Places
Hebron
Hebron (also called Kiriath-Arba) is where Sarah dies and is buried at Machpelah, where Abram settled by Mamre, and where Jacob rejoins Isaac before Isaac's death in Genesis 35.
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Places
First mention
Genesis 13:18
Tags
2
Genesis 13, 23Canaan
Scripture references
- Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his tent and went to settle at the Oak of Mamre, at Hebron, and there he built an altar to Yahweh.
- Genesis 23:2
She died at Kiriath-Arba -- now Hebron -- in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 23:19
Abraham buried his wife Sarah ... facing Mamre -- now Hebron -- in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 35:27
Jacob came home to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-Arba -- now Hebron -- where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
- Genesis 37:14
He sent him from the valley of Hebron, and Joseph arrived at Shechem.