Genesis 25:9

Genesis 25:9

Abraham’s Death and Burial

7 This is the sum of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred and seventy-five years.

8 Then Abraham breathed his last and ^adied in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and ^bwas gathered to his people.

9 And ^ahis sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of ^bMachpelah, which is before Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite,

10 ^athe field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth. ^bThere Abraham was buried, and Sarah his wife.

11 And it came to pass, after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac dwelt at ^aBeer Lahai Roi.

The Families of Ishmael and Isaac

12 Now this is the ^agenealogy of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.

13 And ^athese were the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their generations: The firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

14 Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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Here is nothing recorded of the pomp or ceremony of his funeral; only we are told, his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him - It was the last office of respect they had to pay to their good father. Some distance there had formerly been between Isaac and Ishmael, but it seems either Abraham had himself brought them together while he lived, or at least his death reconciled them. They buried him, in his own burying - place which he had purchased and in which he had buried Sarah. Those that in life have been very dear to each other, may not only innocently, but laudably, desire to be buried together, that, in their deaths, they may not be divided, and in token of their hopes of rising together.

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