Verse 1
1. A famine Abraham’s, Isaac’s, and Jacob’s history are each distinguished by a famine, that frequent plague of the East . Besides the first famine Our historian was not so obtuse, as some critics have assumed, as not to know that Abraham’s life had passages very much like Isaac’s . But he knew, what some critics seem unable to comprehend, that two men’s lives may be largely the one a repetition of the other . Thus history has often repeated itself in less than a century .
Abimelech Possibly the same Abimelech as that of Genesis 20:2. For if he had been aged forty at the time of Abraham’s visit, he would have now been about one hundred and twenty-five no very unsupposable age for that time, when men lived, as we have seen, to be one hundred and seventy-five years old. But it is altogether probable that this was the son and successor of the Abimelech of Abraham’s time, for both this name and that of Phichol (Genesis 26:26) were official titles rather than personal appellations. See notes on Genesis 20:2; Genesis 21:22.
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