The Bible Story - Volume I - Basil Wolverton - 1982

Basil Wolverton

ABOUT three years after his wife Sarah had died, Abraham began to think about Isaac getting married. By then Isaac was forty years old. Abraham was concerned lest his son pick a wife from among the Canaanites, who were idol worshipers. Abraham instructed his chief servant to take men, camels and provisions on a trip to Mesopotamia, Abraham's native land, and bring back a wife for Isaac from among his own people. (Gen. 24:3-4.) It was the custom then, as it still is in some countries, for parents to choose whom their sons and daughters would marry. Abraham felt certain that there were many people still in Mesopotamia who worshiped God. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library