14 Bible Verses about Dead bodies

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2 Samuel 21:12-14

And David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hanged them in the day that the Philistines kille and he brought up from there the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and they gathered the bones of those who were hanged. And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the sepulcher of Kish his father. And they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was appealed for the land.

Deuteronomy 28:26

And thy dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the beasts of the earth, and there shall be none to frighten them away.

Jeremiah 16:4

They shall die grievous deaths. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground. And they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine. And their dead bodies shall be food fo

Numbers 9:6-10

And there were certain men who were unclean by reason of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day, and those men said to him, We are unclean by reason of the dead body of a man. Why are we kept back, that we may not offer the oblation of LORD in its appointed season among the sons of Israel? And Moses said to them, Stay ye, that I may hear what LORD will command concerning you.read more.
And LORD spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the Passover to LORD.

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.

Mark 5:41

And having taken the child's hand, he says to her, Talitha cumi. Which is, being interpreted, Little girl, I say to thee, awake.

Luke 8:54

But having sent them all away outside, having taken her by the hand, he called out, saying, Girl, awake.

Mark 9:26-27

And having cried out, and having convulsed him much, it came out. And he became as if dead, so as for many to said that he was dead. But having taken him by the hand, Jesus lifted him up, and he arose.

Luke 7:14

And having come, he touched the coffin, and the men carrying it stood still. And he said, Young man, I say to thee, arise.

John 11:39

Jesus says, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of the man who came to end, says to him, Lord, he smells now, for is the fourth day.

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dead Bodies » Jewish laws concerning

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.

Numbers 6:6

He shall not come near to a dead body all the days that he separates himself to LORD.

Numbers 9:6

And there were certain men who were unclean by reason of the dead body of a man, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day,

More verses: Haggai 2:13

dead Bodies » Burial of

Deuteronomy 10:6

(And the sons of Israel journeyed from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died, and there he was buried, and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.

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.

1 Kings 11:15

For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the army was gone up to bury the slain, and had smitten every male in Edom

dead Bodies » Unburied, a mark of disgrace

Deuteronomy 28:26

And thy dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the beasts of the earth, and there shall be none to frighten them away.

Jeremiah 16:4

They shall die grievous deaths. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground. And they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine. And their dead bodies shall be food fo

Psalm 79:2

They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be food to the birds of the heavens, the flesh of thy sanctified to the beasts of the earth.

Isaiah 14:19

But thou are cast forth away from thy sepulcher like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, as a dead body trodden under foot.

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