Genesis 23:2

23:2 Then she ¹  died in Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. ² 

Numbers 13:22

13:22 When they went up through the Negev, they ³  came ⁴  to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, ⁵  descendants of Anak, were living. (Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan ⁶  in Egypt.)

Joshua 14:14

14:14 So Hebron remains the assigned land of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this very day ⁷  because he remained loyal to the Lord God of Israel.

Joshua 20:7

20:7 So they selected ⁸  Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

Joshua 20:2

20:2 “Have the Israelites select ⁹  the cities of refuge ¹⁰  that I told you about through Moses.

Joshua 2:11

2:11 When we heard the news we lost our courage and no one could even breathe for fear of you. ¹¹  For the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on earth below!

[23:2]  ¹ tn Heb “Sarah.” The proper name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“she”) for stylistic reasons.

[23:2]  ² sn Mourn…weep. The description here is of standard mourning rites (see K. A. Kitchen, NBD³ 149-50). They would have been carried out in the presence of the corpse, probably in Sarah’s tent. So Abraham came in to mourn; then he rose up to go and bury his dead (v. 3).

[13:22]  ³ tc The MT has the singular, but the ancient versions and Smr have the plural.

[13:22]  ⁴ tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive is here subordinated to the following clause. The first verse gave the account of their journey over the whole land; this section focuses on what happened in the area of Hebron, which would be the basis for the false report.

[13:22]  ⁵ sn These names are thought to be three clans that were in the Hebron area (see Josh 15:14; Judg 1:20). To call them descendants of Anak is usually taken to mean that they were large or tall people (2 Sam 21:18-22). They were ultimately driven out by Caleb.

[13:22]  ⁶ sn The text now provides a brief historical aside for the readers. Zoan was probably the city of Tanis, although that is disputed today by some scholars. It was known in Egypt in the New Kingdom as “the fields of Tanis,” which corresponded to the “fields of Zoar” in the Hebrew Bible (Ps 78:12, 43).

[14:14]  ⁷ tn Heb “Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh for an inheritance to this day.”

[20:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “set apart.”

[20:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘Set aside for yourselves.’”

[20:2]  ¹⁰ tn Or “asylum.”

[2:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “And we heard and our heart[s] melted and there remained no longer breath in a man because of you.”