Thematic Bible: Places of
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Burial » Places of » Frequently prepared and pointed out during life
They buried him in the tomb that he had cut for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer's art, and they made a very great fire in his honor.
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My father made me swear, saying, 'I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.' Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return."
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and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away.
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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 tomb of his father, which was at Bethlehem. And Joab and his men marched all night, and the day broke upon them at Hebron.
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the field that Abraham purchased from the Hittites. There Abraham was buried, with Sarah his wife.
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah--
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Burial » Places of » Were ceremonially unclean
Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
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Then a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there and on whoever touched the bone, or the slain or the dead or the grave.
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Burial » Places of » Held in high veneration
I said to the king, "Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?"
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And I said to the king, "If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers' graves, that I may rebuild it."
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Burial » Places of » Tombs erected over
Burial » Places of » Provided for the common people
and they took Uriah from Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who struck him down with the sword and dumped his dead body into the burial place of the common people.
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Burial » Places of » Often desecrated by idolatry
a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and making offerings on bricks; who sit in tombs, and spend the night in secret places; who eat pig's flesh, and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;
Burial » Places of » Sometimes had inscriptions
Then he said, "What is that monument that I see?" And the men of the city told him, "It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted these things that you have done against the altar at Bethel."
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Burial » Places of » Pillars erected on
and Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb. It is the pillar of Rachel's tomb, which is there to this day.
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Burial » Places of » Provided for aliens and strangers
So they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field as a burial place for strangers.
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Burial » Places of » For criminals, marked by heaps
And they raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Then the LORD turned from his burning anger. Therefore, to this day the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor.
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Burial » Places of » Visited by sorrowing friends
When the Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary rise quickly and go out, they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.
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Burial » Places of » Sometimes not apparent
Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it."
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