Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
Beyond
Bible References
Beyond
Genesis 50:11
And the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the threshing-floor of Atad, and they said, This is a grievous mourning of the Egyptians. Therefore the name of it was called Abel-Mizraim, which is beyond the Jordan.
Deuteronomy 1:1
These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side the Jordan, in the wilderness, in the plain, opposite to Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
Seven days
Genesis 50:4
And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found favour in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
Numbers 19:11
He that toucheth a dead person, any dead body of a man, shall be unclean seven days.
Deuteronomy 34:8
And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; and the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
1 Samuel 31:13
And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
2 Samuel 1:17
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son;
Job 2:13
And they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights; and none spoke a word to him; for they saw that his anguish was very great.
Acts 8:2
And pious men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him.