Where did Abraham go to find a wife for his son Isaac?

Answer 1

A:Like Abraham before him, and then Jacob, Isaac could not marry any of the mortals in the land, so Abraham sent a servant to his former city of Haran to find a wife for Isaac. The servant found a young maiden at the nearby town of Nahor. Rebekah, the chosen wife, was the daughter of Bethuel and Milcah, which in Akkadian was a title given to Ishtar, the moon god's daughter. Genesis 24:15 says that Bethuel was Abraham's nephew and Genesis 11:29 says that Milcah was the daughter of Haran, and therefore Abraham's niece. According to Genesis, Rebekah was a surprisingly close relative to Isaac.

Haran was the city of the moon-god Sin and Nahor means "Light or lamp", suggestive of the moon, but is also the name of the Abraham's brother. As many of the family had names closely associated with the moon, the family of the Hebrew patriarchs were, at the very least, devout followers of the moon god.

Another Answer:

In Genesis 24:10, it says Isaac was sent to the Mesopotamian cith of Nahor. He did not want to mix the now called line of his descendants to those of the unrighteous peoples of Canaan. He was following God's promise.

Genesis 24:1-4New King James Version (NKJV) A Bride for Isaac24 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in age; and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. 2 So Abraham said to the oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please, put your hand under my thigh, 3 and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell; 4 but you shall go to my country and to my family, and take a wife for my son Isaac."

Answer 2

Technically, it is Abraham's servant that finds Isaac a wife, as Abraham is too old to travel at this point. The servant goes back to Abraham's homeland, and fins Rebekah in Aram Naharaim in the town of Nahor (Genesis 24:10) Read Genesis 24 in its entirety if you want the full story of how Isaac married Rebekah.

Answer 3

A:Genesis 24:3-4 tells us that for some reason Abraham did not want Isaac to marry one of the Canaanite women: "And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac." This would also be the case when it came time for Isaac's son Jacob to marry, so there must have been compelling reasons. And it could not be because the Canaanites were pagans, because we later find The Bible telling us that Isaac's chosen wife, Rebekah, was also pagan. And the Book of Genesis says that he himself had been willing to have a child with an Egyptian slave.

When we look forward through the wives of all the patriarchs, we find they have one thing in common: they were all descended from Abraham's father, Terah. Abraham's own wife, Sarai or Sarah, was his sister and therefore the daughter of Terah. Isaac's wife, Rebekah, was the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother. The third patriarch, Jacob, married Leah and Rachel, daughters of Laban, Rebekah's brother. The consequence of this is that the patriarchal family line is a self-contained unit, originating solely in Terah, with no pathways to or from the outer world. The children of Israel were all descended solely from Terah, through both male and female lines all the way back to Abraham and Sarah.

We could stop there, but there is more information we can use, to identify the real reason Abraham required his son Isaac to marry in his own family line. We now know that Terah was the name of the moon God of northern Syria. The name Terah is also related to the Hebrew for 'moon' or 'month'. His home city was Ur, where the patron god was the moon-god, there called Nannar. The name Laban means 'white' and is associated with the moon. The etymology of the name Rebekah is with the Hebrew for a 'tied up calf', appropriate as the consort of the moon god, who was often associated with a calf. Leah ('wild cow') and Rachel ('ewe') are names associated with Asherah, the Queen of Heaven, known to the Romans as Venus. There are many other indications in the Bible that in the very earliest versions of the srory, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were manifestations of the moon god. With the passage of centuries, they came to be regarded as mortals and the ancestors of the Hebrew people, but they also reflect the times when the Hebrew people worshipped the moon god. It becomes clear that Isaac, and in turn Jacob, could not marry Canaanites because the Canaanites were mere mortals.

Answer 4

All the patriarchs, Abram, Isaac and Jacob married women descended from Abram's father, Terah. They came from the city-state of Haran.

Answer 5

Abraham sent his servant to find a wife for his son Isaac from his homeland in Mesopotamia. The servant found Rebecca at a well in Nahor's hometown and brought her back to Canaan to marry Isaac.