Genesis 23:3
And Abraham rises up from the presence of his dead, and speaks to the sons of Heth, saying,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 23:5And the sons of Heth answer Abraham, saying to him,
Genesis 25:10the field which Abraham bought from the sons of Heth—there Abraham has been buried, and his wife Sarah.
Genesis 49:30in the cave which [is] in the field of Machpelah, which [is] on the front of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place;
2 Samuel 23:39Uriah the Hittite: thirty-seven in all.
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 →