Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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 divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
His own sepulchres
Sweet odours
The apothecaries' art
A very great
General references
Bible References
His own sepulchres
2 Chronicles 35:24
His slaves, therefore, took him out of that chariot and put him in the second chariot that he had; and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died and was buried in the sepulchres of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
Isaiah 22:16
What hast thou here? or whom hast thou here that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here as he that hews himself out a sepulchre on a high place or that graves a habitation for himself in a rock?
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.
Sweet odours
Genesis 50:2
And Joseph commanded his slaves, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel.
Mark 16:1
And when the sabbath of the great feast of the passover was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, and Salome had bought sweet spices that they might come and anoint him.
John 19:39
Then Nicodemus came also, who at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about one hundred pounds.
The apothecaries' art
Exodus 30:25
and thou shalt make of it the oil of the holy anointing, a superior ointment, after the art of the apothecary, which shall be the oil of the holy anointing.
Ecclesiastes 10:1
Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: likewise a small act of folly unto him that is esteemed for wisdom and honour.
A very great
2 Chronicles 21:19
And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness; so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like they had done for his fathers.
Jeremiah 34:5
but thou shalt die in peace: and according to the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, said the LORD.
General references
Matthew 26:12
For in that she has poured this ointment on my body, she did it to prepare for my burial.