Now, we come down to verse 5, "...and
Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac,"
and notice that, "...but unto the sons of
the concubines which Abraham had.
Abraham gave gifts and sent them away from
Isaac his son, while he yet lived eastward
unto the east country.
And these are the days of the years
of Abraham's life, which he lived a hundred,
threescore, and fifteen years.
Then Abraham gave up the ghost, died in
a good old age, an old man and
full of years, and was gathered to his
people."
This is interesting, "...and his sons Isaac and
Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah,
in the field of Ephron, the son of
Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre.
The field which Abraham purchased of the sons
of Heth, there was Abraham buried, and Sarah
his wife."
Now, Ishmael comes for the funeral because, after
all, Abraham is his father, and here Isaac
and Ishmael bury Abraham.
In verse 11, we follow right along now,
"...it came to pass after the death of
Abraham that God blessed his son Isaac, and
Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi."
That's where, you remember, he met Rebekah when
she came to him.
Now, we have in verse 12 down through
verse 18, "...the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son,
whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, baroned Abraham."
Now, the list of them are given here,
and I have no intention of reading this
section at all, but to call your attention
to the fact that this is the method
of the Holy Spirit, this is the handwriting
of the Spirit of God, and that is,
in the book of Genesis, the rejected line
is given first, and then set aside, not
mentioned anymore, and the line that's leading to
Christ is given.
And therefore, after we have the line of
Ishmael,