Acts 7:16
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| Overview - Acts 7 | |
| 1 | Stephen, permitted to answer to the accusation of blasphemy, |
| 2 | shows that Abraham worshipped God rightly, and how God chose the fathers, |
| 20 | before Moses was born, and before the tabernacle and temple were built; |
| 37 | that Moses himself witnessed of Christ; |
| 44 | and that all outward ceremonies were ordained, according to the heavenly pattern, to last but for a time; |
| 51 | reprehending their rebellion, and murdering of Christ, the Just One, whom the prophets foretold should come into the world. |
| 54 | Whereupon they stone him to death, who commends his soul to Jesus, and humbly prays for them. |
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Acts 7:16 (King James Version)
And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.
- were
- Of the two burying-places of the patriarchs, one was at Hebron, the cave and field which Abraham purchased of Ephron the Hittite, ( Genesis 23:16 ,etc.); the other in Sychem, which Jacob (not Abraham) bought of the sons of Emmor, ( Genesis 33:19 .)To remove this glaring discrepancy, Markland interprets [para
,] from, as it frequently - signifies with a genitive, and renders, "And were carried over to Sychem; and afterwards from among the descendants of Emmor, the father, or son, of Sychem, they were laid in the sepulchre which Abraham bought for a sum of money." This agrees with the account which Josephus gives of the patriarchs; that they were carried out of Egypt, first to Sychem, and then to Hebron, where they were buried. Exodus 13:19 ; Joshua 24:32
- the sepulchre
- Genesis 33:9-20 ; 35:19 49:29-32
- Emmor
- Genesis 34:2-31
- Hamor, Shechem