Genesis 23:2

Modern English Version

Then Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

Cross References

Genesis 13:18

So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar to the Lord there.

Genesis 23:1

Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years. These were the years of the life of Sarah.

Genesis 23:19

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

Genesis 24:67

So Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah; and he took Rebekah and she became his wife and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Genesis 27:41

So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Genesis 35:27

Jacob came back to Isaac his father in Mamre of Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.

Genesis 37:14

Israel said to him, “Please go and see if it is well with your brothers and well with the flocks, and bring back word to me.” So he sent him out of the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

Genesis 50:1

Then Joseph fell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him.

Genesis 50:10

When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they mourned with a great and very sorrowful lamentation. He observed seven days of mourning for his father.

2 Samuel 1:12

They mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul, Jonathan his son, the people of the Lord, and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

2 Samuel 1:17

Then David recited this lament over Saul and Jonathan his son,

2 Samuel 2:11

The length of time during which David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

2 Samuel 5:3

So all of the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them before the Lord at Hebron. They anointed David king over Israel.

2 Samuel 5:5

He reigned over Judah from Hebron for seven years and six months, and he reigned over all of Israel and Judah from Jerusalem for thirty-three years.

1 Chronicles 6:57

To the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah with the cities of refuge: Hebron and Libnah with its outlands, Jattir and Eshtemoa with their outlands,

2 Chronicles 35:25

And Jeremiah composed a dirge for Josiah, and all the male and female singers speak of Josiah in their laments to this day; and they made them a statute in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.

Nehemiah 11:25

For the villages located by their fields, some of the people of Judah lived at Kiriath-arba and its villages, others at Dibon and its villages, or at Jekabzeel and its villages,

Jeremiah 22:10

Do not weep for the dead nor bemoan him, but weep constantly for him who goes away; for he will return no more nor see his native country.

Jeremiah 22:18

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: They will not lament for him, saying, “Ah, my brother!” or, “Ah, sister!” They will not lament for him, saying, “Ah, lord!” or, “Ah, his glory!”

Numbers 13:22

They went up by the Negev and came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the sons of Anak, were (now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt).

Numbers 20:29

When all the assembly saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, all the house of Israel.

John 11:31

When the Jews who were with Mary in the house, comforting her, saw that she quickly rose up and went out, they followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”

John 11:35

Jesus wept.

Acts 8:2

Devout men carried Stephen to his burial and made great lamentation over him.

Deuteronomy 34:8

The Israelites wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.

Joshua 10:39

They captured it, its king, and all its surrounding towns and struck them with the edge of the sword. They destroyed all who lived in them, and no survivor was left. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king as they had done to Libnah and its king.

Joshua 15:13

According to the word of the Lord to Joshua, Caleb son of Jephunneh was given an allotment among the tribe of Judah: Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron). Arba was the father of Anak.

Joshua 15:54

Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior: nine cities with their villages;

Joshua 20:7

They selected Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

Joshua 21:11

They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba was the father of Anak), which is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, and the grazing lands around it.

Judges 1:10

Judah went against the Canaanites living in Hebron (previously the name of Hebron was Kiriath-arba) and they struck down Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

1 Samuel 20:31

For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Now, send and bring him to me, for he is a dead man.”

1 Samuel 25:1

Now Samuel died. And all the Israelites gathered together and mourned him, and they buried him at his home in Ramah. Then David arose and went down to the Wilderness of Paran.

1 Samuel 28:3

Now Samuel died and all Israel mourned him, and they buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had removed the mediums and the necromancers from the land.