Objects
cave
Natural hollow used for shelter or burial; in Genesis 50 Jacob is buried in the cave at Machpelah.
Category
Objects
First mention
Genesis 19:30
Tags
3
Scripture references
- Genesis 19:30
After leaving Zoar Lot settled in the hill country with his two daughters, for he dared not stay in Zoar. He lived in a cave, he and his two daughters.
- Genesis 23:19
And after this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre -- now Hebron -- in the country of Canaan.
- Genesis 25:9
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah facing Mamre, in the field of Ephron the Hittite son of Zohar.
- Genesis 49:29
Then he gave them these instructions, 'I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my ancestors, in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
- Genesis 49:30
in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre, in Canaan, which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site of his own.
- Genesis 50:13
His sons carried him to Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre, which Abraham had bought from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site of his own.