Genesis 23:19

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah to the east of Mamre, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan.

Cross References

Genesis 23:18

As a possession to Abraham in the presence of the Hittites, before all who went in at his city gate.

Genesis 23:20

The field and the cave in it were conveyed to Abraham for a permanent burial place by the sons of Heth.

Genesis 3:19

In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return.

Genesis 37:14

And [Jacob] said to him, Go, I pray you, see whether everything is all right with your brothers and with the flock; then come back and bring me word. So he sent him out of the Hebron Valley, and he came to Shechem.

Genesis 47:30

But let me lie with my fathers; you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burying place. And [Joseph] said, I will do as you have directed.

Genesis 50:13

For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre, which Abraham bought, along with the field, for a possession as a burying place from Ephron the Hittite.

Genesis 50:25

And Joseph took an oath from the sons of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and you will carry up my bones from here.

Job 30:23

For I know that You will bring me to death and to the house [of meeting] appointed for all the living.

Ecclesiastes 12:5

Also when [the old] are afraid of danger from that which is high, and fears are in the way, and the almond tree [their white hair] blooms, and the grasshopper [a little thing] is a burden, and desire and appetite fail, because man goes to his everlasting home and the mourners go about the streets or marketplaces. [Job 17:13.]

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Then shall the dust [out of which God made man's body] return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God Who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his life is not filled with good, and also he is given no burial [honors nor is laid to rest in the sepulcher of his fathers], I say that [he who had] an untimely birth [resulting in death] is better off than he, [Job 3:16.]