Genesis 23:3
And when he had risen up from the funeral duties, he spoke to the sons of Heth, saying:
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In The King James Version
And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
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Cross References
Genesis 23:5The sons of Heth responded by saying:
Genesis 25:10which he had bought from the sons of Heth. There he was buried, with his wife Sarah.
Genesis 49:30opposite Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought, along with its field, from Ephron the Hittite, as a possession for burial.
2 Samuel 23:39Uriah the Hittite: altogether thirty seven
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 →