And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Yhudah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which YY did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.
Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my YY the king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
And the field of Ephron which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the borders round about, were made sure
And YY said unto Moshe, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the elohim of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Bethlehem. And Yoav and his men went all night, and they came to Hevron at break of day.