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Genesis 23:3

Abraham [Father of a multitude] rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth [Trembling fear], saying,

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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,

In Context

2Sarah [Princess] died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan [Humbled]. Abraham [Father of a multitude] came to mourn for Sarah [Princess], and to weep for her.

4“I am a stranger and a foreigner + 23:4. Quoted in Heb 11:13; 1 Pet 2:11 living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

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Cross References

Genesis 23:5The children of Heth [Trembling fear] answered Abraham [Father of a multitude], saying to him,

Genesis 25:10the field which Abraham [Father of a multitude] purchased of the children of Heth [Trembling fear]. Abraham [Father of a multitude] was buried there with Sarah [Princess], his wife.

Genesis 49:30in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah [Double], which is before Mamre [Bitter, Fatness], in the land of Canaan [Humbled], which Abraham [Father of a multitude] bought with the field from Ephron [Fawn-like] the Hittite [Descendant of Trembling fear] as a burial place.

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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