--As Isaac was thirty-seven years of age when Sarah died (Genesis 23:1), and forty at his marriage (Genesis 25:20), Abraham, who was a centenarian at Isaac's birth, would now be nearly 140. As he lived to be 175 (Genesis 25:7), he survived Isaac's marriage thirty-five years,...
His mother, whom he loved dearly, died in 1818. 【1】 When she saw that Abraham liked reading, she did all she could to help him. But the family was poor and the boy could not get many books. Abraham Lincoln later said himself that he only went to school a little now and a ...
Lincoln had very little formal education, but he became one of the best-educated men of the Great West. When Lincoln was a young man, his family moved to the new state of Illinois. Lincoln had to make a living at an early age, but in his spare time he studied law. He soon became...
After serving God faithfully, Abraham died when 175 years of age. There are many profitable lessons to be gleaned from the biography of this notable man of God: Faith has always trials. Being a Christian does not mean that trial is impossible or unnecessary. The greater the faith, the ...
Genesis 25:9 Isaac was seventy-five and Ishmael nearly ninety years of age when their father died. Jacob and Esau were fifteen, and may have been present. Genesis 25:12 Lit these are the generations of. Genesis 25:17 See note v 8. Genesis 25:18 Lit before. Genesis 25:18 Lit fell ...
Edward Lincoln, who was born in 1846, died in 1850. Willie Lincoln was born in 1850 but only lived until 1862, when he died from a severe illness. Tad Lincoln was born in 1853 and lived until the age of 18, when he died of heart failure. The tragedy of losing three of their sons...
died of "milk sickness" when Abraham was ten, and the family moved to Indiana. The year after, Thomas Lincoln married Sarah Bush Johnston, who encouraged Abraham's education. Though he had little formal schooling, he could read and write. In 1830, when Abraham was enty-one year...
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When his father was appointed city architect (Stads-bouwmeester) in Amsterdam 1591 he accompanied him there, and on his father's death in 1593 returned finally to Utrecht, where he set up a workshop and in 1594 became dean ("deken") of the "zadelaarsgilde", as from 1367 the painters ...
Abram was a son of Terah. Abram's two brothers were called Nahor and Haran, and their half-sister (same father) was called Sarai. Haran had two daughters and a son. Nahor married one of the daughters, and when Haran died, Abram adopted Haran's son Lot. That's when the journey tr...