Genesis 23:7
And Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 18:2and he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood over against him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,
Genesis 23:12And Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.
Proverbs 18:24He that maketh many friends doeth it to his own destruction: but there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Hebrews 12:14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:
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 →