30 Bible Verses about Burying places

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Deuteronomy 34:6

And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor, but no man knows of his sepulcher to this day.

John 19:41

Now a garden was in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden a new sepulcher in which no man was yet laid.

2 Kings 21:26

And he was buried in his sepulcher in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

1 Kings 13:31

And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulcher in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.

Genesis 23:19

And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

So I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were praised in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity.

2 Kings 9:28

And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulcher with his fathers in the city of David.

Ezekiel 39:11

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel: the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea. And it shall stop those who pass through, and they shall bury Gog and all his

Jeremiah 7:32

Therefore, behold, the days come, says LORD, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter. For they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place [to bury].

Hosea 9:6

For, lo, they have gone away from destruction, [yet] Egypt shall gather them up. Memphis shall bury them. Their pleasant things of silver, nettles shall possess them. Thorns shall be in their tents.

Mark 14:8

She applied what she had to anoint my body. She did it beforehand for the burial.

2 Samuel 3:32

And they buried Abner in Hebron. And the king lifted up his voice, and wept at the grave of Abner, and all the people wept.

Deuteronomy 21:23

his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shall surely bury him the same day, for he who is hanged is accursed of God, that thou not defile thy land which LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance.

Jeremiah 19:11

and shall say to them, Thus says LORD of hosts: Even so I will break this people and this city, as a potter's vessel is broken, that cannot be made whole again. And they shall bury in Topheth till there be no place to bury.

Numbers 11:34

And the name of that place was called Kibrothhattaavah, because there they buried the people who lusted.

Genesis 23:6

Hear us, my lord. Thou are a prince of God among us. Bury thy dead in our choice sepulchers. None of us shall withhold from thee his sepulcher, but that thou may bury thy dead.

Genesis 23:9

that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. Let him give it to me for the full price in the midst of you for a possession of a burying place.

Matthew 27:53

And having come forth out of the sepulchers after his resurrection they entered into the holy city and appeared to many.

Matthew 27:33

And having come to a place called Golgotha, that is called, the place of a skull,

Joshua 24:30

And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.

Luke 23:33

And when they came to the place called Skull, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one at the right hand and the other at the left.

John 19:17

And he went out bearing his cross to a place called, of a Skull, a place that is called in Hebrew, Golgotha,

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Burial » Burying places » Closed with stones

Matthew 27:60

and laid it in his own new sepulcher, which he hewed out in the rock. And having rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, he departed.

Matthew 27:66

And having gone, they made the tomb secure, with the security having sealed the stone.

John 11:38

Jesus therefore again groaning in himself comes to the sepulcher. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

John 20:1

Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene comes early, while it was still darkness, to the sepulcher, and sees the stone taken away from the sepulcher.

Burial » Burying places » Family

Genesis 49:29

And he ordered them, and said to them, I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Genesis 47:30

but when I sleep with my fathers, thou shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place. And he said, I will do as thou have said.

Acts 7:16

And they were carried into Shechem, and laid in the sepulcher that Abraham bought for a price of silver from the sons of Hamor of Shechem.

Burial » Burying places » Tombs » In gardens

2 Kings 21:18

And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kings 21:26

And he was buried in his sepulcher in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

John 19:41

Now a garden was in the place where he was crucified, and in the garden a new sepulcher in which no man was yet laid.

Burial » Burying places » Anyone who touched, were unclean

Isaiah 65:4

who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places, who eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels,

Numbers 19:16

And whoever in the open field touches a man who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 19:18

And a clean man shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the souls who were there, and upon him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.

Burial » Burying places » On hills

Joshua 24:33

And Eleazar the son of Aaron died. And they buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill-country of Ephraim.

2 Kings 23:16

And as Josiah turned himself, he noticed the sepulchers that were there in the mount. And he sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchers, and burned them upon the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of LORD which the ma

Burial » Burying places » A place of honor

2 Chronicles 21:20

He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. And he departed without being wanted. And they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchers of the kings.

2 Chronicles 24:16

And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

2 Chronicles 24:25

And when they were departed for him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. And they buried him in the city of

Burial » Burying places » Of kings

2 Chronicles 32:33

And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the sepulchers of the sons of David. And all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

Burial » Burying places » For poor and strangers

Jeremiah 26:23

and they fetched forth Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

Matthew 27:7

And having held consultation, they bought the potter's field with them for burial for foreigners.

Burial » Burying places » Tombs » In houses

1 Samuel 25:1

And Samuel died. And all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

1 Kings 2:34

Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and killed him. And he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

Burial » Burying places » Painted and garnished

Matthew 23:27

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Matthew 23:29

Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchers of the righteous,

Burial » Burying places » Bought by abraham

Genesis 25:9

And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,

Burial » Burying places » And inscriptions

2 Kings 23:17

Then he said, What monument is that which I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulcher of the man of God who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou have done against the altar of Bethel.

Burial » Burying places » With shelves

Isaiah 14:15

Yet thou shall be brought down to Sheol, to the utmost parts of the pit.

Burial » Burying places » Prepared by » Asa

2 Chronicles 16:14

And they buried him in his own sepulchers, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds [of spices] prepared by the perfumers' art. And they mad

Burial » Burying places » Tombs » King saul's

1 Samuel 31:13

And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

Burial » Burying places » Marked with pillars, rachel's

Genesis 35:20

And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave, the same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.

Burial » Burying places » Prepared by » Joseph

Matthew 27:60

and laid it in his own new sepulcher, which he hewed out in the rock. And having rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, he departed.

Burial » Burying places » In valleys

Jeremiah 7:32

Therefore, behold, the days come, says LORD, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter. For they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place [to bury].

Burial » Burying places » Sealed

Matthew 27:66

And having gone, they made the tomb secure, with the security having sealed the stone.

Burial » Burying places » Refused to the dead

Revelation 11:9

And out of the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations they see their corpses three and a half days. And they will not allow their corpses to be put in a sepulcher.

Burial » Burying places » Demoniacs lived in

Matthew 8:28

And upon his coming to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two men being demon possessed met him, coming out of the sepulchers, exceedingly fierce, so that no man could pass by that way.

Burial » Burying places » Prepared by » jacob

Genesis 50:5

My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die. In my grave which I have dug for me in the land of Canaan, there shall thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

Burial » Burying places » Robbed

Jeremiah 8:1

At that time, says LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his rulers, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their gr

Burial » Burying places » Tombs » In caves

Genesis 23:9

that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. Let him give it to me for the full price in the midst of you for a possession of a burying place.

Burial » Burying places » Tombs » Under trees, deborah's

Genesis 35:8

And Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak. And the name of it was called Allon-bacuth.

Burying places » Sepulchres

2 Chronicles 16:14

And they buried him in his own sepulchers, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds [of spices] prepared by the perfumers' art. And they mad

Deuteronomy 34:6

And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor, but no man knows of his sepulcher to this day.

Matthew 27:60

and laid it in his own new sepulcher, which he hewed out in the rock. And having rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulcher, he departed.

Genesis 23:6

Hear us, my lord. Thou are a prince of God among us. Bury thy dead in our choice sepulchers. None of us shall withhold from thee his sepulcher, but that thou may bury thy dead.

2 Kings 9:28

And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulcher with his fathers in the city of David.

Burying places » Attachment to the burial places of the fathers

Genesis 49:29

And he ordered them, and said to them, I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Genesis 50:25

And Joseph took an oath of the sons of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from here.

Nehemiah 2:3

And I said to the king, Let the king live forever. Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchers, lays waste, and the gates of it are consumed with fire?

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