Genesis 23:4
“I am a foreigner among you. Please grant me a property for a burial place among you, so that I may bury my dead.”
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3Then Abraham rose up and went from his dead wife, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying,
5The sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying,
Cross References
Genesis 17:8I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land where you have been living, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”
Genesis 49:30in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is near Mamre in the land of Canaan, the field that Abraham bought for a burial place from Ephron the Hittite.
Leviticus 25:23The land must not be sold to a new permanent owner, because the land is mine. You are all foreigners and temporary residents on my land.
Job 30:23For I know that you will bring me to death, 1 to the house appointed for all the living. 1
Psalms 105:12He said this when they were only few in number, 1 so very few, and were strangers in the land. 1
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but if his heart is not satisfied with good and he is not buried, then I say that a baby that is born dead is better off than he is.
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 →