Genesis 49:29
Then he gave them the following instructions: “I'm going to die soon. Bury me with my forefathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite.
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Genesis 15:15But as for you, you will die in peace and be buried, having lived a good long life.
Genesis 23:20Ownership of the field and the cave there was transferred from the Hittites to Abraham to serve as his burial place.
Genesis 25:9His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field that had belonged to Ephron, son of Zohar, the Hittite.
Genesis 35:29when he breathed his last and died at an old age. He had lived a full life, and now he joined his forefathers in death. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Genesis 50:12Jacob's sons did what he had instructed them to do.
2 Samuel 19:37Then let your servant go back home, that I may die in my home town near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant, my son Chimham. Let him cross over with Your Majesty, and treat him as you think best.”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:29-33
Death of Jacob. ( b. c. 1689.) 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. 29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a… Read the whole commentary →