Abraham remarries after Sarah’s death, and his second wife’s name is Keturah. Even though he himself felt he was past the age of fathering children before Isaac, he now produces six more children (25:2). The places represented by these names are all Arabian. The best-known of them (from the books of Numbers and Judges) is Midian. These six children of Abraham do not supplant Isaac as the son of promise (25:5). Abraham lives until he is 175 years old (25:7–11). This …