 4ſia the Great- er, which were ſcituate Eaſt-ward from the Southern part of Cana- an where Abraham now was, whence theſe People are oft called the Children of the Eaſt, as Judges 6: 3: and 7:12: Job 1: 3.
7 And thele a:e the days of the years of Abrahams life which he lived, an hundred threeſcore and fifteen
years, | 8 Then Abraham gave up the ghoſt 9, and died in a
—_——_
Adbeel, and Mibſam,.
y Of whom ſce 1aizh6o: 7. From whom part of Arabia was called Navathea. z Of whom ſee Pjalm 120: 5: Iſaiah 21: 16: Jer: 49: 28: the Father of thoſe called Cedrei, or C:dareni in 4rabin.
14 And Miſhma, and Dumah a, and Maiſa,
a From him Dumah, Iſaiah 21: 11: or Dumatha, a place in Arabia, ſeems to have received its Name. Others make him the Father of the Idumeans.
15 + Hadar, and Tema 5, Jetur c, Naphiſh, and,,. _ Kedemah. y : J . P TON Ha=
b He gave his Name to the City and Covntry bf Tema, or Teman, ,
Job 2. 11. and. 19. Jer. 25. 23. c The Father of the [ureans, as ,
may be gathered from 1 Chron. 5. 19. | 16 'Thele are the ſons of Itbmael, and theſe ave their
Chron. 39.
names, by their towns, and by their caſtles* ; twelve *Chap. 17. 20,
princes according to their nations.
17 And theſe are the years of the life of Iſhmael, an :undred andthirty and ſever years ; and he gave upthe ghoſt, and died, and was gathered unto his people.
18 And they dwelt from Havilah unto Shur, that is before Fgypt, as thou goeſt towards Aſlyria F : and ae * died in the preſence of all his brethren d.
*H &b fell.
T (z. e.) On that part or ſide of Egypt which leans to 4ſjria. d 2 Sam. 21.
1s Brethren ſurviving him,and being his Neighbours,and therefore g,
's they had Converſation with him in the time of his Life, ſo now chey did him Honour at his Death. But this Tranſlation and Inter- pretation may ſeem improbable. 1. Becaule his Death was related, verſe 17, and would not be ſo preſently repeated. 2. Becauſe the . foregoing wo:'ds in this Verſe ſpeak not of his Death, bur of his
Iwelling,to which theſe words. do very well agree. For what we '
tranſlated and he died, is commonly rendred and he fell, or it fell, and is moſt commonly uſe concerning alot whereby Mens Portions are deſigned and divic.ed, as Levit: 16: 9, 10: Numb: 33: 54: Joſ: 16; 1. and fo the ſenfe may be; it fel; i: e: that Country fellto him or his; or he lay, or was ffretched out, o1 pofted himſelf, as the Hebrew word is uſed, Juag: 7: 12. 5. e. he dwelt in rhe preſenceof all his Brethren ;. and 'o indeed his Conntry lay between the Children of Keturah on the £af, and the Children of 1/aac and {raelon the W-f.
Ii; 4 Arid theſe are the generations of Ifaat, Abra-
:ams ſon: * AbrahambegatIfaac. .
20 And Haac was forty years old when he took Re- 1.
»vekah to wite, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan-Aram e, the ſiſter to Laban the Syrian.