Genesis 23:3

And Abraham stood up from before his dead; and Abraham spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,

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

In Context

2And Sarah died in the city of Arba, which is in the valley, this is Hebron in the land of Canaan; and Abraham came to lament for Sarah and to mourn.

4I am a sojourner and a stranger among you, give me therefore possession of a burying place among you, and I will bury my dead away from me.

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Cross References

Genesis 23:5And the sons of Heth answered to Abraham, saying, Not so, Sir,

Genesis 25:10even the field and the cave which Abraham bought of the sons of Heth; there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife.

Genesis 49:30in the double cave which is opposite Mamre, in the land of Canaan, the cave which Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a sepulcher.

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 →

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