Genesis 23:3 (BSB)

Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,

From Genesis 23. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Genesis 23:3

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Genesis 23:3: 3. And spake unto the sons of Heth . Moses is silent respecting the rite used by Abraham in the burial of the body of his wife: but he proceeds, at great length, to recite the purchasing of the sepulcher. For what reason he did this, we shall see presently, when I shall briefly allude to the custom of burial.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Genesis 23:3-15: Here is, I. The humble request which Abraham made to his neighbours, the Hittites, for a burying-place among them, Gen 23:3, Gen 23:4. It was strange he had this to do now; but we are to impute it rather to God's providence than to his improvidence, as appears Act 7:5, where it is said, God gave him no inheritance in Canaan.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Genesis 23:3: And Abraham stood up from before his dead,.... The corpse of Sarah, by which he sat pensive and mourning, perhaps upon the ground, as was the custom of mourners, Job 1:13; where having sat awhile, he rose up and went out of the tent, to provide for the funeral of his wife as became him: and spake unto the sons of Heth; the descendants of...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Genesis 23:3-20: PURCHASE OF A BURYING-PLACE. (Gen. 23:3-20) Abraham stood up, &c.--Eastern people are always provided with family burying-places; but Abraham's life of faith--his pilgrim state--had prevented him acquiring even so small a possession (Act 7:5). spake unto the sons of Heth--He bespoke their kind offices to aid him in obtaining possession of a cave that belonged to Ephron--a wealthy neighbor.