Genesis 23:4
A sojourner and settler, am I with you,—Give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, That I may bury my dead, from before me.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
3And Abraham rose up from over the face of his dead,—and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying;
5And the sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him:
Cross References
Genesis 17:8And I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land of thy sojournings—all the land of Canaan, for an age-abiding possession—And I will be to them a God.
Genesis 49:30in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah which is over against Mamre, in the land of Canaan,—which Abraham bought, along with the field, from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace:—
Leviticus 25:23The land moreover shall not be sold beyond recovery, for, mine, is the land,—for, sojourners and settlers, ye are with me.
Job 30:23For I know that, unto death, thou wilt bring me back, even unto the house of meeting for every one living.
Psalms 105:12While as yet they were men easily counted,—A very few, and sojourners therein;
Ecclesiastes 6:3Though a man should beget a hundred children, and live, many years, so that many should be the days of his years but, his own soul, should not be satisfied with the good, and he should not even have, a burial, I said, Better than he, is an untimely birth!
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 →