Genesis 23
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And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

Kirjath-arba.

Genesis 23:19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the …

Genesis 13:18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelled in the plain of …

Numbers 13:22 And they ascended by the south, and came to Hebron; where Ahiman, …

Joshua 10:39 And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; …

Joshua 14:14,15 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh …

Joshua 20:7 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem …

Judges 1:10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelled in Hebron: (now …

1 Samuel 20:31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the ground, you shall not …

2 Samuel 2:11 And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah …

2 Samuel 5:3,5 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king …

1 Chronicles 6:57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, …

came. For the convenience of feeding his numerous flocks, Abraham had several places of temporary residence; and it is likely, that while he sojourned at Beer-sheba, as we find he did from ver.

mourn.

Genesis 27:41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father …

Genesis 50:10 And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, …

Numbers 20:29 And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned …

Deuteronomy 34:8 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty …

1 Samuel 28:3 Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried …

2 Samuel 1:12,17 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and …

2 Chronicles 35:25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the …

Jeremiah 22:10,18 Weep you not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for …

Ezekiel 24:16-18 Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes …

John 11:31,35 The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, …

Acts 8:2 And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation …

And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
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.
And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
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.
And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.
And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

dwelt. Or, sitting (as the word frequently denotes) among the children of Heth, at the gate of the city, where all public business was transacted. Ephron, though a chief man, might have been personally unknown to Abraham; but now he answers for himself, making a free tender of the field and cave to Abraham, in the presence of all the people, which amounted to a legal conveyance to the Patriarch.

audience. Heb. ears. all that.

Genesis 23:18 To Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, …

Genesis 34:20,24 And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and …

Ruth 4:1-4 Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, …

Job 29:7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my …

Isaiah 28:6 And for a spirit of judgment to him that sits in judgment, and for …

his.

Genesis 24:10 And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and …

Matthew 9:1 And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city.

Luke 2:3,4 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city…

Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.
And Abraham bowed down himself before the people of the land.
And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead there.
And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy dead.

is worth. Though the words 'is worth' are not in the Text, yet they are clearly implied, to adapt the Hebrew to the English idiom. A shekel, according to the general opinion, was equal in value to about

Genesis 23:16 And Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the …

shekels.

Exodus 30:15 The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than …

Ezekiel 45:12 And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty …

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
And the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure
Unto Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.
And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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