Genesis 23:2
And Sarrha died in the city of Arboc, which is in the valley, this is Chebron in the land of Chanaan; and Abraam came to lament for Sarrha and to mourn.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
1And the life of Sarrha was one hundred and twenty-seven years.
3And Abraam stood up from before his dead; and Abraam spoke to the sons of Chet, saying,
Cross References
Genesis 13:18And Abram having + 13:18 Or, having lived at a distance. removed his tent, came and lived by the oak of Mambre, which was in Chebrom, and he there built an altar to the Lord.
Genesis 24:67And Isaac went into the house of his mother, and took Rebecca, and she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted for Sarrha his mother.
Genesis 50:1And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept on him, and kissed him.
Numbers 13:22And they went up and surveyed the land from the wilderness of Sin to Rhoob, as men go in to Aemath.
Deuteronomy 34:8And the children of Israel wept for Moses in Araboth of Moab at Jordan near Jericho thirty days; and the days of the sad mourning for Moses were completed.
Joshua 14:14Therefore Chebron became the inheritance of Chaleb the son of Jephone the Kenezite until this day, because he followed the commandment of the Lord God of Israel.
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 →