Poole on 1 Chronicles 1:32, 33: The Sons of Keturah
- Dr. Dilday
- Apr 25, 2022
- 1 min read
[circa 1853] Verse 32:[1] Now (Gen. 25:1, 2) 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.
[Of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine] She was not a mistress (Lapide), but a secondary wife (Lapide, Menochius, Tirinus). In Genesis 25:1, she is called a wife. Concerning a concubine, see Genesis 35:22 (Vatablus).
Verse 33:[2] And the sons of Midian; Ephah, and Epher, and Henoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Keturah.
[The sons of Midian; Ephah] From whom was that city Midian, and Ephah near to it; concerning which see Isaiah 60:6 (Bochart’s A Sacred Catalogue of Animals 1:2:3:81).
Matthew Poole's Synopsis on Genesis 25:1-4: '[c. 1853 BC] Verse 1:[1] Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.
[He took a wife] Not moved by lust, but by the love of offspring (Lyra), and by divine inspiration, so that his seed might be multiplied among the Gentiles also; with Sarah dead and Hagar dismissed, perhaps also deceased (Menochius).
[Keturah] It appears that she was a maidservant of Abraham: For if she had been free-born, she would not have been called a concubine (Menochius). Many of the Hebrews think that she was Hagar (Munster, thus Targum Jerusalem). But they err. For, 1. he took Hagar long before (Estius). 2. This soon follows in verse 6, th…
Matthew Henry on Genesis 25: 'Abraham lived, after the marriage of Isaac, thirty-five years, and all that is recorded concerning him during the time lies here in a very few verses. We hear no more of God's extraordinary appearances to him or trials of him; for all the days, even of the best and greatest saints, are not eminent days, some slide on silently, and neither come nor go with observation; such were these last days of Abraham. We have here...
An account of his children by Keturah, another wife whom he married after the death of Sarah. He had buried Sarah and married Isaac, the two dear companions of his life, and was now solitary. He wanted a nurse,…
Matthew Henry: 'We shall have little to say of the Midianites, who descended from Abraham's children by Keturah. They were children of the east (probably Job was one of them), and were separated from Isaac, the heir of the promise (Genesis 25:6), and therefore they are only named here, 1 Chronicles 1:32. The sons of Jokshan, the son of Keturah, are named also, and the sons of Midian (1 Chronicles 1:32-33), who became most eminent, and perhaps gave denomination to all these families, as Judah to the Jews.'
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