Two questions about the Bible.?

Question

As an experienced reader, I seek your opinions on the following:

Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. [Gen25:1] & The sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine [1 Chronicles 1:32].
So, who exactly was Keturah?
Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, ... and offer him there for a burnt offering. [Gen22:2]
By faith Abraham when he was tried, offered up Isaac, ... his only begotten son. [Hebrews 11:17]
Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. [Genesis 25:1,2]
So, how many sons did he really have?

Answer 1

The only consistency in the buybull is its inconsistency.


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Answer 2

In the Book of Genesis, Keturah or Ketura (Hebrew: קְטוּרָה, Standard Qətura Tiberian Qəṭûrāh ; "Incense") is the woman whom Abraham marries after the death of Sarah. She bears him six sons, Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.

She is styled "Abraham's concubine" (1 Chr. 1:32). Abraham married her probably after Sarah's death (Gen. 25:1-6). He also sent the sons he had by Keturah to live in the east far from his son Isaac. Rabbinic lore (midrash) holds that Keturah is identical with Hagar.

1 Chronicles 1:32 The sons to whom Keturah, Abraham's concubine, gave birth: Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, Shuah. (Ishmael by Hagar supposing that Keturah and Hagar may not be the same person...)
and Isaac by Sarah

I think that makes 8 sons to Abraham in all.

As for only son... God promised a son through Sarah and Abraham, not just Abraham... and that indeed was there only son.

Answer 3

Well, you get points for reading the scripture before posing your question. Good.

Since you are so learned, do you remember what Sarah and Ismael's mother foreshadow in Paul's letter to Galatians?

Here we see the following:

Galatians 4:21-26 21 Tell me, YOU who want to be under law, Do YOU not hear the Law? 22 For example, it is written that Abraham acquired two sons, one by the servant girl and one by the free woman; 23 but the one by the servant girl was actually born in the manner of flesh, the other by the free woman through a promise. 24 These things stand as a symbolic drama; for these [women] mean two covenants, the one from Mount Sinai, which brings forth children for slavery, and which is Ha?gar. 25 Now this Hagar means Sinai, a mountain in Arabia, and she corresponds with the Jerusalem today, for she is in slavery with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

So, Isaac was Abraham's only-begotten son by Sarah. This was the promised son that would be the forefather of the seed, Christ Jesus! Hagar and Ismael foreshadowed todays physical Israel that has been estranged from God since they didn't accept Jesus.

The fact that Abraham remarried after Sarah's death and had many children did not affect God's promise that was to be through his only-begotten son with Sarah.

So, answer this, how many children did Sarah have? One?! Then Isaac is an only-begotten son in that marriage, right?

Ismael was born before Sarah's death and before her son Isaach was born. Why do you think Isaac was called an only-begotten son when Ismael was so much older than he and still in the family fold, when they were actually 'playing' together? because Isaac was Sarah's only son.

So, how many sons did Abraham have?
Isaac, 1
Ismael, 2
Keturah's +6 = 8

1 Chronicles 1:32 32 As for the sons of Keturah, Abraham's concubine, she gave birth to Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah.. . .

Did I forget someone?

Who was Keturah? In the scripture, it says she was a concubine of Abraham!

Answer 4

I don't know if there is any more information on Keturah than what we have here. (I suspect that she was called "concubine"--in 300 AD when Chronicles was written, about 1500 years later--it was out of respect for Sarah, not because that's what she was. I'm pretty sure Abraham considered here a wife.)

Abraham had 8 sons:

Ishmael at about age 86
Isaac at about age 100
Keturah's six after age 137

(Notice that Isaac could have been as old as 37 when the Mt. Moriah thing took place.)

Answer 5

The oldest elements of the Bible (except for interest) are the first 5 books, traditionally written through Moses round 1450BC. The very last books were written round 75 ad; this makes the Bible round 3500 years previous. The Bible has about 40 human authors (no longer all are known), all stimulated through the Holy Spirit (one actual author) 2 Peter a million:21 for prophecy not in any respect got here through the will of guy, yet holy adult men of God spoke as they were moved through the Holy Spirit. 2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is given through thought of God

Answer 6

Lots!!

He also had a child through Hagar named Ishmael who was born just a few years before Isaac.

But why is Isaac called his "only begotten son" (other translations say "only son")?

Because at the time, Isaac was his only son. Ishmael had left with Hagar sometime before and other children had not yet arrived.

Isaac was the child of promise Gen. 17:19.

god bless

Answer 7

interesting...i'll shall read those verses....