Thematic Bible: Burial
Thematic Bible
Burial » The jews anxious to be interred in their family places of
                                When the time drew nigh that Israel must die, he sent for his son Joseph and said unto him, "If I have found grace in thy sight, put thy hand under my thigh and deal mercifully and truly with me, that thou bury me not in Egypt: but let me lie by my fathers, and carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burial." And he answered, "I will do as thou hast said." And he said, "Swear unto me." And he sware unto him. And then Israel bowed him unto the bed's head.
                                                            
                            
                                And he charged them, and said unto them, "I shall be put unto my people: see that ye bury me with my fathers, in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
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                                And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel and said, "God will not fail but visit you: see therefore that ye carry my bones hence."
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                                But let thy servant turn back again, that I may die in mine own city, by the grave of my father and mother. But lo here is thy servant Chimham: let him go with my lord the king, and do to him, what shall please thee."
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                            Burial » Places used for » The city of david for the kings of judah
                                And so David rested with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
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                                When he began to reign, he was twenty seven years old, and reigned in Jerusalem eight years. And he walked not pleasantly and they buried him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchre of the kings.
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                                And they buried him in the city of David among the kings because he had done good in Israel, and on God and on his house.
                                                            
                            Burial » Attended by » Attendance » Friends
                                And Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh that were the elders of his house, and all the elders of Egypt,
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                                And there went with him also Chariots and horsemen: so that they were an exceeding great company.
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                                And David said to Joab and to all the people that were with him, "Rent your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." And king David himself followed the bier.
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                                When he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, which was the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and much people of the city was with her.
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                            Burial » Places of » Frequently prepared and pointed out during life
                                And they buried him in his own sepulchre which he had made in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which he had filled with sweet odours of divers kinds, made by the craft of the apothecaries. And they did exceeding great cost about burying of him.
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                                my father made me swear and said, 'Lo, I die, see that thou bury me in my grave which I have made me in the land of Canaan.' Now therefore let me go and bury my father, and then will I come again."
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                                and put it in his new tomb, which he had hewn out even in the rock, and rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre and departed.
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                            Burial » Lack of, a disgrace
                                But as an Ass shall he be buried corrupt, and be cast without the gates of Jerusalem.
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                                Whoso laugheth his father to scorn, and setteth his mother's commandment at naught; the ravens pick out his eyes in the valley, and devoured be he of the young Eagles.
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                                And as for Jezebel, the dogs shall eat her in the field of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.'" And he opened the door and fled.
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                                They shall die a horrible death: and no man shall mourn for them, nor bury them, but they shall lie as dung upon the earth. They shall perish through the sword, and hunger, and their bodies shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and beasts of the earth.
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                                Now those that go through the land where they see a man's bone, they shall set up a token by it, till the dead buriers have buried it also, in the valley of the people of Gog.
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                            Burial » Places of » Members of a family interred in the same
                                And they took up Asahel and buried him in the sepulchre of his father in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and came in the dawning to Hebron.
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                                Which field Abraham bought of the sons of Heth: There was Abraham buried, and Sara his wife.
                                                            
                            
                                There they buried Abraham and Sara his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebecca his wife. And there I buried Lea:
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                            Burial » Soon after death
                                let not his body remain all night upon the tree, but bury him the same day. For the curse of God is on him that is hanged. Defile not thy land therefore, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit.
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                                And the king of Ai he hanged on tree, until evening. And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded and they took the carcass down off the tree, and cast it in the entering of the gate of the city, and cast thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.
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                                After that, Joseph of Arimathaea, which was a disciple of Jesus - but secretly for fear of the Jews - besought Pilate that he might take down the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave him license. And there came also Nicodemus which at the beginning came to Jesus by night, and brought of myrrh and aloes mingled together about a hundred pound weight. Then took they the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the odors as the manner of the Jews is to bury.                                    read more.
And in the place where Jesus was crucified, was a garden: and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man laid. There laid they Jesus because of the Jews' Sabbath even, for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
                            And in the place where Jesus was crucified, was a garden: and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man laid. There laid they Jesus because of the Jews' Sabbath even, for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
                                Then Peter said unto her, "Why have ye agreed together, to tempt the spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out." Then she fell down straightway at his feet and yielded up the ghost. And the young men came in and found her dead, and carried her out and buried her by her husband.
                                                            
                            Burial » Privation of, threatened as a punishment
                                And as for Jezebel, the dogs shall eat her in the field of Jezreel, and none shall bury her.'" And he opened the door and fled.
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                                They shall die a horrible death: and no man shall mourn for them, nor bury them, but they shall lie as dung upon the earth. They shall perish through the sword, and hunger, and their bodies shall be meat for the fowls of the air, and beasts of the earth.
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                                and laid against the Sun, the Moon and all the heavenly host: whom they loved, whom they served, whom they ran after, whom they sought and worshipped. They shall neither be gathered together nor buried, but shall lie upon the earth, to their shame and despising.
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                            Burial » Attended by » Great lamentation at
                                And when they came to the field of Atad beyond Jordan, there they made great and exceeding sore lamentation. And he mourned for his father seven days. When the inhabiters of the land the Canaanites saw the mourning in the field of Atad, they said, "This is a great mourning which the Egyptians make." Wherefore the name of the place is called Abelmizraim, which place lieth beyond Jordan.
                                                            
                            
                                And David said to Joab and to all the people that were with him, "Rent your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." And king David himself followed the bier. And when they had buried Abner in Hebron, the king lifted up his voice and wept over the sepulchre of Abner, and so did all the people.
                                                            
                            Burial » Perfumes burned at
                                And they buried him in his own sepulchre which he had made in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which he had filled with sweet odours of divers kinds, made by the craft of the apothecaries. And they did exceeding great cost about burying of him.
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                                but shalt die in peace. Like as thy forefathers the kings, thy progenitors, were burnt: so shalt thou be burnt also, and in the mourning they shall say, 'Oh, lord.' For thus have I determined, sayeth the LORD.'"
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                            Burial » Of enemies, sometimes performed by the conquerors
                                For when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury them that were slain, he smote all the males in Edom -
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                                At the same time will I give unto Gog a place to be buried in, in Israel: even the valley, wherethrough men go from the east to the seaward: Those that travel thereby, shall abhor it. There shall Gog and all his people be buried: and it shall be called the valley of the people of Gog. Seven months long shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land. Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them. O it shall be a glorious day, when I get me that honour, sayeth the LORD God.                                    read more.
They shall ordain men also to be dead buriers, ever going through the land, and appoint them certain places to bury those in which remain upon the field - that the land may be cleansed. From end to end shall they seek; and that seven months long.
                            They shall ordain men also to be dead buriers, ever going through the land, and appoint them certain places to bury those in which remain upon the field - that the land may be cleansed. From end to end shall they seek; and that seven months long.
Burial » Followed by a feast
                                And when all the people came to eat meat with David, while it was yet day, David sware, saying, "So do God to me and so thereto, if I taste bread or ought else till the sun be down."
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                                There shall not one visit another, to mourn with them for their dead, or to comfort them. One shall not offer another the cup of consolation, to forget their heaviness for father and mother. Thou shalt not go into their feast house to sit down, much less to eat or drink with them.
                                                            
                            Burial » Of persons hanged, always on the days of execution
                                let not his body remain all night upon the tree, but bury him the same day. For the curse of God is on him that is hanged. Defile not thy land therefore, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit.
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                                The Jews then, because it was the Sabbath even that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day - For that Sabbath day was a high day - besought Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken down.
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                            Burial » Places used for » Under trees
                                Then died Debora, Rebekah's nurse, and was buried beneath Bethel under an oak. And the name of it was called the oak of lamentation.
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                                and took their bones and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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                            Burial » Places used for » Gardens
                                And Manasseh laid him to sleep with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, even in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
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                                And they buried him in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
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                            Burial » Burying places » Closed with stones
                                and put it in his new tomb, which he had hewn out even in the rock, and rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre and departed.
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                                And they went and made the sepulchre sure with watchmen, and sealed the stone.
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                                Jesus again groaned in himself and came to the grave: it was a cave, and a stone laid on it.
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                                The morrow after the Sabbath day, first of Sabbaths, came Mary Magdalene early when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.
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                            Burial » Attended by » Family of the dead
                                my father made me swear and said, 'Lo, I die, see that thou bury me in my grave which I have made me in the land of Canaan.' Now therefore let me go and bury my father, and then will I come again." And Pharaoh said, "Go and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear."
                                                            
                            
                                and all the house of Joseph and his brethren and his father's house: only their children and their sheep and their cattle left they behind them in the land of Goshen.
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                            Burial » Places of » Were ceremonially unclean
                                And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the fields, or a dead person, or a bone of a dead man, or a grave: shall be unclean seven days.
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                                And a clean person shall take Hyssop and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent and upon all the vessels and on the souls that were there, and upon him that touched a bone or a slain person or a dead body or a grave.
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                            Burial » With spices
                                And when the Sabbath day was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary Joseph, and Salome, bought ointments, that they might come and anoint him.
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                                And they returned, and prepared odours, and ointments; but rested the Sabbath day, according to the commandment.
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                                And they buried him in his own sepulchre which he had made in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which he had filled with sweet odours of divers kinds, made by the craft of the apothecaries. And they did exceeding great cost about burying of him.
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                            Burial » Places used for » Caves hewn out of rocks
                                'What hast thou here to do? And whom hast thou here? That thou shouldest here hew thee out a sepulchre, as it were one that causeth a costly tomb of stone to be made for himself, or that graveth a habitation out of a rock?
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                                and put it in his new tomb, which he had hewn out even in the rock, and rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre and departed.
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                            Burial » Places used for » Houses of the deceased
                                And then Samuel died, and all Israel gathered together and lamented him, and buried him in his own house at Ramah. And David arose and gat him to the wilderness of Paran.
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                                And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and smote him and slew him and buried him in his own house in the wilderness.
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                            Burial » Places used for » Tops of the hills
                                And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, whom they buried in Gibeah that pertained to Phinehas his son and was given him in Mount Ephraim.
                                                            
                            
                                And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the graves that were in the mount and sent and fetched the bones out of the graves and burnt them upon the altar and polluted it according to the word of the LORD that the man of God had proclaimed, which openly had denounced the same things.
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                            Burial » Figurative
                                'What hast thou here to do? And whom hast thou here? That thou shouldest here hew thee out a sepulchre, as it were one that causeth a costly tomb of stone to be made for himself, or that graveth a habitation out of a rock?
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                                in that ye are buried with him through baptism, in whom ye are also risen again through faith, that is wrought by the operation of God which raised him from death.
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                                We are buried with him by baptism for to die: That likewise as Christ was raised up from death by the glory of the father: even so we also should walk in a new life.
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                            Burial » Illustrative of regeneration
                                in that ye are buried with him through baptism, in whom ye are also risen again through faith, that is wrought by the operation of God which raised him from death.
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                                We are buried with him by baptism for to die: That likewise as Christ was raised up from death by the glory of the father: even so we also should walk in a new life.
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                            Burial » Places of » Held in high veneration
                                Nevertheless I was sore afraid and said unto the king, "God save the king's life forever, should I not look sadly? The city of my fathers' burial lieth waste and the gates thereof are consumed with fire."
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                                and said unto the king, "If it please the king, and if thy servant be favoured in thy sight, I beseech thee: send me in to Judah unto the city of my fathers' burial, that I may build it."
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                            Burial » Places used for » Natural caves
                                Jesus again groaned in himself and came to the grave: it was a cave, and a stone laid on it.
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                                And then Abraham buried Sara his wife in the double cave of the field that lieth before Mamre, otherwise called Hebron in the land of Canaan.
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                            Burial » Burying places » Family
                                And he charged them, and said unto them, "I shall be put unto my people: see that ye bury me with my fathers, in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
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                                but let me lie by my fathers, and carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burial." And he answered, "I will do as thou hast said."
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                                and were translated into Shechem, and were put in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for money of the sons of Hamor, at Shechem.
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                            Burial » The body was » Carried on a bier to
                                And David said to Joab and to all the people that were with him, "Rent your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." And king David himself followed the bier.
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                                And he went and touched the coffin, and they that bare him stood still. And he said, "Young man, I say unto thee, arise."
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                            Burial » The right of all nations
                                After that, Joseph of Arimathaea, which was a disciple of Jesus - but secretly for fear of the Jews - besought Pilate that he might take down the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave him license.
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                                And then his brethren and all the house of his father came down and took him up, and brought him and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol, in the burying place of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
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                            Burial » Burying places » Tombs » In gardens
                                And Manasseh laid him to sleep with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, even in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
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                                And they buried him in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
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                                And in the place where Jesus was crucified, was a garden: and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man laid.
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                            Burial » The body was » Wound in linen for
                                And he that was dead, came forth bound hand and foot, with grave bonds after the manner as they were wont to bind their dead withal. And his face was bound with a napkin. Jesus said unto them, "Loose him, and let him go."
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                                Then took they the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the odors as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
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                            Burial » Often took place immediately after death
                                Then went Jesus, and found that he had lain in his grave four days already.
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                                And Jesus said, "Take ye away the stone." Martha, the sister of him that was dead, said unto him, "Lord by this time he stinketh. For he hath been dead four days."
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                            Burial » Burying places » Anyone who touched, were unclean
                                they lurk among the graves, and lie in the dens all night. They eat swine flesh, and unclean broth is in their vessels.
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                                And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the fields, or a dead person, or a bone of a dead man, or a grave: shall be unclean seven days.
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                                And a clean person shall take Hyssop and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent and upon all the vessels and on the souls that were there, and upon him that touched a bone or a slain person or a dead body or a grave.
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                            Burial » Attended by » Female friends
                                And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, "Weep not."
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                                And Mary Magdalene and Mary Joseph beheld where he was laid.
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                            Burial » Burying places » On hills
                                And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, whom they buried in Gibeah that pertained to Phinehas his son and was given him in Mount Ephraim.
                                                            
                            
                                And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the graves that were in the mount and sent and fetched the bones out of the graves and burnt them upon the altar and polluted it according to the word of the LORD that the man of God had proclaimed, which openly had denounced the same things.
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                            Burial » Burying places » A place of honor
                                When he began to reign, he was twenty seven years old, and reigned in Jerusalem eight years. And he walked not pleasantly and they buried him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchre of the kings.
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                                And they buried him in the city of David among the kings because he had done good in Israel, and on God and on his house.
                                                            
                            
                                And as soon as they were departed from him, though they left him in great diseases: yet his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the children of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed. And when he was dead, they buried him in the city of David: but not in the sepulchers of the kings.
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                            Burial » Burying places » Of kings
                                And so David rested with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.
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                                And then Hezekiah laid him to rest with his fathers, and they buried him in the highest sepulchre of the sons of David: and Judah and the inhabiters of Jerusalem did him worship at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
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                            Burial » Burying places » For poor and strangers
                                Which fetched Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him unto king Jehoiakim that slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the common people's grave.
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                                And they took counsel, and bought with them a potter's field to bury strangers in.
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                            Burial » Burying places » Tombs » In houses
                                And then Samuel died, and all Israel gathered together and lamented him, and buried him in his own house at Ramah. And David arose and gat him to the wilderness of Paran.
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                                And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and smote him and slew him and buried him in his own house in the wilderness.
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                            Burial » Bier (coffin) used at
                                And David said to Joab and to all the people that were with him, "Rent your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." And king David himself followed the bier.
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                                And he went and touched the coffin, and they that bare him stood still. And he said, "Young man, I say unto thee, arise."
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                            Burial » Attended by » Hired mourners
                                Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, "Look that ye call for mourning wives, and send for wise women: that they come shortly, and sing a mourning song of you: that the tears may fall out of our eyes, and that our eyelids may gush out of water.
                                                            
                            Burial » Places of » Tombs erected over
                                Woe be to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like unto painted tombs which appear beautiful outwards: but are within full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness. So are ye, for outward ye appear righteous unto men, when within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe be unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous
                                                            
                            Burial » Privation of, considered a calamity
                                If a man beget a hundredth children, and live many years, so that his days are many in number, and yet cannot enjoy his good, neither be buried: as for him I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
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                            Burial » Orations sometimes made at
                                And the king lamented over Abner and said, "Abner died not as a wretch dieth. Thy hands were not manacled nor thy feet brought into fetters: but as men fall before wicked children, so fellest thou." And all the people wept yet more over him.
                                                            
                            Burial » Antiquity of purchasing places for
                                Abraham stood up and bowed himself before the people of the land the children of Heth. And he communed with them, saying, "If it be your minds that I shall bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and speak for me to Ephron the son of Zohar: and let him give me the double cave which he hath in the end of his field, for as much money as it is worth; let him give it me in the presence of you, for a possession to bury in."                                    read more.
For Ephron dwelled among the children of Heth. Then Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of his city, saying, "Not so, my lord, but hear me: The field give I thee, and the cave that therein is, give I thee also. And even in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee to bury thy dead in." Then Abraham bowed himself before the people of the land, and spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the country saying, "I pray thee hear me: I will give silver for the field, take it of me, and so will I bury my dead there." Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, "My lord, hearken unto me. The land is worth four hundredth sicles of silver: But what is that betwixt thee and me? Bury thy dead." And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron and weighed him the silver which he had said in the audience of the sons of Heth. Even four hundred silver sicles of current money among merchants.
                            For Ephron dwelled among the children of Heth. Then Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of his city, saying, "Not so, my lord, but hear me: The field give I thee, and the cave that therein is, give I thee also. And even in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee to bury thy dead in." Then Abraham bowed himself before the people of the land, and spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the country saying, "I pray thee hear me: I will give silver for the field, take it of me, and so will I bury my dead there." Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him, "My lord, hearken unto me. The land is worth four hundredth sicles of silver: But what is that betwixt thee and me? Bury thy dead." And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron and weighed him the silver which he had said in the audience of the sons of Heth. Even four hundred silver sicles of current money among merchants.
Burial » The body was » Sometimes burned before
                                they arose as many as were men of war and went all night and took the carcass of Saul and the carcasses of his sons from the walls of Bet-Shean and brought them to Jabesh and burnt them there,
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                            Burial » Places of » Provided for the common people
                                Which fetched Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him unto king Jehoiakim that slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the common people's grave.
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                            Burial » An ignominious, compared to the burial of an ass
                                But as an Ass shall he be buried corrupt, and be cast without the gates of Jerusalem.
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                            Burial » Of persons embalmed, deferred for seventy days
                                for so long doth the embalming last, and the Egyptians bewept him seventy days. And when the days of weeping were ended, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, "If I have found favour in your eyes, speak unto Pharaoh and tell him, how that
                                                            
                            Burial » Probable origin of
                                And the LORD said unto Cain, "Where is Abel thy brother?" And he said, "I can not tell, am I my brother's keeper?" And he said, "What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cryeth unto me out of the earth.
                                                            
                            Burial » Design of
                                And Abraham stood up from the corpse, and talked with the sons of Heth saying, "I am a stranger and a foreigner among you; give me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
                                                            
                            Burial » The body was » Preserved with spices
                                And there came also Nicodemus which at the beginning came to Jesus by night, and brought of myrrh and aloes mingled together about a hundred pound weight. Then took they the body of Jesus and wound it in linen clothes with the odors as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
                                                            
                            Burial » The body was » Anointed
                                And in that she casted this ointment on my body, she did it to bury me, withal.
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                            Burial » Places of » Often desecrated by idolatry
                                To a people that is ever defying me to my face. They make their oblations in gardens, and their smoke upon altars of brick; they lurk among the graves, and lie in the dens all night. They eat swine flesh, and unclean broth is in their vessels.
                                                            
                            Burial » Places of » Sometimes had inscriptions
                                Then the king said, "What meaneth yonder grave stone that I see?" And the men of the city told him, "It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah and openly denounced the selfsame things that thou hast done to the altar of Bethel."
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                            Burial » Places of » Pillars erected on
                                And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave, which is called Rachel's grave pillar unto this day.
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                            Burial » Antiquity of coffins for
                                And so Joseph died, when he was a hundred and ten years old. And they embalmed him and put him in a chest in Egypt.
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                            Burial » Places of » Provided for aliens and strangers
                                And they took counsel, and bought with them a potter's field to bury strangers in.
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                            Burial » Burial of gog (multitude) requiring seven months
                                Seven months long shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land. Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them. O it shall be a glorious day, when I get me that honour, sayeth the LORD God.
                                                            
                            Burial » Of the friendless, a kind act
                                he sent messengers unto them and said unto them, "Blessed are ye unto the LORD, that ye have showed such kindness unto your lord Saul, and have buried him.
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                            Burial » Directions given about, before death » By jacob
                                And he charged them, and said unto them, "I shall be put unto my people: see that ye bury me with my fathers, in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the double cave that is in the field before Mamre in the land of Canaan. Which field Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite for a possession to bury in.
                                                            
                            Burial » Burying places » Painted and garnished
                                Woe be to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like unto painted tombs which appear beautiful outwards: but are within full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness.
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                                Woe be unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous
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                            Burial » Burying places » Bought by abraham
                                And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the double cave in the field of Ephron, son of Zoar the Hittite before Mamre.
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                            Burial » Places of » For criminals, marked by heaps
                                And they cast upon him a great heap of stones that remaineth unto this day. And so the LORD turned from his fierce wrath. Wherefore the name of the place is called the valley of Achor unto this day.
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                            Burial » Attended by relatives and friends » The son of the widow of nain
                                When he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, which was the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and much people of the city was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, "Weep not."
                                                            
                            Burial » Places of » Visited by sorrowing friends
                                The Jews then, which were with her in the house and comforted her, when they saw Mary that she rose up hastily, and went out: followed her, saying, "She goeth unto the grave, to weep there."
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                            Burial » Places of » Sometimes not apparent
                                Woe be to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are as graves which appear not; And the men that walk over them, are not aware of them."
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                            Burial » Attended by relatives and friends » Child of jeroboam
                                Howbeit, all Israel shall mourn him and bury him, for this only of all Jeroboam shall come to the sepulchre, because in him there is found goodness toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.
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                            Burial » Attended by relatives and friends » Of jacob
                                my father made me swear and said, 'Lo, I die, see that thou bury me in my grave which I have made me in the land of Canaan.' Now therefore let me go and bury my father, and then will I come again." And Pharaoh said, "Go and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear." And Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went all the servants of Pharaoh that were the elders of his house, and all the elders of Egypt,                                    read more.
and all the house of Joseph and his brethren and his father's house: only their children and their sheep and their cattle left they behind them in the land of Goshen. And there went with him also Chariots and horsemen: so that they were an exceeding great company.
                            and all the house of Joseph and his brethren and his father's house: only their children and their sheep and their cattle left they behind them in the land of Goshen. And there went with him also Chariots and horsemen: so that they were an exceeding great company.
Burial » Burying places » And inscriptions
                                Then the king said, "What meaneth yonder grave stone that I see?" And the men of the city told him, "It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah and openly denounced the selfsame things that thou hast done to the altar of Bethel."
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                            Burial » Burying places » With shelves
                                Yet dare I say, that thou shalt be brought down to the deep of hell.
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                            Burial » Burying places » Prepared by » Asa
                                And they buried him in his own sepulchre which he had made in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which he had filled with sweet odours of divers kinds, made by the craft of the apothecaries. And they did exceeding great cost about burying of him.
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                            Burial » Burying places » Tombs » King saul's
                                and took their bones and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
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                            Burial » The body was » Washed before
                                And it chanced in those days that she was sick and died. When they had washed her and laid her in a chamber -
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                            Burial » Directions given about, before death » By joseph
                                And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel and said, "God will not fail but visit you: see therefore that ye carry my bones hence."
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                            Burial » Attended by relatives and friends » Abner
                                And David said to Joab and to all the people that were with him, "Rent your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." And king David himself followed the bier.
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                            Burial » Burying places » Marked with pillars, rachel's
                                And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave, which is called Rachel's grave pillar unto this day.
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                            Burial » Burying places » Prepared by » Joseph
                                and put it in his new tomb, which he had hewn out even in the rock, and rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre and departed.
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                            Burial » Burying places » In valleys
                                And therefore behold, the days shall come, sayeth the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, or the valley of the children of Hinnom, but the valley of the slain - for in Tophet they shall be buried, because they shall else have no room.
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                            Burial » Burying places » Sealed
                                And they went and made the sepulchre sure with watchmen, and sealed the stone.
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                            Burial » Rites of
                                but shalt die in peace. Like as thy forefathers the kings, thy progenitors, were burnt: so shalt thou be burnt also, and in the mourning they shall say, 'Oh, lord.' For thus have I determined, sayeth the LORD.'"
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                            Burial » Burying places » Refused to the dead
                                And they of the people and kindreds, and tongues, and they of the nations, shall see their bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their bodies to be put in graves.
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                            Burial » Burying places » Demoniacs lived in
                                And when he was come to the other side, into the country of the Gergesites, there met him two possessed of devils, which came out of the graves, and were out of measure fierce, so that no man might go by that way.
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                            Burial » Burying places » Prepared by » jacob
                                my father made me swear and said, 'Lo, I die, see that thou bury me in my grave which I have made me in the land of Canaan.' Now therefore let me go and bury my father, and then will I come again."
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                            Burial » Burying places » Robbed
                                At the same time, sayeth the LORD, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of his princes, the bones of the priests and prophets, yea, and the bones of the citizens of Jerusalem, shall be brought out of their graves
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                            Burial » Burying places » Tombs » In caves
                                and let him give me the double cave which he hath in the end of his field, for as much money as it is worth; let him give it me in the presence of you, for a possession to bury in."
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                            Burial » Burying places » Tombs » Under trees, deborah's
                                Then died Debora, Rebekah's nurse, and was buried beneath Bethel under an oak. And the name of it was called the oak of lamentation.
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                            Burial » Attended by relatives and friends » Stephen
                                Then devout men dressed Stephen, and made great lamentation over him.
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                            the Human nature of Christ » Is proved by his » Burial
                                And Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and put it in his new tomb, which he had hewn out even in the rock, and rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre and departed.