eSee ch. 23:16-18
Genesis 23:19
19After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.Genesis 25:9
9Isaac and Ishmael ahis sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, east of Mamre,Genesis 49:29-32
29Then he commanded them and said to them, “I am to be bgathered to my people; cbury me with my fathers din the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30in the cave that is in the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, ewhich Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place. 31 fThere they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There gthey buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah— 32the field and the cave that is in it were bought from the Hittites.”Genesis 50:5-14
5‘My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die: in my tomb hthat I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.” Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return.’” 6And Pharaoh answered, “Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear.” 7So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, 8as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left iin the land of Goshen. 9And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company. 10When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, jthey lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he kmade a mourning for his father seven days. 11When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians.” Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim; ▼▼ Abel-mizraim means mourning (or meadow) of Egypt
it is beyond the Jordan. 12Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them, 13for mhis sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham nbought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place. 14After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father. Genesis 50:25
25Then oJoseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”2 Samuel 19:37
37Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. But here is your servant pChimham. Let him go over with my lord the king, and do for him whatever seems good to you.”1 Kings 13:22
22but have come back and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to you, “Eat no bread and drink no water,” your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.’”Nehemiah 2:3
3I said to the king, q“Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, rwhen the city, the place of my fathers’ graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”Nehemiah 2:5
5And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ graves, that I may rebuild it.”
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