Genesis 23:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

Genesis 23:3 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 10:15
And Canaan begat Sidon his firstborn, and Heth,
Genesis 23:5
And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
Genesis 23:7
And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
2 Samuel 23:39
Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.
Genesis 49:30
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 of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 3-15)

Here is, I. The humble request which Abraham made to his neighbours, the Hittites, for a burying-place among them, Gen. 23:3, 4. It was strange he had this to do now; but we are to impute it rather to God’s providence than to his improvidence, as appears Acts 7:5; where it is said, God gave him no inheritance in Canaan. It were well if all those who take care to provide burying-places for their bo…

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

(vv. 3)

3. Abraham stood up, &c.--Eastern people are always provided with family burying-places; but Abraham’s life of faith--his pilgrim state--had prevented him acquiring even so small a possession (Ac 7:5). spake unto the sons of Heth--He bespoke their kind offices to aid him in obtaining possession of a cave that belonged to Ephron--a wealthy neighbor.