Verse 2
2. Sarah died in Kirjath-arba To this place Abraham had again brought his family after his residence in Beer-sheba . Genesis 22:19. Kirjath-arba appears to have been the original name of Hebron, named after its founder or distinguished resident, Arba, a chief among the Anakim . Joshua 14:15. Mamre was in the immediate neighbourhood . See on Genesis 13:18.
In the land of Canaan As distinguished from the land of the Philistines . Genesis 21:34.
Came to mourn This implies that he was absent from Hebron when she died . His coming may have been from Beer-sheba, whither he had gone for some business with his distant herdsmen, (comp . Genesis 37:12-17,) or from some other similar field of his flocks; or perhaps from the neighbouring Mamre . Some suppose that the expression is only a formal mode of statement, not necessarily implying absence from home.
To mourn… to weep A great display of loud lamentation and bitter weeping would be made on occasion of the death of one so distinguished as Sarah. This is a part of Oriental reverence and respect for the dead. Comp. Genesis 50:1-4; Genesis 50:10.
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