Then Abraham gave up the ghost
Very readily and cheerfully, without any previous sickness or
present pain, but through the decay of nature by reason of old
age, in a very easy quiet manner:
and died in a good old age, an old man;
for quantity, in those times few arriving to a greater; for
quality, not attended with those inconveniences and disadvantages
with which old age generally is, and therefore called evil:
and full [of years];
in the original it is only, "and full"; the Targum of Jonathan
adds, "of all good"; temporal and spiritual, with which he was
filled and satisfied; or he had had enough of life, and was
willing to depart, and was full of desires after another and
better world:
and was gathered to his people;
which is to be understood not of his interment, there being only
the body of Sarah in the sepulchre in which he was laid; but of
the admission of his soul into the heavenly state upon its
separation from the body, when it was at once associated with the
spirits of just men made perfect. The Arabic writers F6 say
that he died in the month of Nisan, others say Adar, in the year
of the world 3563; but, according to Bishop Usher, he died A. M.
2183, and before Christ 1821.