Abraham's wife Sarah passes away in this chapter. Abraham needs a place to bury her, and he had to ask the people in the land of Canaan for a place to bury her. He was travelling through there land when the Lord took Sarah. Sideline: If you want to know the timeline of God's prophecy, pay attention to what is happening to Israel. ________________________________________ 1 ¶ And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old (127 years old): these were the years of the life of Sarah. Sarah lived to be 127 years old; Abraham was 10 years older, about 137. Sarah is the only woman in the bible whose age is given at her death. She is the only woman in the bible who is given as an example as of what a woman should be, how a woman should behave. She is a great lady even with all her faults. 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. This is still there today. 3 ¶ And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying, 4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. Remember this is not Abraham's land yet. God said this land was going to be owned by his descendants. He is living among these people, his wife dies, and now he needs a place to bury her. 5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him, 6 Hear us, my lord: you are a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchers bury your dead; none of us shall withhold from you his sepulcher, but that you may bury your dead.
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