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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 23:1

This is the peculiar honour of Sarah the mother of the faithful, 1 Peter 3:6, to have the years of her life numbered in Scripture. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 23:1-2

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 23:1. The years of the life of Sarah.] Heb. pl. lives. Probably used as the plural of eminence. Some of the Jewish expositors refer the expression to three stages in the life of Sarah.—Genesis 23:2. Hebron.] Same as Kirjath-Arba. “Here Abraham had resided, and, having been absent some forty years, had returned. This was a most ancient city, the earliest seat of civilised life, having been built seven years before Zoan, the oldest capital of Egypt (Numbers 13:22). It is... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 23:1-20

Chapter 23And so Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years old. And she died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah ( Genesis 23:1-2 ),Now evidently Abraham had been away with the flocks or something when Sarah died and he wasn't at her side at her death, which is a sad thing indeed. He came to mourn,and to weep for her. And he stood up from before his dead, and he spake to the sons of Heth, saying, I am a stranger and a sojourner with... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 23:1-20

Genesis 23:4. A burying-place. Abraham believed in a future state; therefore he, as well as the other patriarchs, buried his dead. Joseph, actuated by this belief, gave commandment for his bones to be brought out of Egypt. It is the most decent way of disposing of the dead, that the dust may return to its original dust. The practice of burning the dead, and depositing the ashes in an urn, with coins and trinkets, is of great antiquity, and there are few of the ancient nations who did not... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 23:1-2

Genesis 23:1-2Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for herAbraham in the house of mourningWhat lessons would such a man as Abraham learn in this house of mourning?I. THAT IN VIEW OF THE AWFUL FACT OF DEATH THE LITTLENESS OF HUMAN LIFE IS SEEN. II. TO REALIZE THE FACT OF HIS OWN MORTALITY. “I may be the next to go.” III. TO FEEL THAT THERE IS A LIFE BEYOND. IV. THE SACREDNESS OF SORROW FOR THE DEAD. (T. H. Leale.)Mourning for the departedThe true mourning a sanctified feeling of death.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 23:1

Gen 23:1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: [these were] the years of the life of Sarah. Ver. 1. And Sarah was a hundred, &c. ] It is observed by divines, that God thought not fit to tell us of the length of the life of any woman in Scripture, but Sarah, to humble that sex, that because they were first in bringing in death, deserved not to have the continuance of their lives recorded by God’s pen. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 23:1

am 2144, bc 1860 Sarah: It is worthy of remark, that Sarah is the only woman whose age, death, and burial are distinctly noted in the Sacred writings. an: Genesis 17:17 Reciprocal: Genesis 25:1 - General read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 23:1

1. A hundred and seven and twenty The only woman whose age is given in the Bible is this mother of the chosen seed . Sixty-two years had passed since she left Haran to wander with her husband she knew not whither, and thirty-seven years since Isaac’s birth . read more