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, did Abraham bury Sarah his wife, within the cave of the field of Machpelah, over against Mamre, the same, is Hebron, - in the land of Canaan.
And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him, in the cave of Machpelah, - in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, which is over against Mamre;
And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him, in the cave of Machpelah, - in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, which is over against Mamre;
And Deborah, Rebekah's nurse died, and was buried below Beth-el, under the oak, - so the name thereof was called, Allon-bacuth. And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came in from Padan-aram, - and blessed him.
And Isaac breathed his last, and died and was added unto his people, old, and satisfied with days, - and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.
And, any man, who taketh a woman and her mother, wickedness, it is, - in fire, shall both he and they be consumed, that wickedness be not in your midst.
And, the daughter of any priest, when she profaneth herself by unchastity, Her father, she, doth profane, with fire, shall she be consumed.
Then came down his brethren, and all the house of his father, and lifted him, and carried him up, and buried him, between Zorah and Eshtaol, in the buryingplace of Manoah his father, - he, having judged Israel twenty years.
then arose all the men of valour, and journeyed all the 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, when all the people came near to get David to eat bread, while yet it was day, David sware, saying - So, let God do to me, and, so, let him add, if, before the sun go in, I taste bread, or anything else.
but hast returned, and eaten bread and drunk water, in the place of which he said unto thee, Thou mayest neither eat bread nor drink water: thy dead body shall not enter the burying-place of thy fathers.
Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city, shall, the dogs, eat, and, him that dieth in the field, shall, the birds of heaven, eat, - For, Yahweh, 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 birds of heaven, eat.
Him that dieth, of Ahab, in the city, shall, the dogs, eat, - and, him that dieth in the field, shall, the birds of heaven, eat.
For, Thus, saith Yahweh - Do not thou enter into the house of crying, Neither do thou go to lament, nor do thou bemoan for them, - For I have withdrawn my blessing from this people, Declareth Yahweh, Both lovingkindness and compassion.
Neither shall they break bread to them in mourning To console one over his dead, - Nor cause them to drink the cup of consolation, Over ones father Or over ones mother;
They shall not pour out to Yahweh - wine, neither shall they be pleasing to him, their sacrifices, are as the food of mourning to them, all that eat thereof, shall defile themselves, because, their food for their appetite, entereth not into the house of Yahweh.
For behold me! raising up against you, O house of Israel, Declareth Yahweh, the God of hosts - a nation! And they shall crush you, from the entering in of Hamath, unto the torrent-bed of the waste plain.
And Joseph, taking the body, wrapped it up in a clean Indian-cloth,
And, buying a fine Indian cloth, he took him down, and wrapped him about with the cloth, and laid him in a tomb, which had been hewn out of a rock, - and rolled near a stone upon the door of the tomb.
And, going forward, he touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still; and he said - Young man! to thee, I say, Arise!
Jesus, therefore, said - Let her alone, that, for the day of my burial, she may observe it;
There came, moreover, Nicodemus also, - he that came unto him by night at the first, - bearing a roll of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds' weight.
But the young men, rising up, wrapped him about, and, bearing him forth, buried him.
And she fell instantly at his feet, and expired. And the young men, coming in, found her dead; and, bearing her forth, they buried her with her husband.
And it came to pass in those days, that she, sickening, died; and, bathing her, they laid her in an upper room.