The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

CHAP. XXV.

At what time Abraham married Keturah is uncertain: the Text hath laid it after Isaacs marriage, because it was fit that all the actions of Abraham which any whit concerned the promise, should be handled first and together, before the other which either did not at all or did it the less. But that Abraham was married to this woman, long before Isaacs marriage or Sarahs death, is probable upon these conjectures. 1. He that held it strange to have a son at an hundred years old, it is not like he would marry at an hundred and forty. 2. In chap. 24. 36. when the servant is to make the match for Isaac, he saith that Abraham had given all his estate to Isaac, which had been unnecessary to mention, had he had no more children but Ismael who was gone from his house long before.

Abrahams disposing of his sons into the East Countries or Arabia, was not upon usurpa∣tion, but upon just claim by conquest, chap. 14. All these Countries were of the Land

of Canaan, and of the promise, and therefore are circumcised ones seated in them instead of Canaanites.

When the Text hath recited these sons of Abraham and their settlement, it bringeth him and Ismael to their graves: Not that they died before the birth of Jacob, and Esau, as the Text hath laid it, for Abraham lived till they were fifteen years old, and Ismael till they were at their climacterical year of sixty three, but now hath Moses no more to say of them, and therefore he concludeth their story at once. Esau born all hairy over like a Kid, but of a reddish colour, and therefore they called him Esau, Factus, made, and perfected already, as having both his beard and pubes as soon as he was born.

In a sore year of famine in the Land, Esau selleth his birth-right for want of meat.