Genesis 23:3

Then he got up and had a meeting with the Hittite people who owned that country.

Barkly (portions)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4Abraham said to them, “I am a stranger here, and my wife has died. Can I buy some land from you so that I can bury her body?”

Read all of Genesis 23

Cross References

Genesis 23:5The Hittite people answered, “Sir. We know that you are a great leader living in our country. You can bury your wife in the best place in our cemetery. We respect you and so no-one will stop you.”

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Genesis 23:3