Genesis 23:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

• Genesis 23:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  - 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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• Genesis 23:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 characteri...

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• Genesis 23:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  I am. Compare "thou art", Genesis 23:6 . stranger and. sojourner. Compare 1 Peter 2:11 . Psalms 39:12 .

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• Genesis 23:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Genesis 23:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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. I am a stranger and a sojourner - It appears from Hebrews 11:13-...

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• Genesis 23:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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 possess...

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• Genesis 23:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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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• Genesis 23:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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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• Genesis 23:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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 pe...

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• Genesis 23:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  PURCHASE OF MACHPELAH Genesis 23:1-20 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...

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• Genesis 23:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Abraham Buys a Burial Place Genesis 23:1-20 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 sojourne...

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• Genesis 23:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Genesis 23:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Genesis 23:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 conseq...

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• Genesis 23:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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...

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• Genesis 23:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 strange...

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• Genesis 23:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 typi...

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• Genesis 23:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Cave of Machpelah. B. C. 1857.       3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and sp...

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• Genesis 23:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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 soul...

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• Genesis 23:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘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 dea...

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• Genesis 23:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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. ” (...

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• Genesis 23:4 - Scofield Reference Notes

  buryingplace Compare ( Genesis 33:19 ); ( Genesis 50:13 ); ( Joshua 24:32 ); ( Acts 7:15 ); ( Acts 7:16 ). A discrepancy in these statements has been fancied. It disappears entirely before...

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• Genesis 23:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Genesis 23:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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 exa...

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• Genesis 23:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Genesis 23:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Abraham Negotiates for a Burial-Place.

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• Genesis 23:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  stranger. Genesis 17:8 Genesis 47:9 Leviticus 25:23 1 Chronicles 29:15 Psalms 39:12 Psalms 105:12 Psalms 105:13 Psalms 119:19 Hebrews 11:9 Hebrews 11:13-16 1 Peter 2:11 buryingp...

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• Genesis 23:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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 strang...

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