Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life. Gen 17:17 Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. Gen 23:19Gen 13:181Ch 6:57Jdg 1:101Sa 20:311Sa 28:32Ch 35:252Sa 1:12 Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the children of Heth, saying, Gen 10:151Sa 26:62Sa 23:39Gen 23:5Gen 23:7Gen 27:46Gen 49:30Gen 25:10 “I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.” 1Ch 29:15Heb 11:9Gen 17:8Psa 119:19Act 7:5Gen 49:30Heb 11:13-16Lev 25:23
The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him, “Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead.” Gen 24:35Gen 14:141Jn 3:1-2Exo 32:22Gen 13:2Gen 18:12Gen 21:22Gen 24:18
Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth. Heb 12:14Gen 18:2Gen 19:1Pro 18:24Rom 12:17-181Pe 3:8 He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, 1Jn 2:1-21Ki 2:17Gen 25:9Heb 7:26Luk 7:3-4 that he may sell me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him sell it to me among you as a possession for a burial place.” Rom 12:17Rom 13:8
Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying, Gen 34:20Gen 34:24Gen 23:18Gen 24:10Isa 28:6Job 29:7Luk 2:3-4Mat 9:1 “No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead.” Luk 19:24Isa 32:81Ch 21:22-242Sa 24:20-24Deu 17:6Deu 19:15Gen 23:18Gen 23:6
Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land. Gen 18:2Gen 19:1Gen 23:7 He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, “But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there.” Rom 13:82Sa 24:24Act 20:35Gen 14:22-23Col 4:5Heb 13:5Php 4:5-8
Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, “My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver 1 between me and you? Therefore bury your dead.” Ezk 45:12Exo 30:13Exo 30:15
Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants’ standard. Jer 32:9Zec 11:121Th 4:6Exo 30:13Ezk 45:12Ezr 8:25-30Gen 23:15Gen 43:21
So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded Gen 25:9Gen 50:13Gen 23:20Act 7:16Gen 49:29-32Col 4:5Eph 5:15Jer 32:7-14 to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city. Gen 34:20Jer 32:12Rut 4:1 After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before 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 The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham by the children of Heth as a possession for a burial place. Jer 32:10-14Rut 4:7-102Ki 21:182Sa 24:24Gen 25:9Gen 49:31-32Gen 50:13Gen 50:24-25