Identifier: pictorialbibleco00cobb (find matches)
Title: The pictorial Bible and commentator: presenting the great truths of God's word in the most simple, pleasing, affectionate, and instructive manner
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Cobbin, Ingram, 1777-1851 March, Daniel, 1816-1909 Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), 1820-1893 Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911
Subjects: Jesus Christ John, the Apostle, Saint Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia (etc.) Bradley, Garretson & co. Columbus, Ohio (etc.) W. Garretson & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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AND Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these-J~±- were the years of the life of Sarah. And Sarah died, and we readthat Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her: for hewas probably at a distance, feeding his flocks, when she died. It is veryaffecting to lose our friends. And no doubt Isaac wept for Sarah, too.And would not you, if you were to lose your dear mother from whom youhave received so much kindness ? But if we lose our friends, and they andAve love Jesus Christ, we may hope to meet again in a better world. We are told that Abraham bought a burying-place of one whose namewas Ephron, and he paid for it at the gates of the city called Mamre, after-wards known by the name Hebron. The gates or ways into the city, 72 Bible and Commentator, like Temple-Bar in London and many other archways in other places, had,it is thought, rooms over them, where the chief men settled all matters ofright among the people. Here Abraham agreed for the price, and paid the
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MOSQUE AT HEBRON, HAVING THE CAVE OF MACHPELAH UNDERNEATH. money for the burying-place. And Abraham weighed to Ephron thesilver he was to pay; for there were no coins in general circulation then,and when a purchase was made the silver or gold was weighed out in theirbalances, a pound of silver having a fixed value. The price which Abra-ham paid was four hundred shekels of silver. A shekel of silver was worthabout fifty-six cents, and the whole price paid by Abraham for this fieldand cave was about two hundred and forty dollars. But money was worthso much more then than it is now, that that sum would be equal to aboutfifteen hundred dollars now. Abraham buried his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah beforeMamre, in the land of Canaan. It was usual in those times and in thatcountry to bury people in caves, which were like little chambers cut out ofthe side of some hill, or vaults bricked or arched over; and here the wholeof a family would lie together. This is the house appointed

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