30 Bible Verses about Burying places

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Deuteronomy 34:6

And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor, but no one knows of his sepulchre unto this day.

John 19:41

Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new sepulchre, in which no one had yet been laid.

2 Kings 21:26

And he was buried in his sepulchre 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 sepulchre 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

Then I also saw that the wicked who were buried came into remembrance more than those who had frequented the holy place, and these were forgotten in the city where they had worked uprightly. This also is vanity.

2 Kings 9:28

And his slaves carried him to Jerusalem and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.

Ezekiel 39:11

And it shall come to pass in that day that I will give unto Gog a place there of graves in Israel, the valley of the passengers on the east of the sea: and it shall stop the noses of the passengers; and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamongog.

Jeremiah 7:32

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no longer be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter; for they shall bury in Tophet, for there shall be no other place.

Hosea 9:6

For, behold, they have left because of the destruction; Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: nettles shall possess in inheritance that which is desirable of their silver; thorns shall grow up in their dwellings.

Mark 14:8

She has done what she could, for she has anticipated anointing my body 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 shalt without fail bury him that same day (for he that is hanged is accursed of God) that thy land not be defiled, which the LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance.

Jeremiah 19:11

and shalt say unto them, Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said: Even so will I break this people and this city as one breaks a potter's vessel that cannot be restored again; and they shall bury them in Tophet, for there shall be no other place to bury.

Numbers 11:34

And he called the name of that place Kibrothhattaavah because there they buried the people that lusted.

Genesis 23:6

Hear us, my lord; thou art a prince of God among us; in the best of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre so 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; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it to me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.

Matthew 27:53

and came out of the graves after his resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared unto many.

Matthew 27:33

And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, the place of a skull,

Joshua 24:30

And they buried him within the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in Mount Ephraim, on the north side of the Mountain of Gaash.

Luke 23:33

And when they were come to the place, which is called of the Skull, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

John 19:17

And he, bearing his cross , went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew, Golgotha,

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Burial » Burying places » Closed with stones

Matthew 27:60

and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre and departed.

Matthew 27:66

So they went and made the sepulchre secure, sealing the stone and setting a watch.

John 11:38

Jesus therefore, becoming enraged again in himself, came to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.

John 20:1

The first of the sabbaths, Mary Magdalene came early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre and saw the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

Burial » Burying places » Family

Genesis 49:29

And he charged them and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron, the Hittite,

Genesis 47:30

but I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

Acts 7:16

who were carried over into Shechem and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money 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 sepulchre in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah, his son, reigned in his stead.

John 19:41

Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new sepulchre, in which no one had yet been laid.

Burial » Burying places » Anyone who touched, were unclean

Isaiah 65:4

who remain asleep among the graves, and lodge in the deserts, who eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

Numbers 19:16

And whoever touches one that is slain with a sword in the open fields or a dead body or a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Numbers 19:18

and a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it upon the tent and upon all the stuff and upon the persons that were there and upon the one that touched the bone or the one slain or the one 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 to him in the mountain of Ephraim.

2 Kings 23:16

And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount and sent and took the bones out of the sepulchres and burned them upon the altar and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who had proclaimed these words.

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 departed without being desired. And they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres 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, both toward God and toward his house.

2 Chronicles 24:25

And when they were departed from him (for they left him in great diseases), his own slaves conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada, the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the sepulchres of the kings.

Burial » Burying places » Of kings

2 Chronicles 32:33

And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour 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 Urijah out of Egypt and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

Burial » Burying places » Tombs » In houses

1 Samuel 25:1

And Samuel died, and all Israel gathered 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

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

Burial » Burying places » Painted and garnished

Matthew 23:27

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whitewashed sepulchres, who indeed appear beautiful outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness.

Matthew 23:29

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the sepulchres of the righteous

Burial » Burying places » Bought by abraham

Genesis 25:9

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

Burial » Burying places » And inscriptions

2 Kings 23:17

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

Burial » Burying places » With shelves

Isaiah 14:15

Yet thou shalt be cast down to Sheol, to the sides of the pit.

Burial » Burying places » Prepared by » Asa

2 Chronicles 16:14

And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and aromas prepared by the apothecaries' art; and they made a very great burning for him.

Burial » Burying places » Tombs » King saul's

1 Samuel 31:13

And they took their bones and buried them under a tree at Jabesh and fasted seven days.

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

Genesis 35:20

And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

Burial » Burying places » Prepared by » Joseph

Matthew 27:60

and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre and departed.

Burial » Burying places » In valleys

Jeremiah 7:32

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no longer be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter; for they shall bury in Tophet, for there shall be no other place.

Burial » Burying places » Sealed

Matthew 27:66

So they went and made the sepulchre secure, sealing the stone and setting a watch.

Burial » Burying places » Refused to the dead

Revelation 11:9

And those of the peoples and kindreds and tongues and Gentiles shall see their dead bodies three days and a half and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

Burial » Burying places » Demoniacs lived in

Matthew 8:28

And when he was come to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with demons, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.

Burial » Burying places » Prepared by » jacob

Genesis 50:5

My father made me swear, saying, Behold, I die; in my grave which I have dug for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt 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, said the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah and the bones of his princes and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;

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; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it to me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.

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

Genesis 35:8

Then Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak, and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.

Burying places » Sepulchres

2 Chronicles 16:14

And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and aromas prepared by the apothecaries' art; and they made a very great burning for him.

Deuteronomy 34:6

And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor, but no one knows of his sepulchre unto this day.

Matthew 27:60

and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre and departed.

Genesis 23:6

Hear us, my lord; thou art a prince of God among us; in the best of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre so that thou may bury thy dead.

2 Kings 9:28

And his slaves carried him to Jerusalem and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.

Burying places » Attachment to the burial places of the fathers

Genesis 49:29

And he charged them and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto 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 said unto the king, Let the king live for ever; why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the house of my fathers' sepulchres, lies waste, and its gates are consumed with fire?

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