Genesis 23:4

Holman Christian Standard Bible

“I am a foreign resident among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

Cross References

Genesis 17:8

And to you and your future offspring I will give the land where you are residing — all the land of Canaan — as an eternal possession, and I will be their God.”

Genesis 23:5

The Hittites replied to Abraham,

Genesis 3:19

You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust.”

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “My pilgrimage has lasted 130 years. My years have been few and hard, and they have not surpassed the years of my fathers during their pilgrimages.”

Genesis 49:30

The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.

Genesis 50:13

They carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave at Machpelah in the field near Mamre, which Abraham had purchased as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we live before You as foreigners and temporary residents in Your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Job 30:23

Yes, I know that You will lead me to death — the place appointed for all who live.

Psalm 119:19

I am a stranger on earth; do not hide Your commands from me.

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, Lord, and listen to my cry for help; do not be silent at my tears. For I am a foreigner residing with You, a temporary resident like all my fathers.

Exodus 2:22

She gave birth to a son whom he named Gershom, for he said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”

Ecclesiastes 12:5

Also, they are afraid of heights and dangers on the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry has no effect; for man is headed to his eternal home, and mourners will walk around in the street;

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Leviticus 25:23

“The land is not to be permanently sold because it is Mine, and you are only foreigners and temporary residents on My land.

Acts 7:16

were carried back to Shechem, and were placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

Acts 7:5

He didn’t give him an inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, but He promised to give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him, even though he was childless.

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, coheirs of the same promise.

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you.