Verse 4

I am a straunger and a foriner amongest you: geue me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my corse out of my sight.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 17:8 : 8 And I wyll geue vnto thee and to thy seede after thee, the lande wherein thou art a strauger euen al the lande of Chanaan, for an euerlastyng possession, and wyll be their God.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we be but straungers before thee, and soiourners, as were al our fathers: Our dayes on the earth also are but as a shadowe, and there is none abiding.
  • Heb 11:9 : 9 By fayth he remoued into the lande of promise, as into a straunge countrey, whe he had dwelt in tabernacles, with Isaac and Iacob, heires with hym of the same promise:
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Heare my prayer O God, and geue eares to my crying, holde not thy peace at my teares: for I am a strauger with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers were.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a straunger vpon earth: hyde not thy commaundementes from me.
  • Lev 25:23 : 23 The lande shall not be solde to waste: for the lande is myne, & ye be but staungers and soiourners with me.
  • Gen 49:30 : 30 In the caue that is in the fielde of Machpelah, which is before Mamre in the lande of Chanaan, which Abraham bought with the fielde of Ephron the Hethite for a possession to bury in.
  • Acts 7:5 : 5 And he gaue hym none inheritaunce in it, no not the breadth of a foote: and promised that he woulde geue it to hym to possesse, and to his seede after hym, when as yet he had no chylde.
  • Gen 50:13 : 13 For his sonnes caryed hym into the lande of Chanaan, & buryed hym in the caue of the fielde Machpelah, whiche fielde Abraham bought to be a place to bury in of Ephron the Hethite, before Mamre.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 Iacob sayd vnto Pharao, The dayes of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirtie yeres: Fewe and euill haue the dayes of my life ben, and haue not attayned vnto the yeres of ye lyfe of my fathers, in the dayes of theyr pilgrimage.
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 In the sweatte of thy face shalt thou eate thy breade, tyll thou be turned agayne into the ground, for out of it wast thou taken: For dust thou art, and into dust shalt thou be turned agayne.
  • Job 30:23 : 23 Sure I am that thou wilt bryng me vnto death, euen to the lodging that is due vnto all men liuing.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man beget a hundred children, and lyue many yeres, so that his dayes are many in number, and yet can not enioy his good, neither be buryed: as for him I say, that vntymely birth is better then he.
  • Eccl 12:5 : 5 When men shall feare in hye places, and be afraide in the streetes, when the Almonde tree shall florishe and be laden with the grashopper, and when all lust shal passe: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streetes.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 Then shall the dust be turned agayne vnto earth from whence it came, and the spirite shall returne vnto God who gaue it.
  • Ps 105:12-13 : 12 When they were a fewe men in number, and had ben straungers but a litle whyle in it: 13 and when they went from one nation to another, from one kingdome to another people.
  • Heb 11:13-16 : 13 These all dyed according to fayth, not hauing receaued the promises, but seing them a farre of, and beleuyng, and salutyng, and confessyng that they were straungers and pilgrimes on the earth. 14 For they that saye suche thynges, declare that they seke a countrey. 15 Also yf they had ben myndfull of that countrey from whence they came out, they had leasure to haue returned: 16 But nowe they desire a better, that is, a heauenly. Wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a citie.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dearely beloued, I beseche you as straugers and pilgrimes, abstaine from fleshly lustes, whiche fight agaynst the soule: