Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.
Study Helps
Interpretation
The genealogy is from hence confined to the posterity of Abraham. Let us take occasion from reading these lists of names, to think of the multitudes that have gone through this world, have done their parts in it, and then quitted it.
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This thought runs through 1 Chronicles 1:32-34.
Glossary
- Jokshan Person
- Snarer, the second son of Abraham and Keturah ( Gen. 25:2 , 3; 1 Chr. 1:32 ).
- Keturah Person
- Incense, the wife of Abraham, whom he married probably after Sarah’s death ( Gen. 25:1-6 ), by whom he had six sons, whom he sent away into the east country. Her nationality is unknown.