Genesis 49:29
Then he instructed them and said to them, “I am about to go to my people. Bury me with my forefathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
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Genesis 15:15But you will go to your fathers in peace, and you will be buried in a good old age.
Genesis 23:20So the field and the cave in it passed to Abraham as a property for a burial place from the sons of Heth.
Genesis 25:9Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, which is near Mamre.
Genesis 35:29Isaac breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his ancestors, an old man full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
Genesis 50:12So his sons did for Jacob just as he had instructed them.
2 Samuel 19:37Please let your servant return back home, so I may die in my own city by the grave of my father and my mother. But see, here is your servant Kimham. Let him cross over with my master the king, and do for him what seems good to you.”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 49:29-33
Death of Jacob. ( b. c. 1689.) 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them. 29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a… Read the whole commentary →