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Genesis 23:2 KJV
Genesis · chapter 23 · verse 2
And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.Genesis 23:2 · King James Version
Genesis 23:2 in context
1And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
2And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
3And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
4I 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- KirjatharbaQiryath ʼArbaʻKirjath-Arba or Kirjath-ha-Arba, a place in PalestineH7153 →
- AbrahamʼAbrâhâmAbraham, the later name of AbramH85 →
- HebronChebrôwnChebron, a place in Palestine, also the name of two IsraelitesH2275 →
- CanaanKᵉnaʻanKenaan, a son a HamH3667 →
- SarahSârâhSarah, Abraham's wifeH8283 →
- mournçâphadproperly, to tear the hair and beat the breastsH5594 →
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We have here, 1. Sarah's age, Gen 23:1. Almost forty years before, she had called herself old, Gen 18:12. Old people will die never the sooner, but may die the better, for reckoning themselves old. 2. Her death, Gen 23:2. The longest liver must die at last. Abraham and Sarah had lived comfortably together many years;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-2