Genesis 23:4
“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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In Context
5The children of Heth [Trembling fear] answered Abraham [Father of a multitude], saying to him,
Cross References
Genesis 17:8I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan [Humbled], for an everlasting possession. + 17:8. Quoted in Acts 7:5 I will be their God.”
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.
Leviticus 25:23+ 25:23. Lev 25:23 (Lev 25:23-28) (#4.326): Not to sell land in the Land of Israel [God prevails] in perpetuity, permanently, without reclaim, nor indefinitely T. Note Reason: For the land is mine (Adonai’s) and you are strangers and live as temporary residents with me “‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
Psalms 105:12when they were but a few men in number, 2 yes, very few, and foreigners in it. 1
Matthew Henry on Genesis 23:4-16
The Cave of Machpelah. ( b. c. 1857.) 3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, 4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. 5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, 6 Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead. 7 And… Read the whole commentary →