Genesis 23:3
And Avraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke unto the bnei Chet, saying,
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 bnei Chet answered Avraham, saying unto him,
Genesis 25:10The sadeh which Avraham purchased of the bnei Chet, there was Avraham buried, and Sarah his wife.
Genesis 49:30In the me'arah that is in the sadeh of Machpelah, which is near Mamre, in Eretz Kena'an, which Avraham bought with the sadeh of Ephron the Chitti for an achuzzat kever (burial estate).
2 Samuel 23:39Uriyah the Chitti; 37 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 →