37 Please let your servant turn back again, that I may die in my own city, near the grave of my father and mother. But here is your servant (A)Chimham; let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what seems good to you.”

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17 And they departed and dwelt in the habitation of (A)Chimham, which is near Bethlehem, as they went on their way to (B)Egypt,

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“But show kindness to the sons of (A)Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who (B)eat at your table, for so (C)they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

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The Quarrel About the King

40 Now the king went on to Gilgal, and [a]Chimham went on with him. And all the people of Judah escorted the king, and also half the people of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 19:40 MT Chimhan

14 (A)knowing that shortly I must [a]put off my tent, just as (B)our Lord Jesus Christ showed me.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Peter 1:14 Die and leave this body

Paul’s Valedictory

For (A)I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of (B)my departure is at hand.

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29 “Lord, (A)now You are letting Your servant depart in peace,
According to Your word;
30 For my eyes (B)have seen Your salvation

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22 but you came back, ate bread, and drank water in the (A)place of which the Lord said to you, “Eat no bread and drink no water,” your corpse shall not come to the tomb of your fathers.’ ”

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14 “Behold, this day (A)I[a] am going the way of all the earth. And you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that (B)not one thing has failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spoke concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one word of them has failed.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 23:14 I am going to die.

13 For (A)his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre, which Abraham (B)bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as property for a burial place.

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Jacob’s Death and Burial

29 Then he charged them and said to them: “I (A)am to be gathered to my people; (B)bury me with my fathers (C)in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, (D)which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burial place. 31 (E)There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, (F)there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah.

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21 Then Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am dying, but (A)God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.

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30 but (A)let me lie with my fathers; you shall carry me out of Egypt and (B)bury me in their burial place.”

And he said, “I will do as you have said.”

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