Thematic Bible: Was the burial place of the patriarchs

And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

Verse Concepts

BonesFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsLove, And The World

ExhumationsGod VisitingPeople Bound By Oaths

for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

Verse Concepts

empiresCavesTombs

Caves For BuryingThe Cave Of MachpelahCaves Used As Graves

And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place. there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah: