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Genesis 23:1-20
The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 23:1-20
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Matthew Henry on Genesis 23:1-13Genesis 23:1-13 · Matthew Henry Concise CommentaryThe longest life must shortly come to a close. Blessed be God that there is a world where sin, death, vanity, and vexation cannot enter. Blessed be his name, that even death cannot part believers from union with Christ.…The Death of Sarah. (b. c. 1857.)Genesis 23:1-2 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleTHE DEATH OF SARAH. (B. C. 1857.) We have here, 1. Sarah's age, Genesis 23:1. Almost forty years before, she had called herself old, Genesis 18:12. Old people will die never the sooner, but may die the better, for recko…The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 23:1Genesis 23:1 · The Pulpit CommentaryAnd Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old (literally, and the lives of Sarah were an hundred and twenty and seven years); so that Isaac must have been thirty-seven, having been born in his mother's ninetie…The Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 23:1-20Genesis 23:1-20 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe death and burial of Sarah. I. THE DEATH OF SARAH. 1. The mournful event. The death of— 2. The attendant circumstances. Sarah died— II. THE BURIAL OF SARAH. 1. The days of mourning. "Abraham came to mourn and to weep…
commentaryMatthew Henry on Genesis 23:1-13The longest life must shortly come to a close. Blessed be God that there is a world where sin, death, vanity, and vexation cannot enter. Blessed be his name, that even death cannot part believers from union with Christ.…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Death of Sarah. (b. c. 1857.)THE DEATH OF SARAH. (B. C. 1857.) We have here, 1. Sarah's age, Genesis 23:1. Almost forty years before, she had called herself old, Genesis 18:12. Old people will die never the sooner, but may die the better, for recko…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 23:1-20The death and burial of Sarah. I. THE DEATH OF SARAH. 1. The mournful event. The death of— 2. The attendant circumstances. Sarah died— II. THE BURIAL OF SARAH. 1. The days of mourning. "Abraham came to mourn and to weep…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 23:1And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old (literally, and the lives of Sarah were an hundred and twenty and seven years); so that Isaac must have been thirty-seven, having been born in his mother's ninetie…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 23:2And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba—or city of Arba, Abraham having again removed thither after an absence of nearly forty years, during which interval Murphy thinks the reign of Arba the Anakite may have commenced, though K…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Cave of Machpelah. (b. c. 1857.)THE CAVE OF MACHPELAH. (B. C. 1857.) Here is, I. The humble request which Abraham made to his neighbours, the Hittites, for a burying-place among them, Genesis 23:3-4. It was strange he had this to do now; but we are to…Matthew HenrycommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 23:3And Abraham stood up—during the days of mourning he had been sitting on the ground; and now, his grief having moderated (Calvin), he goes out to the city gate—from before (literally, from over the face of) his dead,—"Sa…Joseph S. Exell and contributorscommentaryThe Pulpit Commentary on Genesis 23:4I am a stranger and a sojourner with you. Ger, one living out of his own country, and Thoshabh, one dwelling in a land in which he is not naturalized; advena et peregrinus (Vulgate); πάροικος καὶ παρ ἐπίδημος (LXX.)…Joseph S. Exell and contributors