Genesis 23:4 KJV
I 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.
Scofield Notes
- buryingplaceCf. Gen 33:19; Gen 50:13; Josh 24:32; Acts 7:15; Acts 7:16. A discrepancy in these statements has been fancied. It disappears entirely before the natural...
Matthew Henry
- The death of Sarah, Abraham applies for a burying-placeThe 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,...
Thompson Chains
- SojournersSee the chain from Genesis 12:10 · 11 links
- PilgrimageSee the chain from Genesis 47:9 · 5 links
- Burying-placesSee the chain from Genesis 47:30 · 5 links
Cross References
- Genesis 17:8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
- 1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
- Hebrews 11:9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
- Genesis 49:30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
- Leviticus 25:23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
- Psalms 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
- Psalms 119:19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
- Acts 7:5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.
- Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
- Genesis 47:9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
- Genesis 50:13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
- Job 30:23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
- Psalms 105:12–13 When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it. …
- Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
- Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
- Hebrews 11:13–16 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. …
- 1 Peter 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible1986–1859 BC · Sarah
Strong’s Numbers
- I am a stranger גֵּר gêr
- and a sojourner תּוֹשָׁב tôwshâb
- with you: give נָתַן nâthan
- me a possession אֲחֻזָּה ʼăchuzzâh
- of a buryingplace קֶבֶר qeber
- with you, that I may bury קָבַר qâbar
- my dead מוּת mûwth
- out of my sight פָּנִים pânîym
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