So he departed from there and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen in front of him, and he was with the twelfth. Elijah passed by him and cast his cloak upon him.
1 Kings 19:19

Oxen were expensive animals, so Elisha probably came from a very wealthy family. There were twelve teams of oxen plowing together in a field, with Elisha working the twelfth. The others were likely driven by his brothers or servants. Maybe his position with the twelfth team hints that he was another last-born elevated beyond his brothers.

It might also hint that Elisha was only one prophet among twelve chosen to work on God's behalf in Israel at the time.

Why does that sound familiar?

This week I'm thrilled to enjoy this sabbath with my new daughter Elsie, we waited so long for her to arrive and she is finally here!

Sabbath peace to all of you and may you all grow in the knowledge and love of our Messiah Yeshua!

Abraham gave all he had to Isaac.
Genesis 25:5

"All that he had" doesn't mean Abraham's physical possessions because he counted his wealth as nothing. When we are all dead and turned to dust, Abraham's Covenant is the only thing we will still possess.

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Abraham married three times, had at least eight children, traveled the known world, led an army, and accumulated fantastic wealth. He interacted with kings as an equal and was a personal friend of the Creator of heaven and earth. He lived a long and

Genesis 25:6 indicates Abraham fathered children with at least two concubines, Hagar and Keturah. In the ancient Hebrew cultural context, a concubine was a wife with all the legal protections and obligations that implies, but she was also a purchased slave with all of the protections and obligations implied by that status. It was a lesser position than a free wife, but how good or bad life might be depended almost entirely on the local culture and the specific family. Just like everything else.

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I don't think Keturah was the same person as Hagar. If Keturah was just another name for Hagar, then she was having children at over sixty years of age. It's more likely that they were two different women.

Abraham was 140 years old when Sarah died, and his marriage to Keturah appears to have happened after that. If so, then there was probably more than one hundred years age difference between them. Jacob had a significant age difference with his two wives, Rachel and Leah also. At least 40 years.

Those men lived much longer than we do, but that was still a pretty big gap. There's nothing morally wrong with a man marrying a much younger woman, depending on his health and how long he expects to live after the marriage. Any qualms we have are in our own minds and cultural prejudices.