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Genesis 23:19

in Genesis 23

After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

This verse in Genesis 23

Commentary

6 notes on this verse
And after this,.... After this affair was over, the bargain struck, the money paid, and possession secured: Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre; and here he himself was buried, and also Isaac and Rebekah, and Jacob and Leah, Gen 25:

This site's exposition

Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave

Sarah is the first of six laid in this cave at Machpelah. Jacob names the rest buried there on his deathbed at 49:31, Abraham and his wife Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, and Leah. He makes Joseph swear to carry him up out of Egypt and lay him here.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Prudentius

SCENES FROM SACRED HISTORY 4-5 · Written before 410.

proposed

This is the lodging place of the Lord, where an oak branch at Mamre Covered the pastoral roof of the ancient seer; in this hospice Sarah laughed at the joy of bearing a child in her old age And at the faith her venerable husband …

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah. 2 And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

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.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְאַחֲרֵי־and after

    veacharei-H310 →715 times

  • כֵן֩thus

    khenH3651 →771 times

  • קָבַ֨רhe buried

    kavarH6912 →133 times

  • אַבְרָהָ֜םAbraham

    ʾavrahamH85 →175 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • שָׂרָ֣הSarah

    sarahH8283 →38 times

  • אִשְׁתּ֗וֹwife his

    ʾishtoH802 →781 times

  • אֶל־into

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מְעָרַ֞ת[the] cave of

    mearatH4631 →37 times

  • שְׂדֵ֧ה[the] field of

    sedehH7704 →334 times

  • הַמַּכְפֵּלָ֛ה<the> Machpelah

    hamakhpelahH4375 →6 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • פְּנֵ֥י[the] face of

    peneiH6440 →2123 times

  • מַמְרֵ֖אMamre

    mamre'H4471 →10 times

  • הִ֣ואthat

    hi'H1931 →1879 times

  • חֶבְר֑וֹן[is] Hebron

    chevronH2275 →72 times

  • בְּאֶ֖רֶץin [the] land of

    beeretzH776 →2504 times

  • כְּנָֽעַן׃Canaan

    kenaanH3667 →94 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 3:19

    By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

    it leads to

    • Ecclesiastes 12:7

      before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

    • Job 34:15

      all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to the dust.

    • Psalms 104:29

      When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.

    • Genesis 2:7

      Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

    • Psalms 90:3

      You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”

  • Through

    Ecclesiastes 6:3

    A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial,…

    it leads to

    • Job 3:16

      Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

    • Jeremiah 22:19

      He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.

    • 2 Kings 9:35

      But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Prudentius, SCENES FROM SACRED HISTORY 4-5.