Genesis 25:11 - Exposition

And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God — Elohim; whence the preceding section is ascribed to the Elohist; but the general name of God is here employed because the statement partakes merely of the nature of an intimation that the Divine blessing descended upon Isaac by inheritance (Hengstenberg), and the particular blessing of which the historian speaks is not so much the spiritual and eternal blessings of the covenant, as the material and temporal prosperity with which Isaac, in comparison with other men, was enriched (Murphy)— blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi ( vide Genesis 16:14 ; Genesis 24:62 ).

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