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.

The apothecaries' art

General references

Bible References

His own sepulchres

2 Chronicles 35:24
And his servants will cause him to pass from the chariot, and they will cause him to ride in the second chariot which was to him; and they will cause him to go to Jerusalem, and he will die, and be buried in the graves of his fathers. And all Judah and Jerusalem mourning for Josiah.
Isaiah 22:16
What to thee here, and who to thee here, that thou hewedst to thee here a tomb, he hewing from on high his tomb and cutting in a dwelling in a rock to himself?
John 19:41
And in the place where he was crucified, was a garden; and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one was ever laid.

Sweet odours

Genesis 50:2
And Joseph will command his servants the physicians, to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed IsraeL
Mark 16:1
And the sabbath having intervened, Mary Magdalene, and Mary of James, and Salome, bought spices, that having come, they might anoint him.
John 19:39
And Nicodemus also came, he having come to Jesus at first by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about one hundred pounds.

The apothecaries' art

Exodus 30:25
And make it an oil a holy anointing, a perfumed unguent the work of the perfumer: it shall be an oil a holy anointing.
Ecclesiastes 10:1
Flies of death will cause the oil of the perfume to stink, it will ferment: the preciousness of wisdom above the honor of the least folly.

A very great

2 Chronicles 21:19
And it will be to days from days, and according to the time of the going forth of the end to the days the second time, his bowels will go forth with his sickness: and he will die with evil sicknesses. And his people made not to him a burning as the burning of his fathers.
Jeremiah 34:5
In peace shalt thou die; and with the burnings of thy fathers the former kings which were before thee, thus shall they burn for thee; and, Alas, Lord they shall mourn for thee; for I spake the word, says Jehovah.

General references

Matthew 26:12
For she, casting this perfumed oil upon my body, did to prepare me for interment,