4I 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.
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For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
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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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…
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