Thematic Bible: Was the burial place of the patriarchs

Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall bring up my bones from here."

Verse Concepts

BonesFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsLove, And The World

ExhumationsGod VisitingPeople Bound By Oaths

And his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which field Abraham had bought as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite before Mamre.

Verse Concepts

empiresCavesTombs

Caves For BuryingThe Cave Of MachpelahCaves Used As Graves

Then he instructed them and said to them, "I am [about to be] gathered to my people. Bury me among my ancestors in the cave that [is] in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that [is] in the field of Machpelah that [is] before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife. And there I buried Leah--