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23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor,
Abraham’s brother.
24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah,
and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
Genesis -23
Abraham Buys a Burial Ground for Sarah
1 And Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years old: these
were the years of the life of Sarah.
2 And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of
Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
She died in the land of Canaan, where she had been above sixty years a sojourner.
3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the
sons of Heth, saying,
Here is, the humble request which Abraham made to his neighbours, the Hittites, for a burying-place among them, Ge 23:3, 4. It was strange he had this to do now; but we are to impute it rather to God's providence than to his improvidence, as appears Ac 7:5, where it is said, God gave him no inheritance in Canaan. It were well if all those who take care to provide burying-places for their bodies after death were as careful to provide a resting-place for their souls. Observe here,
1 The convenient diversion which this affair gave, for the present, to Abraham's grief: He stood up from before his dead. Those that find themselves in danger of over-grieving for their dead relations, and are entering into that temptation, must take heed of poring upon their loss and sitting alone and melancholy. There must be a time of standing up from before their dead, and ceasing to mourn. For, thanks be to God, our happiness is not bound up in the life of any creature. Care of the funeral may, as here, be improved to divert grief for the death at first, when it is most in danger of tyrannizing. Weeping must not hinder sowing.