After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
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After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
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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.
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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.
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Passages linked to Genesis 23:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 3:19 You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”
- Genesis 25:9-10 Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is near Mamre, the field which Abraham purchased from the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.
- Genesis 35:27-29 Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners. The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years. Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.
- Genesis 47:30 but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.” Joseph said, “I will do as you have said.”
- Genesis 49:29-32 He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 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 from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place. There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah: the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth.”
- Genesis 50:13 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, as a possession for a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre.
- Genesis 50:25 Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”
- Job 30:23 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
- Ecclesiastes 12:7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 23:19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his…
Gen 23:19 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.
Ver. 19. And Abraham buried Sarah his wife.] The last office of love to bring the deceased saints honourably to their "long home," {Ecc 12:5} to lay them in their last "bed," {Isa 57:2} to put them into the grave, as into a haven and harbout, where they may rest from their labours, "till their change shall come." {Job 14:14} This is to "deal kindly with the dead"; {Rth 1:8} "to show mercy to them," {2Sa 2:5} especially when "the mourners go about the streets," {Ecc 12:5} when there is a "great mourning made over them," as for Stephen, {Act 8:2} and a "great burning for them," as for Asa, {2Ch 16:14} - of whom also it is further added, as an honour, that he was "buried in his own sepulchre, which he had dug for himself among the kings of Israel in the city of David, and laid in the bed that was filled with sweet odours," &c. Of Joram, Joas, and Ahaz, it is expressly noted in the Chronicles, that they were buried in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings of Judah. A worse place was thought good enough for them, unless they had been better. As of Tiberius the emperor it is storied, that he was so hated for his tyranny, that when he was dead, some of the people would have had him thrown into the river Tiber; {a} some, hanged up at such another place as Tyburn. Others also made prayer to mother Earth, to grant him, now dead, no place but among the wicked. {b} Contrarily when Dio died, the people of Syracuse would have gladly redeemed his life with their own blood; which because they could not, they buried him very honourably in an eminent place of their city. {c} Whereas anciently, as Lambinus well noteth, {d} kings and princes, in Homer and other poets, are not read to have been buried, but without the gates, somewhere in the fields and gardens; as the patriarchs also were, looking for the return of that everlasting spring.
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{a} Scalae Gemoniae, [a place in Rome where condemned persons were cast down from a pair of stairs into the Tiber. - Ainsworth].
{b} Quidam etiam Terrain matrem orarent, &c. - Pareus.
{c} Cornel. Nepos in Vita Dionis.
{d} Dionys. Lambin. in Annot. ad locum.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Abraham buried Sarah--Thus he got possession of Machpelah and…
Abraham buried Sarah--Thus he got possession of Machpelah and deposited the remains of his lamented partner in a family vault which was the only spot of ground he owned.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 19. After this, Abraham buried Sarah — He has…
19. After this, Abraham buried Sarah — He has now one secure possession wherein to bury his dead. Here he himself was afterwards buried, (Gen_25:9,) and here also Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob, and Leah. Gen_49:31; Gen_50:13. Is it not noticeable of Abraham and his seed that their first and last possession in the land of promise is — a grave?
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife with…
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife with what funeral rites can only be conjectured. Monumental evidence attests that the practice of embalming the dead existed in Egypt in the reign of Amunophth I (B.C. 1500), though probably originating, earlier. (Sharpe"s "Egypt, vol. 1. p. 31); and an examination of the Mugheir vaults for burying the dead shows that among the early Chaldaeans it was customary to place the corpse upon a matting of reed spread upon a brick floor, the head being pillowed on a single sun-dried brick, and the body turned on its left side, the right arm falling towards the left, and the fingers resting on the edge of a copper bowl, usually placed on the palm of the left hand (vide Rawlinson s "Ancient Monarchies," vol. 1. p. 87)in the cave of the field of Machpelah before: Mamre. In which also in succession his own remains and those of Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob, and Leah were deposited, Rachel alone of the great patriarchal family being absent. This last resting-place of Abraham and his sons, as of Sarah and her daughters, has been identified with Ramet-el-Kalil, an hour"s journey to the north of Hebron (which is too distant), where the foundations of an ancient heathen temple are still pointed out as Abraham"s house; but is more probably to be sought for in the Mohammedan mosque Haram, built of colossal blocks, and situated on the mountain slope of Hebron towards the east (Robinson, Thomson, Stanley, Tristram), which, after having been for 600 years hermetically sealed against Europeans, only three during that period having gained access to it in disguise, was visited in 1862 by the Prince of Wales and party (vide Stanley, "Lectures on Jewish Church," App. 2.). The same is Hebron in the land of Canaan (vide Ver. 2).
HOMILIES BY R.A. REDFORD Vers. 19, 20.
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The death and burial of Sarah.
I TRUE RELIGION SANCTIFIES NATURAL RELATIONSHIPS. Those who know themselves blessed of God do not only feel that their human affections are precious and true, but do, in obedience to his will, preserve the greatest respect for their bodily frame, and for their dead who died in the Lord, and whose dust is committed tenderly to his keeping.
II THE PEOPLE OF GOD WERE UPHELD BY FAITH IN THEIR CARE FOR THE DEAD. They looked beyond the grave. Some say there is no evidence of the doctrine of immortality in the Old Testament until after the captivity Surely Abraham"s feelings were not those of one who sorrowed without hope. The purchase of the field, the securing possession for all time of the burying-place, pointed to faith, not the lack of it. Where there is no sense of immortality there is no reverence for the dead.
III THE PURCHASE OF THE FIELD was not only its security, but a testimony to the heathen that the people of God held in reverence both the memory of the dead and the rights of the living. All social prosperity has its root in religious life. R.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 After this
After this
"After he bought the field"
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the cave of the field
"the cave in the field"
the field of Machpelah
"the field in Machpelah"
that is, Hebron
Possible meanings are 1) Mamre was another name for Hebron or 2) Hebron was formerly called Mamre or 3) Mamre was very near the larger city of Hebron, so people usually called it Hebron.
passed to Abraham as a property for a burial place from the sons of Heth
"became Abraham's property for a burial ground when he bought it from the sons of Heth"
the sons of Heth
Here "sons" stands for those who descended from Heth. See how you translated this in Genesis 23:3. AT: "the descendants of Heth" (See: How to Translate Names)
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Abraham
Sarah
Hebron
Canaan
grave
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