Places
Machpelah
Machpelah is the field and cave Abraham purchases from Ephron; Abraham and Sarah are buried there, and Isaac and Ishmael bury Abraham there.
Category
Places
First mention
Genesis 23:9
Tags
2
Genesis 23, 25Burial site
Scripture references
- Genesis 23:9
let me have the cave he owns at Machpelah...
- Genesis 23:17
Thus Ephron's field at Machpelah ... passed into Abraham's possession.
- Genesis 23:19
Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field of Machpelah...
- Genesis 25:9
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah...