Reference: Funeral
American
See BURIAL and SEPULCHRE.
Easton
(3.) Burying was among the Jews the only mode of disposing of corpses (Ge 23:19; 25:9; 35:8-9, etc.).
(4.) The first traces of burning the dead are found in 1Sa 31:12. The burning of the body was affixed by the law of Moses as a penalty to certain crimes (Le 20:14; 21:9).
(5.) To leave the dead unburied was regarded with horror (1Ki 13:22; 14:11; 16:4; 21:24, etc.).
(6.) In the earliest times of which we have record kinsmen carried their dead to the grave (Ge 25:9; 35:29; Jg 16:31), but in later times this was done by others (Am 6:14).
(7.) Immediately after decease the body was washed, and then wrapped in a large cloth (Ac 9:37; Mt 27:59; Mr 15:46). In the case of persons of distinction, aromatics were laid on the folds of the cloth (Joh 19:39; comp. Joh 12:7).
(8.) As a rule the burial (q.v.) took place on the very day of the death (Ac 5:6,10), and the body was removed to the grave in an open coffin or on a bier (Lu 7:14). After the burial a funeral meal was usually given (2Sa 3:35; Jer 16:5,7; Ho 9:4).
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And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field at Machpelah, opposite to Mamre: that is Hebron, in the land of Canaan.
And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which was opposite to Mamre --
And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which was opposite to Mamre --
And Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, died; and she was buried beneath Bethel, under the oak; and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth. And God appeared to Jacob again after he had come from Padan-Aram, and blessed him.
And Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his peoples, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is infamy: they shall burn him and them with fire, that there be no infamy among you.
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burned with fire.
Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Esh'ta-ol in the tomb of Mano'ah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years.
all the valiant men arose and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and came to Jabesh, and burned them there.
And all the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day; but David swore, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread or aught else till the sun be down!
but camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to thee, Eat no bread and drink no water; thy carcase shall not come to the sepulchre of thy fathers.
Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat, and him that dieth in the field shall the fowl of the heavens eat; for Jehovah hath spoken.
Him that dieth of Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat, and him that dieth of his in the field shall the fowl of the heavens eat.
Him that dieth of Ahab in the city shall the dogs eat, and him that dieth in the field shall the fowl of the heavens eat.
For thus saith Jehovah: Enter not into the house of wailing, neither go to lament or bemoan them; for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith Jehovah, the loving-kindness and the tender mercies.
Nor shall they break bread for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall they give them the cup of consolations to drink for their father or for their mother.
They shall pour out no offerings of wine to Jehovah, neither shall their sacrifices be pleasing unto him: they shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be defiled: for their bread shall be for themselves; it shall not come into the house of Jehovah.
For behold, O house of Israel, saith Jehovah the God of hosts, I will raise up against you a nation; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hamath unto the torrent of the Arabah.
And Joseph having got the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,
And having bought fine linen, and having taken him down, he swathed him in the fine linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was cut out of rock, and rolled a stone to the door of the sepulchre.
and coming up he touched the bier, and the bearers stopped. And he said, Youth, I say to thee, Wake up.
Jesus therefore said, Suffer her to have kept this for the day of my preparation for burial;
And Nicodemus also, who at first came to Jesus by night, came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.
And the young men, rising up, swathed him up for burial, and having carried him out, buried him.
And she fell down immediately at his feet and expired. And when the young men came in they found her dead; and, having carried her out, they buried her by her husband.
And it came to pass in those days that she grew sick and died; and, having washed her, they put her in the upper room.