Genesis 23:2

She died in Canaan in the town called Hebron. Her husband cried and was very upset about his wife dying.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1Sarah lived to be 127 years.

3Then Abraham left the place where his wife's body was lying and went to the Hittite people to talk to them there in Hebron. He found them in their usual place for talking, sitting at the gate where the people gathered together. Abraham said to them,

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Cross References

Genesis 13:18So Abram moved and went and made a new camp at Hebron. He stayed near the special trees belonging to a man called Mamre, and there Abram made an altar with stones to pray to Yahweh, and then he worshipped him.

Genesis 24:67Isaac took Rebecca into his tent. It had belonged to his mother Sarah. Then Rebecca became his wife and Isaac loved her and she comforted him after his mother's death.

Genesis 50:1When Joseph saw that his father had died, he threw himself on him and kissed him and cried loudly.

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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