abraham married ishmael about founding a great nation, isaac after the death of sarah.
abraham married ishmael about founding a great nation, isaac after the death of sarah.
who did abraham marry after the death of sarah?
ishmael about founding a great nation, isaac
sarah died, and abraham buried her in the cave of the patriarchs (the "cave of machpelah"), near hebron which he had purchased along with the adjoining field from ephron the hittite. after the death of sarah, abraham took another wife, a concubine named keturah, by whom he had six sons: zimran, jokshan, medan, midian, ishbak, and shuah. according to the bible, reflecting the change of his name to "abraham" meaning "a father of many nations", abraham is considered to be the progenitor of many nations mentioned in the bible, among others the israelites, ishmaelites, edomites,) amalekites, kenizzites, midianites and assyrians, and through his nephew lot he was also related to the moabites and ammonites. abraham lived to see his son marry rebekah, (and to see the birth of his twin grandsons jacob and esau). he died at age 175, and was buried in the cave of machpelah by his sons isaac and ishmael.
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a midrash deduced from the words "abraham "came" to mourn for sarah, and to weep for her" in that abraham came directly from mount moriah and the binding of isaac. the midrash told that at the very moment in that the angel of the lord stayed abraham from sacrificing isaac, the satan appeared to sarah in the guise of isaac. when sarah saw him, she asked what abraham had done to him. he told sarah that abraham had taken him to a mountain, built an altar, placed wood upon it, tied him down on it, and took a knife to slaughter him, and had god not told him not to lay a hand on him, abraham would have slaughtered him. as soon as he finished speaking, sarah's soul departed. similarly, reading "and abraham came to mourn for sarah," the pirke de-rabbi eliezer reported that abraham came from mount moriah to find that sarah had died. when abraham set out from mount moriah in peace, the anger of sammael (the satan) was kindled, for he saw that his desire to frustrate abraham's offering had not been realized. so sammael told sarah that abraham had killed isaac and offered him as a burnt offering upon the altar. sarah began to weep and to cry aloud three times, corresponding to the three sustained notes (of the shofar), and she gave forth three howlings corresponding to the three disconnected short notes (of the shofar), and her soul fled, and she died.
chayei sarah