Genesis 23:3
he left the body of his wife and went and spoke to some of the descendants of Heth, saying,
Translation for Translators
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 23:5They replied to him,
Genesis 25:10Isaac and Ishmael buried his body there, where Abraham previously buried his wife Sarah.
Genesis 49:30That field is in the Machpelah area, east of Mamre town, in Canaan. My grandfather Abraham bought it from Ephron to use as a burial place.
2 Samuel 23:39Uriah, Bathsheba’s husband, from the Heth people-group. Altogether, there were 37 famous soldiers, but some of them had died and their names were not included.
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 →