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Setting the Stage for Isaac
Commentators explain that this list of Nahor's family is not a random detail. It is strategically included to set the stage for the next major event in the patriarchal story: finding a wife for Isaac from among Abraham's relatives, which connects directly to Rebekah, mentioned in the previous verse.
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Albert Barnes
On Genesis 22:1–24
18th Century
Theologian
2. מריה morı̂yâh — “Moriah”; Samaritan: מוראה môr'âh; Septuagint, ὑψηλή hupsēlē — Onkelos, “w…
Charles Ellicott
On Genesis 22:24
19th Century
Bishop
Maachah. —This name appears as that of a small Aramaic people, in Deuteronomy 3:14; Joshua 12:5; [Reference 2 Samuel 10…
John Gill
On Genesis 22:24
17th Century
Pastor
And his concubine, whose name [was] Reumah
Not an harlot, but a secondary wife, who was under the proper and lawful …
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Matthew Henry
On Genesis 22:20–24
17th Century
Minister
This chapter ends with some account of Nahor's family, who had settled at Haran. This seems to be given for the connection which it had with the ch…