Adam Clarke Commentary - Genesis 23:4

Adam Clarke Commentary - Genesis 23:4 - 23:4

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Adam Clarke Commentary - Genesis 23:4 - 23:4

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

23:1 - 23:1
23:2 - 23:2
23:3 - 23:3
23:4 - 23:4
23:6 - 23:6
23:8 - 23:8
23:10 - 23:10
23:13 - 23:13
23:15 - 23:15
23:16 - 23:16
23:17 - 23:17
23:20 - 23:20

I am a stranger and a sojourner - It appears from Heb 11:13-16; 1Pe 2:11, that these words refer more to the state of his mind than of his body. He felt that he had no certain dwelling place, and was seeking by faith a city that had foundations.

Give me a possession of a burying place - It has been remarked that in different nations it was deemed ignominious to be buried in another’s ground; probably this prevailed in early times in the east, and it may be in reference to a sentiment of this kind that Abraham refuses to accept the offer of the children of Heth to bury in any of their sepulchers, and earnestly requests them to sell him one, that he might bury his wife in a place that he could claim as his own.