John Gill Commentary Genesis 50:13

John Gill Commentary

Genesis 50:13

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
John Gill
John Gill

John Gill Commentary

Genesis 50:13

1697–1771
Reformed Baptist
SCRIPTURE

"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." — Genesis 50:13 (ASV)

For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan That is, they took care that he was carried there, as he desired to be; for it cannot be thought that they carried him on their shoulders thither, in like manner as the devout men carried Stephen to his burial, (Acts 8:2)

and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah the very place where he chose to be buried, (Genesis 47:29Genesis 47:30) .