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
So his servants took him out of the chariot, put him in another chariot that he owned, and brought him to Jerusalem, where he died. He was buried in the tombs of his ancestors; all the people of Judah and Jerusalem mourned Josiah.
Isaiah 22:16
What right do you have to be here? What relatives do you have buried here? Why do you chisel out a tomb for yourself here? He chisels out his burial site in an elevated place, he carves out his tomb on a cliff.
John 19:41
Now at the place where Jesus was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden was a new tomb where no one had yet been buried.
Sweet odours
Genesis 50:2
Joseph instructed the physicians in his service to embalm his father, so the physicians embalmed Israel.
Mark 16:1
When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought aromatic spices so that they might go and anoint him.
John 19:39
Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus at night, accompanied Joseph, carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about seventy-five pounds.
The apothecaries' art
Exodus 30:25
You are to make this into a sacred anointing oil, a perfumed compound, the work of a perfumer. It will be sacred anointing oil.
Ecclesiastes 10:1
One dead fly makes the perfumer's ointment give off a rancid stench, so a little folly can outweigh much wisdom.
A very great
2 Chronicles 21:19
After about two years his intestines came out because of the disease, so that he died a very painful death. His people did not make a bonfire to honor him, as they had done for his ancestors.
Jeremiah 34:5
You will die a peaceful death. They will burn incense at your burial just as they did at the burial of your ancestors, the former kings who preceded you. They will mourn for you, saying, "Poor, poor master!" Indeed, you have my own word on this. I, the Lord, affirm it!'"
General references
Matthew 26:12
When she poured this oil on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.