Genesis 23:3
And Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 23:5And the sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,
Genesis 25:10the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth. There Abraham was buried, and Sarah his wife.
Genesis 49:30in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying place.
2 Samuel 23:39Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 23:2-3
The Death of Sarah. ( b. c. 1857.) 1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah. 2 And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. We have here, 1. Sarah's age, v. 1 . Almost forty years before, she had called herself old, ch. xviii. 12 . Old people will die never the sooner, but may die the better, for reckoning themselves old. 2. Her death, v. 2 . The longest liver must die… Read the whole commentary →