Genesis 23:3
Then Abraham got up from beside his wife's body and went to talk with the leaders of the Hittites.
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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 Hittites answered Abraham, telling him,
Genesis 25:10This was the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
Genesis 49:30This is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, that Abraham bought together with the field from Ephron the Hittite to own as a burial site.
2 Samuel 23:39and Uriah the Hittite; a total of 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 →