The Death and Burial of Sarah
Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old. Gen 17:17 She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her. Gen 23:19Gen 13:181Ch 6:57Jdg 1:101Sa 20:311Sa 28:32Ch 35:252Sa 1:12
Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites, 1 Gen 10:151Sa 26:62Sa 23:39Gen 23:5Gen 23:7Gen 27:46Gen 49:30Gen 25:10 “I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.” 1Ch 29:15Heb 11:9Gen 17:8Psa 119:19Act 7:5Gen 49:30Heb 11:13-16Lev 25:23
The Hittites replied to Abraham, “Listen to us, sir. You are God’s chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead.” Gen 24:35Gen 14:141Jn 3:1-2Exo 32:22Gen 13:2Gen 18:12Gen 21:22Gen 24:18
Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites. Heb 12:14Gen 18:2Gen 19:1Pro 18:24Rom 12:17-181Pe 3:8 “If you are willing for me to bury my dead,” he said to them, “listen to me, and approach Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf 1Jn 2:1-21Ki 2:17Gen 25:9Heb 7:26Luk 7:3-4 to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.” Rom 12:17Rom 13:8
Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham, Gen 34:20Gen 34:24Gen 23:18Gen 24:10Isa 28:6Job 29:7Luk 2:3-4Mat 9:1 “No, my lord. Listen to me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.” Luk 19:24Isa 32:81Ch 21:22-242Sa 24:20-24Deu 17:6Deu 19:15Gen 23:18Gen 23:6
Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land Gen 18:2Gen 19:1Gen 23:7 and said to Ephron in their presence, “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.” Rom 13:82Sa 24:24Act 20:35Gen 14:22-23Col 4:5Heb 13:5Php 4:5-8
Ephron answered Abraham, “Listen to me, my lord. The land is worth four hundred shekels of silver, 2 but what is that between you and me? Bury your dead.” Ezk 45:12Exo 30:13Exo 30:15
Abraham agreed to Ephron’s terms and weighed out for him the price he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the standard of the merchants. Jer 32:9Zec 11:121Th 4:6Exo 30:13Ezk 45:12Ezr 8:25-30Gen 23:15Gen 43:21
So Ephron’s field at Machpelah near Mamre, the cave that was in it, and all the trees within the boundaries of the field were deeded over Gen 25:9Gen 50:13Gen 23:20Act 7:16Gen 49:29-32Col 4:5Eph 5:15Jer 32:7-14 to Abraham’s possession in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city. Gen 34:20Jer 32:12Rut 4:1 After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Ecc 12:5Ecc 12:7Ecc 6:3Gen 25:9-10Gen 3:19Gen 35:27-29Gen 47:30Gen 49:29-32 So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site. Jer 32:10-14Rut 4:7-102Ki 21:182Sa 24:24Gen 25:9Gen 49:31-32Gen 50:13Gen 50:24-25