The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah. Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.
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Adam, Seth, Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah. The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim. The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan. The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabta, Raama, Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan. Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth. Mizraim became the father of Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim, Pathrusim, Casluhim (where the Philistines came from), and Caphtorim. Canaan became the father of Sidon his firstborn, Heth, the Jebusite, and the Amorite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite, the Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite. The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech. Arpachshad became the father of Shelah, and Shelah became the father of Eber. To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan. Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Ebal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan. Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah, Eber, Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor, Terah, Abram (also called Abraham). The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael. These are their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam, Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael. The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan. The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah. Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel. The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zephi, Gatam, Kenaz, Timna, and Amalek. The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. The sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and Timna was Lotan’s sister. The sons of Shobal: Alian, Manahath, Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. The sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. The son of Anah: Dishon. The sons of Dishon: Hamran, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Jaakan. The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.
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The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
The sons of Midian: Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.
Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.
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Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.
And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.
And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac; Esau and Israel.
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And the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine: she bore Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba, and Dedan.
And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.
And Abraham begot Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.
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- Genesis 25:1-4 (v32) Abraham took another wife, and her name was Keturah. She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. Jokshan became the…
- Genesis 32:28 (v34) He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
- Genesis 21:2-3 (v34) Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. Abraham called his son who was born…
- Matthew 1:2 (v34) Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.
- Luke 3:34 (v34) the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,
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- Acts 7:8 (v34) He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the…
- Isaiah 60:6 (vv32–33) A multitude of camels will cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah. All from Sheba will come. They will bring gold and frankincense,…
- Genesis 25:24-28 (v34) When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb. The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment.…
- Genesis 37:28 (v32) Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty…
- Exodus 2:15-16 (v32) Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian, and…
- Numbers 22:4-7 (v32) Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this multitude will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.”…
- Numbers 25:6 (v32) Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the…
- Numbers 31:2 (v32) “Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”
- Judges 6:1-6 (v32) The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, so Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. The hand of…
- 1 Kings 10:1 (v32) When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning Yahweh’s name, she came to test him with hard questions.
- 1 Chronicles 1:28 (v34) The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.
- Job 6:19 (v32) The caravans of Tema looked. The companies of Sheba waited for them.
- Psalms 72:10 (v32) The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
- Psalms 72:15 (v32) They shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba. Men shall pray for him continually. They shall bless him all day long.
- Isaiah 21:13 (v32) The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia you will lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.
- Jeremiah 25:23 (v32) Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off;
- Jeremiah 49:8 (v32) Flee! Turn back! Dwell in the depths, inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau on him when I visit him.
- Ezekiel 25:13 (v32) therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “I will stretch out my hand on Edom, and will cut off man and animal from it; and I will make it desolate…
- Ezekiel 27:20 (v32) “ ‘ “Dedan was your trafficker in precious cloths for riding.
- Malachi 1:2-4 (v34) “I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved Jacob; but…
- Romans 9:10-13 (v34) Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac. For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v32 Read Gen. 25:4.
Read Gen. 25:4.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On v32 Verse 32. Keturah, Abraham's concubine] Abraham's pilegesh, or wife…
Verse 32. Keturah, Abraham's concubine] Abraham's pilegesh, or wife of the second rank; she was neither whore, harlot, nor concubine, in our sense of these words.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On v32 Keturah, Abraham’s concubine - This passage, and Gen 25:6,…
Keturah, Abraham’s concubine - This passage, and Gen 25:6, sufficiently prove that the position of Keturah was not that of the full wife, but of the “secondary” or “concubine wife” Jdg 19:1 so common among Orientals.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v32 Concubine. She was his lawful wife, but of an…
Concubine. She was his lawful wife, but of an inferior degree, and such were called concubines. (Challoner) --- She has the title of wife, Genesis xxv. 1. --- And the sons of Dadan, &c., seems to be copied from Genesis, as the addition is not found in many Latin manuscripts, no more than in the Hebrew or Septuagint. (Calmet)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On v32 SONS OF KETURAH. (Ch1 1:32-33)
SONS OF KETURAH. (Ch1 1:32-33)
sons of Keturah--These became founders of nomadic tribes in the north of Arabia and Syria, as Midian of the Midianites (Gen 36:35; Jdg 6:2).
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and Shuah--from whom Bildad sprang (Job 2:11).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv32–34 32. Medan, Midian] Kindred tribes often bore names only…
32. Medan, Midian] Kindred tribes often bore names only slightly differing in form.
Midian] In Jdg_8:24 the Midianites are reckoned as Ishmaelites.
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Sheba and Dedan] The same two names occur in 1Ch_1:9 among the descendants of Ham. See note there.
32, 33. The Descent of Arabian Tribes from Abraham through Keturah (= Gen_25:1-4)
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv32–34 (32) The sons of Keturah.—An extract from Gen_25:1-4.
(32) The sons of Keturah.—An extract from Gen_25:1-4.
Medan is very likely a mere repetition of Midian, due to a mistake of some ancient copyist. Gen_25:3 adds, “And the sons of Dedan were Asshuriin, and Letushim, and Leummim;” which is, perhaps, an interpolation, as the three names are of a different form from the others in the section; and the chronicler would hardly have omitted them had he found them in his text.
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Midian.—The most important of these tribes. The Midianites dwelt, or rather wandered, in the peninsula of Sinai.
Sheba, and Dedan.—See 1Ch_1:9, where these names appear as sons of Cush. The names may have been common to different tribes settled in different regions. Sheba (Assyr. Saba’â’a) Massa, Tema, and Adbeel, are described by Tiglath-pileser as lying “on the border of the sunset lands”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv32, 34 Vers. 32, 33, contain the list of Abraham"s sons…
Vers. 32, 33, contain the list of Abraham"s sons by Keturah, here called one of his concubines; but in Genesis, "a wife," and apparently not taken by Abraham till after Sarah"s death. (Gen_25:1-4) The sons are six; the grandsons, two by the son placed second in order, and five by the son placed fourth in order; in all thirteen names. But the passage in Genesis gives also three great-grandsons, through the second grandson. All the thirteen are in the Authorized Version identical in the two places and in the Hebrew text; but in the Septuagint slight differences occur, as Zembram, Iexan, Madam, Sobak, Soe, Daidan, Sabai, Opher, Abida, and Eldada here, for Zombran, Iezan, Madal, Iesbok, Soie, Dedan, Saba, Apheir, Abeida, and Eldaga there. It is carefully stated in Gen_25:5, Gen_25:6, after the enumeration of Keturah"s children, and in spite of her having been called "wife" in the first verse, that "Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac. But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his sou, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country."
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Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain On v32 The Descendants of Esau and the Dukes of Edom
The Descendants of Esau and the Dukes of Edom
v. 32. Now, the sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine, the half-brothers of Ishmael; she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah, these being the founders of nomadic tribes in the northern part of Arabia and in Syria. Cf Gen 25:1-2; Gen 36:35; Job 2:11. And the sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
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v. 33. And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Renoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sons, the descendants, of Keturah.
v. 34. And Abraham begat Isaac, this verse continuing the enumeration of 1Ch 1:28. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.
v. 35. The sons of Esau, who forfeited his birthright and was not the bearer of the Messianic promise: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah. Cf Gen 36:9-14.
v. 36. The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, and Omar, Zephi, and Gatam, Kenaz, and Timna, and Amalek.
v. 37. The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
v. 38. And the sons of Seir: Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah, and Dishon, and Ezar, and Dishan.
v. 39. And the sons of Lotan: Rori, and Roman (or Heman); and Timna was Lotan’s sister.
v. 40. The sons of Shobal: Alian (or Alvan), and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah.
v. 41. The sons of Anah: Dishon. And the sons of Dishon: Amram (or Hemdan), and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.
v. 42. The sons of Ezer: Bilhan, and Zavail, and Jakan (or Akan). The sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran. Cf Gen 36:20-28. These men were founders of nomadic tribes occupying the country between the Red Sea and the Euphrates, some of the mightiest ones being found near the boundary of Chaldea.
v. 43. Now, these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel: Bela, the son of Beor; and the name of his city was Dinhabah. This has been identified with O’Daeb, a well known town in the center of Al Dahna, a great northern desert in the direction of Chaldea and the Euphrates.
v. 44. And when Bela was dead, Jobab, the son of Zerah, of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
v. 45. And when Jobab was dead, Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead.
v. 46. And when Husham was dead, Hadad, the son of Bedad, which smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Avith.
v. 47. And when Hadad was dead, Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.
v. 48. And when Samlah was dead, Shaul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead.
v. 49. And when Shaul was dead, Baal-hanan, the son of Acabor, reigned in his stead.
v. 50. And when Baal-hanan was dead, Hadad (or Hadar) reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Pai; and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. It appears from this that the country had no definite capital at this time, and that the royal power was not hereditary. Probably the ruler was elected from the total number of princes or most influential sheiks.
v. 51. Hadad died also, and after his death the office of king seems to have been abolished. And the dukes of Edom were: Duke Timnah, Duke Aliah, Duke Jetheth,
v. 52. Duke Aholibamah, Duke Elah, Duke Pinon,
v. 53. Duke Kenaz, Duke Teman, Duke Mibzar,
v. 54. Duke Magdiel, Duke Iram. These are the dukes of Edom. For the entire passage compare Gen 36:31-43. This list has only geographical importance, as naming the chief Edomite principalities. It has been preserved to show how completely the Lord fulfilled His promise concerning Esau.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv32, 34 General Information:
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All of the names here except for Keturah are names of men. Keturah is the name of a woman. (See: How to Translate Names)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v34 1:34–2:2 Isaac’s genealogy first lists the descendants of Esau…
1:34–2:2 Isaac’s genealogy first lists the descendants of Esau (1:35-54) and continues with Israel. The history of Edom is given in three components: the sons of Esau (1:35-37), the descendants of Seir (1:38-42), and the kings who ruled in the land of Edom (1:43-54). This arrangement follows Gen 36.
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