Genesis 23
Treated in 5 passages across the library.
The verses these writers stop at
- 23:4 "I am a foreigner living among you as a settler. Grant me a piece of land of my own for a grave here, so that I can carry my dead away and bury her." 2
- 23:7 Then Abraham stood and bowed low before the people of the land, the Hittites. 2
- 23:3 Then Abraham rose from beside his dead wife and spoke to the Hittites. 1
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Where it is preached
- Practical Religion ·
Eternity! cites Gen. xxiii. 4
…a day came when even Abraham, her husband, said, "Let me bury my dead out of my sight." (Gen. xxiii. 4.)—Strength of body is only temporal. David was once a mighty man of valour, the slayer of…
- All Things for Good ·
Exhortations to those who are called cites Gen. xxiii. 7
…civility, but refines it. “Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the children of Heth” (Gen. xxiii. 7). Though they were of a heathenish race, yet Abraham gave them a civil respect. St. Paul…
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections ·
VI. Gracious affections are attended with evangelical humiliation cites Gen. 23:7
…their sins. Thus Abraham, the great pattern of believers, honored the children of Heth: Gen. 23:7, “Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land.” This was a remarkable…
- A Body of Divinity ·
Man's Chief End cites Gen 23:3
…There is a twofold worship: (1.) A civil reverence which we give to persons of honour. Gen 23:3. ‘Abraham stood up and bowed himself to the children of Heth.’ Piety is no enemy to…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 3, Chapter 25 — Of the Last Resurrection cites Gen. 23:4
…help to their faith. Nor would Abraham have been so anxious about the burial of his wife (Gen. 23:4, 19), had not the religious views and something superior to any worldly advantage, been…