Gen 23:8-16, 1Ch 21:22, Jer 32:6-14 | TSK | STEP

Genesis 23:8-16

intreat.

much money. Heb. full money.

dwelt.Or, sitting (as the word frequently denotes) among the children of Heth, at the gate of the city, where all public business was transacted. Ephron, though a chief man, might have been personally unknown to Abraham; but now he answers for himself, making a free tender of the field and cave to Abraham, in the presence of all the people, which amounted to a legal conveyance to the Patriarch.

audience. Heb. ears. all that.

18; 34:20,24; Ru 4:1-4; Job 29:7; Isa 28:6

his.

24:10; Mt 9:1; Lu 2:3,4

my lord.

6; 2Sa 24:20-24; 1Ch 21:22-24; Isa 32:8

in the.

18; Nu 35:30; De 17:6; 19:15; Ru 4:1,4,9,11; Jer 32:7-12; Lu 19:24

7; 18:2; 19:1

I will.

14:22,23; 2Sa 24:24; Ac 20:35; Ro 13:8; Php 4:5-8; Col 4:5; Heb 13:5

is worth.Though the words "is worth" are not in the Text, yet they are clearly implied, to adapt the Hebrew to the English idiom. A shekel, according to the general opinion, was equal in value to about 2s. 6d. of our money, but according to Dr. Prideaux, 3s. English. In those early times, money was given in weight; for it is said (ver. 16.) that "Abraham weighed," {wayishkal,} the silver; and hence, we find that it was a certain weight which afterwards passed as a current coin; for the word shekel is not only used to denote a piece of sliver, but also to weigh.

shekels.

Ex 30:15; Eze 45:12

weighed.

43:21; Ezr 8:25-30; Job 28:15; Jer 32:9; Zec 11:12; Mt 7:12; Ro 13:8

Php 4:8; 1Th 4:6

four.

15; Ex 30:13; Eze 45:12

1 Chronicles 21:22

Grant. Heb. Give.

1Ki 21:2

thou shalt grant.

2Sa 24:21

that the plague.

Nu 16:48; 25:8

Jeremiah 32:6-14

Behold.

1Ki 14:5; Mr 11:2-6; 14:13-16

Anathoth.

1:1; 11:21; Jos 21:18,19

for.

Le 25:23,34,49; Nu 35:2; Ru 4:4-9

court.

2; 33:1

Anathoth.

7; 1Ki 2:26; 1Ch 6:60

Then I.

1Sa 9:16,17; 10:3-7; 1Ki 22:25; Zec 11:11; Joh 4:53; Ac 10:17-28

that this.That it was by His appointment that I was to make this purchase; the whole of which was designed as a symbolical act, to shew the people, that although Judah and Jerusalem should be desolated, and the inhabitants carried captive to Babylon, yet there should be a restoration, when lands and possessions should be again enjoyed by their legal owners, in the same manner as formerly. During the famine that prevailed in the city, Hanameel probably wanted money to purchase bread, and his field would not be thought of much value in such circumstances, which may account for the stipulated sum being so very small; for at 2s. 6d. the shekel, it would only amount to about 2£. 2s. 6d.

weighed.

Ge 23:15,16; 1Ki 20:39; Es 3:9; Isa 55:2; *margins

seventeen shekels of silver. or, seven shekels, and tenpieces of silver.

Ge 37:28; Ho 3:2; Zec 11:12,13

12,44; Isa 44:5

subscribed the evidence. Heb. wrote in the book.

Jos 18:9; Isa 30:8

and sealed.

De 32:34; Job 14:17; So 8:6; Da 8:26; Joh 3:33; 6:27; 2Co 1:22

Eph 1:13; 4:30; Re 7:2; 9:4

and took.

12,25,44; Ru 4:9-11; Isa 8:1,2