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Saying Goodbye to Sarah

Saying Goodbye to Sarah. Genesis 23.

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Saying Goodbye to Sarah

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  1. Saying Goodbye to Sarah Genesis 23

  2. According to Genesis 17:17. Abraham was 100 years old and Sarah was 90 when they received the promised child Isaac.Now Sarah died at the age of 127. Isaac would have been 37 years of age, and Ishmael would have reached 50. Sarah is the only woman in the Bible that has her age recorded.

  3. Sarah died at Hebron.

  4. The King James Version says that Abraham came to mourn Sarah. His Princess to the nations. We don’t know if Abraham was away, perhaps at work, or if he had to return from a trip of some kind.

  5. While Sarah had not been perfect, she was MUCH loved. She had faithfully left the land of Ur with Abraham. She had supported him, with the exception of dealing with Ishmael. He was her Father of Many Nations and she was his Princess.

  6. The next part of this chapter is a legal transaction for the ownership of a cave in which to bury Sarah and eventually other ancestors or Abraham. This cave would even be the burial sight for Abraham himself.

  7. Although God had promised the land of Canaan to Abraham, he had only sojourned in the land. He had never legally purchased any part of the land.So, who were the Hittites?

  8. “The Hittites (also Hethites) and Children of Heth, translating Hebrew חתי HTY and בני-חת BNY-HT are the second of the eleven Canaanite nations in the Hebrew Bible. They are purportedly descended from one Heth (Hebrew: חֵת,ModernḤetTiberianḤēṯ), a son of Canaan, son of Ham.”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_Hittites

  9. Abraham had picked out a burial place . He also knew who owned the sight. He started the transaction humbly and respectfully calling himself an outsider among them. The council responded that Abraham was a Prince of God to them.

  10. Ephron, the owner to the burial sight, offers to give the sight to Abraham. This was not a sincere offer. It was part of the negotiations. Abraham insisted on payment, and Ephron suggested what was apparently an outlandish price of 400 silver shekels.

  11. “But what is 400 silver shekels among us?”This was clever of Ephron because technically he had offered to “give” the sight away. Abraham wouldn’t want to haggle over the price in front of the council of Hittite rulers.

  12. Abraham bought the field, its cave, and the trees on the land. According to Hittite law, if Abraham had only bought the cave he would not have been under any obligation to the King as a citizen. Since he bought the field and the cave he was now obligated as a Hittite citizen.

  13. This land, in Canaan, near Jerusalem was now not only promised to Abraham by God, but it was also a legal earthly statement that he was putting his roots down here. He and his family owned the land and would be buried there.

  14. The Machpelah -Double CaveLater Abraham, Isaac, Rebekah, Jacob and Leah would be buried here, along with Joseph whose body was brought out of Egypt. There is also speculation that the bodies of his household were buried in the fields surrounding the cave.

  15. Abraham Finds a Bride for Isaac.

  16. Gen.24:2-4 Abraham spoke to the senior servant in his household, the one in charge of everything he had,

  17. "Put your hand under my thigh and swear by God, God of Heaven, God of Earth that you will not get a wife for my son from among the young women of the Canaanites here, but will go to the land of my birth and get a wife for my son Isaac."

  18. Remember the cutting of the covenant? Abraham was making his servant do an uncomfortable act emphasizing the importance of keeping the covenant promise alive in the marriage of Isaac, the promised seed.

  19. Abraham had his servant put his hand on the part of his body that signified the covenant cut and swear that he would find the right wife for Isaac!!Surely this made this servant keenly aware of the importance of the task he was being given!

  20. Abraham DID NOT want a Canaanite wife for Isaac.He sent for a wife from among his kin in Ur.

  21. Genesis 15:16 says, “16 In the fourth generation your descendants will come back here, for the sin of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure."

  22. I searched through Several commentaries, and the explanation for getting a wife from Abraham’s kin seems to be that the Amorites represented the Canaanite people. Abraham knew that they were cursed because of their sin.

  23. The seed of the son of promise could not perish after the sin of the Amorites was finally fulfilled. Several Commentaries talk about the Canaanites serving idols, but Abraham had left Ur. This was not a land that solely served the one true God either.

  24. Abraham insisted on two things from his servant.1. Don’t get a Canaanite wife.2. Do Not take Isaac bake to Ur.Abraham was just as sure that God would provide the right wife for Isaac as he had been sure that God would raise him from the dead if he sacrificed Isaac.

  25. What a plan! After all, Abraham knew he had a covenant!Just a thought…Abraham sent his servant to prepare a bride for his son.Father God sent Holy Spirit to prepare a bride for His son. What a planner!

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