Thematic Bible: Mourning for, often
Thematic Bible
The Dead » Mourning for, often » Very great
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Lamentation and bitter weeping.
Rachel is weeping for her children;
She
Because
When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled,
Weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children;
And she refused to be comforted,
Because they were no more.”
The Dead » Mourning for, often » Lasted many days
When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and sorrowful lamentation; and he observed seven days mourning for his father.
Now forty days were required for it, for such is the period required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.
So Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
The Dead » Mourning for, often » Testified by rending the garments
Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes and gird on sackcloth and lament before Abner.” And King David walked behind the bier.
So Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
The Dead » Mourning for, often » With plaintive music
“Therefore My heart wails for Moab like flutes; My heart also wails like flutes for the men of Kir-heres. Therefore they have lost the abundance it produced.
When Jesus came into the official’s house, and saw the flute-players and the crowd in noisy disorder,
The Dead » Mourning for, often » Loud and clamorous
Both great men and small will die in this land; they will not be buried, they will not be lamented, nor will anyone gash himself or shave his head for them.
They *came to the house of the synagogue official; and He *saw a commotion, and people loudly weeping and wailing.
The Dead » Mourning for, often » By hired mourners
Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come; And send for the wailing women, that they may come! "Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, That our eyes may shed tears And our eyelids flow with water.
The Dead » Mourning for, often » Testified by change of apparel
So Joab sent to Tekoa and brought a wise woman from there and said to her, “Please pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning garments now, and do not anoint yourself with oil, but be like a woman who has been mourning for the dead many days;
The Dead » Mourning for, often » Testified by covering the head
The king covered his face and cried out with a loud voice, “O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!”
The Dead » Mourning for, often » Testified by tearing the hair
Men will not break bread in mourning for them, to comfort anyone for the dead, nor give them a cup of consolation to drink for anyone’s father or mother.