Thematic Bible: Was the burial place of the patriarchs

Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely take care of you, and you shall carry my bones up from here.”

Verse Concepts

BonesFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsLove, And The World

ExhumationsGod VisitingPeople Bound By Oaths

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

Verse Concepts

empiresCavesTombs

Caves For BuryingThe Cave Of MachpelahCaves Used As Graves

Then he charged them and said to them, "I am about to be gathered to 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 along with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a burial site. "There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah, there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there I buried Leah--