The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth,.... Of one of them, Ephron, the rest being witnesses of it, Genesis 23:16;
there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife; Sarah had been buried there thirty eight years before, which was the reason why his sons buried, him there; if he died in Beersheba, as seems probable, see
Genesis 24:62; from thence to Hebron were sixteen miles h; so far was he carried to be interred.
h Bunting's Travels, p. 57.