Thematic Bible: Preparation of, for burial


Thematic Bible



They buried him in his own tomb which he had cut out for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the resting place which he had filled with spices of various kinds blended by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.

So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.

So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.

Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.


The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus *said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”

So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen wrappings with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.

And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

and the face-cloth which had been on His head, not lying with the linen wrappings, but rolled up in a place by itself.

The young men got up and covered him up, and after carrying him out, they buried him.


all the valiant men rose and walked all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there.

Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? The Lord will trouble you this day.” And all Israel stoned them with stones; and they burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones.

All the priests of the high places who were there he slaughtered on the altars and burned human bones on them; then he returned to Jerusalem.

Then one’s uncle, or his undertaker, will lift him up to carry out his bones from the house, and he will say to the one who is in the innermost part of the house, “Is anyone else with you?” And that one will say, “No one.” Then he will answer, “Keep quiet. For the name of the Lord is not to be mentioned.”


And it happened at that time that she fell sick and died; and when they had washed her body, they laid it in an upper room.

For when she poured this perfume on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial.

The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus *said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”


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.

You will die in peace; and as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they will burn spices for you; and they will lament for you, “Alas, lord!”’ For I have spoken the word,” declares the Lord.