Genesis 23:3

And Abraham came from his dead and said to the children of Heth,

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And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

In Context

2And Sarah's death took place in Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan: and Abraham went into his house, weeping and sorrowing for Sarah.

4I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.

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Cross References

Genesis 23:5And in answer the children of Heth said to Abraham,

Genesis 25:10The same field which Abraham got from the children of Heth: there Abraham was put to rest with Sarah, his wife.

Genesis 49:30In the rock in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham got from Ephron the Hittite, to be his resting-place.

2 Samuel 23:39Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in number.

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 →

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