Tradition holds the cave contains the graves of Abraham and Sarah, venerated across Judaism, Christianity and Islam alike.
Source The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)Anonymous (multiple authors)
This source names Herod the Great directly: "Isaac and Rebekah, and Jacob and Leah. Herod the Great built the massive enclosure that still enshrines the site, held the second holiest place in Judaism after the Temple Mount and venerated across..."
Source The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)Anonymous (multiple authors)
This source names Hittites directly: "Hebron holds the Cave of the Patriarchs, Ma'arat HaMachpelah in Hebrew and Al-Haram al-Ibrahimi (the Ibrahimi Mosque) to Muslims, the double cave that Genesis 23 describes Abraham purchasing from..."
Source The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)Anonymous (multiple authors)
Isaac, Figures This source names Isaac directly: "the graves of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, and Jacob and Leah."
Source The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)Anonymous (multiple authors)
This source names Ishmael directly: "the Jewish and Christian line and to Ishmael in the Islamic one."
Source The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)Anonymous (multiple authors)
Jacob, Figures This source names Jacob directly: "and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, and Jacob and Leah."
Source The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)Anonymous (multiple authors)
Sarah, Figures This source names Sarah directly: "contains the graves of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, and Jacob and Leah."
Source The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)Anonymous (multiple authors)
This source names Hebron directly: "the northern West Bank, a hospital in Hebron and, since 2016, a hospital in Gaza City that grew out of a clinic opened there in 1992, treating over 135,000 patients a year irrespective of race..."
Source St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group: Charity Commission Filed Accounts, Year Ended 31 December 2024St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group
Holds the Cave of the Patriarchs, the double cave Genesis 23 describes Abraham purchasing from Ephron the Hittite.
Source The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)Anonymous (multiple authors)
This source names Hebron directly: "reading the violence in Jerusalem, Hebron and Safed as the year the modern Arab-Israeli conflict took its lasting shape."
Source Divinity Atlas Original Articles, Second Edition