So Sarah died in (A)Kirjath Arba (that is, (B)Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

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19 And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

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18 (A)Then Abram moved his tent, and went and (B)dwelt by [a]the terebinth trees of Mamre, (C)which are in Hebron, and built an (D)altar there to the Lord.

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  1. Genesis 13:18 Heb. Alon Mamre

57 And (A)to the sons of Aaron they gave one of the cities of refuge, Hebron; also Libnah with its common-lands, Jattir, Eshtemoa with its common-lands,

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10 Then Judah [a]went against the Canaanites who dwelt in (A)Hebron. (Now the name of Hebron was formerly (B)Kirjath Arba.) And they killed Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai.

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  1. Judges 1:10 attacked

And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and (A)made great lamentation over him.

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31 (A)Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, [a]saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”

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  1. John 11:31 NU supposing that she was going

16 “Son of man, behold, I take away from you the desire of your eyes with one stroke; yet you shall (A)neither mourn nor weep, nor shall your tears run down. 17 Sigh in silence, (B)make no mourning for the dead; (C)bind your turban on your head, and (D)put your sandals on your feet; (E)do not cover your [a]lips, and do not eat man’s bread of sorrow.

18 So I spoke to the people in the morning, and at evening my wife died; and the next morning I did as I was commanded.

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  1. Ezekiel 24:17 Lit. moustache

18 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

(A)“They shall not lament for him,
Saying, (B)‘Alas, my brother!’ or ‘Alas, my sister!’
They shall not lament for him,
Saying, ‘Alas, master!’ or ‘Alas, his glory!’

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10 Weep not for (A)the dead, nor bemoan him;
Weep bitterly for him (B)who goes away,
For he shall return no more,
Nor see his native country.

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25 Jeremiah also (A)lamented for (B)Josiah. And to this day (C)all the singing men and the singing women speak of Josiah in their lamentations. (D)They made it a custom in Israel; and indeed they are written in the Laments.

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In Hebron he reigned over Judah (A)seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

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(A)Therefore all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, (B)and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron (C)before the Lord. And they anointed David king over Israel.

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11 And (A)the [a]time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

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  1. 2 Samuel 2:11 Lit. number of days

The Song of the Bow

17 Then David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son,

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12 And they (A)mourned and wept and (B)fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son, for the (C)people of the Lord and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

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Saul Consults a Medium(A)

Now (B)Samuel had died, and all Israel had lamented for him and buried him in (C)Ramah, in his own city. And Saul had put (D)the mediums and the spiritists out of the land.

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31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. Now therefore, send and bring him to me, for he [a]shall surely die.”

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  1. 1 Samuel 20:31 Lit. is a son of death

So they appointed (A)Kedesh in Galilee, in the mountains of Naphtali, (B)Shechem in the mountains of Ephraim, and (C)Kirjath Arba (which is Hebron) in (D)the mountains of Judah.

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14 (A)Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he (B)wholly followed the Lord God of Israel. 15 And (C)the name of Hebron formerly was Kirjath Arba (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim).

(D)Then the land had rest from war.

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39 And he took it and its king and all its cities; they struck them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed all the people who were in it. He left none remaining; as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, as he had done also to Libnah and its king.

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And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab (A)thirty days. So the days of weeping and mourning for Moses ended.

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29 Now when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, all the house of Israel mourned for Aaron (A)thirty days.

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22 And they went up through the South and came to (A)Hebron; Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of (B)Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

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