Genesis 35:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

Jacob came unto ... Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron. (See the note at Genesis 23:2.) At the time of Jacob's flight, Isaac was resident in Beer-sheba; but as he advanced in age he seems to have removed to Mamre, to be near the family gravesite.

Genesis 35:27

27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.