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- The Death of Sarah
2. ארבע קרית _qı̂ryat_-_'arba‛_, “Qirjath-arba‘, city
of Arba.” ארבע _'arba‛_, “Arba‘, four.”
8. עפרון _‛__eprôn_, “‘Ephron, of the dust, or resembling
a calf.”...
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CHAPTER 23 THE DEATH OF SARAH
_ 1. Sarah dies (Genesis 23:1)_
2. The grave obtained (Genesis 23:3)
3. The burial of Sarah (Genesis 23:19)
We call the attention to the typical meaning of the death
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GENESIS 23. ABRAHAM PURCHASES THE CAVE OF MACHPELAH AS A BURYING-PLACE
OF SARAH. This chapter belongs to P, as is shown by its legal
precision and the wordiness of its style, by numerous characteristi...
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I AM. Compare "thou art", Genesis 23:6.
STRANGER AND. SOJOURNER. Compare 1 Peter 2:11.Psalms 39:12....
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_a stranger and a sojourner_ Abraham describes himself, in a
proverbial phrase, as one whose origin is foreign, and whose period of
residence is uncertain. LXX πάροικος καὶ
παρεπίδημος, Lat. _advena e...
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I AM A STRANGER, &C.— There is something affecting in the venerable
patriarch's declaration and request: a stranger in the land of
promise, and inheriting no part of it, he requests the possession of...
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PART THIRTY-FIVE
THE STORY OF ABRAHAM: HIS PROVISIONS FOR POSTERITY
Genesis 23:1 to Genesis 25:18
1. _Provision of a Burial Place_ (Genesis 23:1-20)
1 And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven
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_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._
No JFB commentary on these verses....
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23:4 sojourner (a-7) Or 'settler.'...
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DEATH OF SARAH AND PURCHASE OF THE BURYINGPLACE OF MACHPELAH BY
ABRAHAM
This section is from the Priestly source and dwells on the legal
transaction....
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 23
ABRAHAM BUYS A FIELD
V1 Sarah lived for 127 years. That was the number of years of her
life. V2 Sarah died in Kiriath-arba in the country that...
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A POSSESSION OF A BURYINGPLACE. — While strangers might pasture
their cattle upon the open downs, yet the consent of the natives seems
to have been necessary before Abraham could occupy any spot
perma...
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גֵּר ־וְ תֹושָׁ֥ב אָנֹכִ֖י עִמָּכֶ֑ם
תְּנ֨וּ...
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PURCHASE OF MACHPELAH
Genesis 23:1
IT may be supposed to be a needless observation that our life is
greatly influenced by the fact that it speedily and certainly ends in
death. But it might be intere...
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ABRAHAM BUYS A BURIAL PLACE
Genesis 23:1
Death is an ever-constant monitor that this world is not our home. We
rise up from before our dead to confess that we are only strangers and
sojourners on the...
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We now see Abraham in the midst of personal sorrow, which reveals his
character in a remarkable way.
Sarah, who had ever been to him a princess, was now taken from his
side, which meant the loss of th...
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SARAH'S DEATH
Sarah died in Kirjath Arba, which was known to the Jews as Hebron, at
the age of one hundred twenty-seven (Genesis 23:1-2). Peter considers
her to be the mother of all faithful women who...
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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.
Acts 7:5. How sweetly David made use of the same expression, and
con...
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We have had hitherto God's account of that which He had made; then the
trial and utter ruin of the creature, with the revelation of divine
mercy in Christ the Lord. We have had in fine the judgment of...
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4._I am a stranger and a sojourner with you_. This introductory
sentence tends to one or other of these points; either that he may
more easily gain what he desires by suppliantly asking for it; or tha...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22, 23, AND 24.
But on this introduction of the heir, he necessarily becomes the main
subject; and chapter 22 opens with it: "It came to pass after these
thin...
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I [AM] A STRANGER AND A SOJOURNER WITH YOU,.... Not a native of the
place, only dwelt as a sojourner among them for a time; but had not so
much as a foot of ground he could call his own, and consequen...
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_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._
Ver. 4. _That I may bury my dead out of my sight._] She that ha...
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_I am a stranger and a sojourner with you_ Therefore I am unprovided,
and must become a suiter to you for a burying-place. This was one
occasion which Abraham took to _confess_ that he was _a stranger...
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1 The age and death of Sarah.
3 The purchase of Machpelah,
19 where Sarah was buried.
1 AND Sarah was an hundred and seuen and twenty yeeres olde: these
were the yeeres of the life of Sarah.
2 And...
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I am a stranger and a sojourner with you; give me a possession of a
burying-place with you that I may bury my dead out of my sight. That
Abraham observed the usual period of mourning did not in any wa...
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ABRAHAM NEGOTIATES FOR A BURIAL-PLACE....
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ELEVENTH SECTION
_The sorrows and joys of Abraham’s domestic life. The account and
genealogy of those at home. Sarah’s death. Her burial-place at
Hebron; the seed of the future inheritance of Canaan....
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THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF SARAH
The time arrives for Sarah's death at the age of 127 years. This
illustrates another lesson as regards the aftermath of the sacrifice
of the Lord Jesus. Sarah is typical...
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1-13 The longest life must shortly come to a close. Blessed be God
that there is a world where sin, death, vanity, and vexation cannot
enter. Blessed be his name, that even death cannot part believer...
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The privilege of burial hath been always sought and prized by all
nations, whom nature and humanity teacheth to preserve the bodies of
men, which have been the temples of reasonable and immortal souls...
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This little section of inspiration furnishes much sweet and profitable
instruction to the soul. In it the Holy Spirit sets before us a
beautiful exhibition of the mode in which the man of faith should...
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Genesis 23:4 foreigner H1616 visitor H8453 Give H5414 (H8798) property
H272 place H6913 bury H6912 (H8799) dead...
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‘And Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the children
of Heth, saying, “I am a stranger and a sojourner with you. Give me
a possession of a burial place with you, that I may bury my dead...
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BURYINGPLACE
Compare (Genesis 33:19); (Genesis 50:13); (Joshua 24:32); (Acts
7:15); ...
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CONTENTS: Death of Sarah. Burial in cave of Machpelah.
CHARACTERS: Sarah, Abraham, sons of Heth, Ephron.
CONCLUSION: Although the man of faith knows that in the resurrection
glory he shall be heir to...
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Genesis 23:4. _A burying-place._ Abraham believed in a future state;
therefore he, as well as the other patriarchs, buried his dead.
Joseph, actuated by this belief, gave commandment for his bones to...
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_I am a stranger and a sojourner among you_
STRANGERS IN THE EARTH
I. THE EXHORTATION. A true Christian’s life should be that of a
stranger and a sojourner.
1. Such persons are at once recognized. M...
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_Abraham buried Sarah his wife_
ABRAHAM BURYING HIS DEAD
I. CONSIDER HIM AS A MAN.
II. CONSIDER HIM AS A MAN OF BUSINESS.
1. His independence (Genesis 23:4; Genesis 23:6).
2. His exactness ...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 23:1 Upon the death of Sarah, Abraham buys a
cave in Hebron as a burial place. By acquiring this land, Abraham
confirms that his descendants are to be associated with the land...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 23:4 A SOJOURNER AND FOREIGNER AMONG YOU.
Despite God’s repeated promises that Abraham’s descendants will
possess all the land of Canaan, after 62 years in the land Abraham has...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 23:3. Stood up from before his dead.] “Abraham must be
thought of as ‘weeping over the face’ of Sarah (2 Kings 13:14),
and he rise sup _from the face of his dead._” (_Alford.)...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 23:1
AND SARAH WAS AN HUNDRED AND SEVEN AND TWENTY YEARS OLD (literally,
and _the lives of Sarah were an hundred and twenty and seven years_);_
_so that Isaac must have been thirty...
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And so Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years old. And she died in
Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham
came to mourn for Sarah (Genesis 23:1-2),
Now evidently Abrah...
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stranger. Genesis 17:8 Genesis 47:9 Leviticus 25:23 1 Chronicles 29:15...
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I am a stranger and a sojourner with you — Therefore I am
unprovided, and must become a suiter to you for a burying — place.
This was one occasion which Abraham took to confess that he was a
stranger...