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See BURIAL and SEPULCHRE.
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(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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After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave at the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre (that is, in Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field that used to belong to Zohar the Hittite's son Ephron.
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field that used to belong to Zohar the Hittite's son Ephron.
Rebekah's nurse Deborah died and was buried there, under the oak tree that was below Beth-el. That's why the place was named Allon-bacuth. God appeared again to Jacob after he had arrived from Paddan-aram and blessed him.
when he died and joined his ancestors at a ripe old age. Then his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
"If a man takes a wife along with her mother, that's wickedness. They are to be burned with fire that is, both him and them, so that there will be no wickedness in your midst.
"Now if the daughter of any priest defiles herself by being a prostitute, she defiles her father. She is to be incinerated.
Afterwards, his brothers and his father's household servants came down, took him, brought him back, and buried him in his father Manoah's tomb between Zorah and Eshtaol. He had governed Israel for 20 years.
every valiant soldier got up, traveled all night, and removed Saul's body and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. Then they went to Jabesh and cremated the bodies there.
Then all the people cried again because of him. Everyone tried to persuade David to have a meal while there was still daylight, but David took an oath by saying, "May God to do like this to me and more, if I taste bread or anything else before the sun sets!"
but instead you returned to eat and drink in the very place that he told you "Eat no food and drink no water," your body will not be buried in the same grave as your ancestors.'"
"I will burn up Jeroboam's dynasty, as a man burns up manure until it is gone. Dogs will eat anyone who dies in the city that belongs to Jeroboam's household. The birds of the sky will eat anyone who dies in the open field, because the LORD has determined it.'
Anyone from Baasha's household who dies in the city will be eaten by dogs, and anyone of his who dies in the field the birds of the sky will eat."
Dogs will eat whoever belongs to Ahab and who dies in the city. The birds of the sky will eat whoever dies in the fields.'"
For this is what the LORD says: "Don't go to a house where there is mourning, don't go to lament, nor to express sorrow to them. For I've taken my peace away from this people," declares the LORD, "as well as gracious love and compassion.
They won't break bread for the mourner to be consoled for the dead. They won't give anyone the cup of consolation to drink for his father or mother.
They won't present wine offerings to the LORD, nor will they please him. Their sacrifices will seem like food for mourners everyone who eats them will become unclean; none of them will enter the Temple of the LORD.
"So look, house of Israel! I will raise up a nation against you," declares the LORD, the God of the Heavenly Armies, "and they will harass you from the entrance of Hamath to the wadi of the wilderness."
So Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth.
Joseph bought some linen cloth, took the body down, wrapped it in the cloth, laid it in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock, and rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.
Then he went up and touched the bier, and the men who were carrying it stopped. He said, "Young man, I say to you, get up!"
Then Jesus said, "Leave her alone so she can observe the day of my burial,
Nicodemus, the man who had first come to Jesus at night, also arrived, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about 100 litra.
The young men got up, wrapped him up, carried him outside, and buried him.
She instantly fell down at Peter's feet and died. When the young men came in, they found her dead. So they carried her out and buried her next to her husband.
At that time, she got sick and died. After they had washed her, they laid her in an upstairs room.