Kejadian 25:15-19
Konteks25:15 Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. 25:16 These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their settlements and their camps – twelve princes 1 according to their clans.
25:17 Ishmael lived a total of 2 137 years. He breathed his last and died; then he joined his ancestors. 3 25:18 His descendants 4 settled from Havilah to Shur, which runs next 5 to Egypt all the way 6 to Asshur. 7 They settled 8 away from all their relatives. 9
25:19 This is the account of Isaac, 10 the son of Abraham.
Abraham became the father of Isaac.
[25:16] 1 tn Or “tribal chieftains.”
[25:17] 2 tn Heb “And these are the days of the years of Ishmael.”
[25:17] 3 tn Heb “And he was gathered to his people.” In the ancient Israelite view he joined his deceased ancestors in Sheol, the land of the dead.
[25:18] 4 tn Heb “they”; the referent (Ishmael’s descendants) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[25:18] 5 tn Heb “which is by the face of,” or near the border. The territory ran along the border of Egypt.
[25:18] 7 sn The name Asshur refers here to a tribal area in the Sinai.
[25:18] 9 tn Heb “upon the face of all his brothers.” This last expression, obviously alluding to the earlier oracle about Ishmael (Gen 16:12), could mean that the descendants of Ishmael lived in hostility to others or that they lived in a territory that was opposite the lands of their relatives. While there is some ambiguity about the meaning, the line probably does give a hint of the Ishmaelite-Israelite conflicts to come.
[25:19] 10 sn This is the account of Isaac. What follows for several chapters is not the account of Isaac, except briefly, but the account of Jacob and Esau. The next chapters tell what became of Isaac and his family.
