Verse 6
6. The concubines Hagar and Keturah .
Sent them away Some have objected that Keturah’s sons, if born after Sarah’s death, were too young to be thus sent away . But Ishmael was only a lad of fifteen or seventeen years when sent away with his mother into the wilderness of Beer-sheba .
Genesis 21:14. But the time of bestowing these gifts on the sons of his concubines, and sending them away, is uncertain . The different facts stated in Genesis 25:5-6 may have occurred at very different dates .
From Isaac Abraham would not have his son and heir troubled by claims or disputes after his death, so he was careful to see that all disposition of his possessions, and of the sons of his concubines, was made while he yet lived. A wise example to fathers who have large estates, and many possible claimants.
Unto the east country And they became known thereafter as the Easterns, or Bene-Kedem, sons of the East. See Judges 6:3; 1 Kings 4:30; Job 1:3; Isaiah 11:14.
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