Genesis 23:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

Genesis 23:1 —

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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-2)

We have here, 1. Sarah’s age, Gen. 23:1. Almost forty years before, she had called herself old, Gen. 18:12. Old people will die never the sooner, but may die the better, for reckoning themselves old. 2. Her death, Gen. 23:2. The longest liver must die at last. Abraham and Sarah had lived comfortably together many years; but death parts those whom nothing else could part. The special friends and fa…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Ge 23:1, 2. Age and Death of Sarah. 1. Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old, &c.--Sarah is the only woman in Scripture whose age, death, and burial are mentioned, probably to do honor to the venerable mother of the Hebrew people.