Introduction
ISAAC’S MARRIAGE, Genesis 24:1-67.
After the death of Sarah, the house of Abraham was left in gloom. He appears to have removed again into the south country, and was now probably dwelling near Beer-sheba. See on Genesis 24:62. Two years or more elapsed, and then the growing age of Abraham, and the loneliness of his home, prompted him to seek for his son Isaac a wife, that Sarah’s vacant tent might again be filled, and both he and Isaac comforted. See Genesis 24:67. Besides the inimitable beauty of this narrative, the attentive reader should note the following things: 1) The authority of parents and the elder brother in negotiating marriages. 2) The chief servant is the go-between, or mediator and manager, of such affairs for a princely family. 3) Marriage of cousins, or blood-kindred, rather than strangers. 4) Careful consideration of religious affinity and its influence on the posterity. 5) The marriage union cemented by mutual love.
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