30 Bible Verses about Burying places

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Deuteronomy 34:6

He was buried in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Moab, but no one knows to this day where his burial place is.

John 19:41

A garden was located in the place where he was crucified, and in that garden was a new tomb in which no one had yet been placed.

2 Kings 21:26

He was buried in his own grave in the Garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah became king in his place.

1 Kings 13:31

After he had buried the man of God, he gave these instructions to his children: "When I die, bury me in the same grave in which the man of God is buried. Place my bones beside his,

Genesis 23:19

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.

Ecclesiastes 8:10

So I watched the wicked being entombed. They used to come in and out of the Holy Place, but now they are forgotten in the city, where they used to work. This, too, is pointless.

2 Kings 9:28

Ahaziah fled to Megiddo, where he died. Ahaziah's servants transported the king's body by chariot to Jerusalem and buried it in his own sepulcher near his ancestors in the City of David.

Ezekiel 39:11

"When all of this happens, I'm going to set aside a grave site for Gog in Israel's Traveler's Valley, near the approach to the Dead Sea. She will block off everyone who tries to bypass it. There they will bury Gog, and rename the area "Valley of Gog's Gang'.

Jeremiah 7:32

"Therefore, the time is near," declares the LORD, "when it will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. They'll bury in Topheth because there is no other place to do it.

Hosea 9:6

Look! They have gone away because of the destruction Egypt will gather them up, and Memphis will bury them. Weeds will overgrow their inheritance, and thorns will grow in their tents.

Mark 14:8

She has done what she could. She poured perfume on my body in preparation for my burial.

2 Samuel 3:32

and they buried Abner at Hebron. The king wept loudly at Abner's grave, and all the people wept, too.

Deuteronomy 21:23

his body must not remain overnight on the tree. You must bury him that same day, because cursed of God is the one who has been hanged on a tree. Don't defile your land that the LORD is about to give you as your inheritance."

Jeremiah 19:11

and say to them, "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "In this same way I'll break this people and this city, just as someone breaks a potter's vessel which he then cannot put back together again. They'll bury corpses in Topheth until there is no more room to bury anyone.

Numbers 11:34

That's why the place was named Kibroth-hattaavah, because they buried the people there who had an insatiable appetite for meat.

Genesis 23:6

"Listen to us, sir. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial tombs. None of us would refuse you his tomb for burying your dead."

Genesis 23:9

Give me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him, at the end of his field. He should sell it to me in your presence at full price for a burial site."

Matthew 27:53

After his resurrection, they came out of their tombs, went into the Holy City, and appeared to many people.

Matthew 27:33

When they came to a place called Golgotha (which means "Skull Place"),

Joshua 24:30

they buried him in his territorial inheritance at Timnath-serah in the mountainous region of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

Luke 23:33

When they reached the place called The Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

John 19:17

Carrying the cross all by himself, he went out to what is called The Place of a Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.

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Burial » Burying places » Closed with stones

Matthew 27:60

Then he placed it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out of the rock. After rolling a large stone across the door of the tomb, he left,

Matthew 27:66

So they went and secured the tomb by putting a seal on the stone in the presence of the guards.

John 11:38

Groaning deeply again, Jesus came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying in front of it.

John 20:1

On the first day of the week, early in the morning and while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and noticed that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

Burial » Burying places » Family

Genesis 49:29

In his last words, Jacob issued this set of instructions to them all: "I'm about to join our ancestors. Bury me alongside my ancestors in the cave in the field that used to belong to Ephron the Hittite.

Genesis 47:30

Instead, when I've died, as my ancestors have, you are to carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their tomb." "I'll do what you've asked," Joseph replied.

Acts 7:16

They were brought back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought at a high price from Hamor's descendants in Shechem.

Burial » Burying places » Tombs » In gardens

2 Kings 21:18

Manasseh died, as did his ancestors, and he was buried in the garden at his home in the Garden of Uzza. His son Amon became king in his place.

2 Kings 21:26

He was buried in his own grave in the Garden of Uzza, and his son Josiah became king in his place.

John 19:41

A garden was located in the place where he was crucified, and in that garden was a new tomb in which no one had yet been placed.

Burial » Burying places » Anyone who touched, were unclean

Isaiah 65:4

who sit among graves, and spend the night in secret places; who eat pigs' meat, with the broth of detestable things in their pots;

Numbers 19:16

Whoever is out in an open field and touches the body of someone who was killed by a sword, or a dead body, or someone's bones, or a grave, he is to be considered unclean for seven days.

Numbers 19:18

A clean person is to take some hyssop, dip it in water, and then sprinkle it on the tent, on every vessel, and on whoever was there (that is, on whoever touched the bones, the killed person, or the dead body, including whoever dug the grave).

Burial » Burying places » On hills

Joshua 24:33

Later, Aaron's son Eleazar also died, and they buried him at Gibeah, which belonged to his son Phinehas, and which had been given to him in the mountainous region of Ephraim.

2 Kings 23:16

As Josiah turned around, he observed the graves located there on the mountain, so he sent for and recovered the bones from the graves and burned them on the altar to defile it, in keeping with the message from the LORD that the godly man had proclaimed when he was declaring these things.

Burial » Burying places » A place of honor

2 Chronicles 21:20

Jehoram was 32 years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for eight years. He left this earth to nobody's regret and they buried him in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.

2 Chronicles 24:16

He was buried in the City of David among the graves of the kings, because he had accomplished many good things in Israel on behalf of God and his Temple.

2 Chronicles 24:25

After the Arameans left him very sick, Joash's own servants conspired against him because Joash had murdered Jehoiada the priest's son, and they killed him on his sick bed.

Burial » Burying places » Of kings

1 Kings 2:10

After this, David died, as had his ancestors, and he was buried in the City of David.

2 Chronicles 32:33

Hezekiah died, as had his fathers, and they buried him in the upper part of the tombs of the descendants of David. All of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. But his son Manasseh reigned in his place.

Burial » Burying places » For poor and strangers

Jeremiah 26:23

They brought Uriah out of Egypt and brought him to King Jehoiakim, who killed him with a sword. Then they threw his body into a common grave."

Matthew 27:7

So they decided to use the money to buy the Potter's Field as a burial ground for foreigners.

Burial » Burying places » Tombs » In houses

1 Samuel 25:1

Samuel died and all Israel assembled to mourn for him. They buried him at his home in Ramah.

1 Kings 2:34

Jehoiada's son Benaiah then approached Joab, attacked him, killed him, and had him buried at Joab's home in the wilderness.

Burial » Burying places » Painted and garnished

Matthew 23:27

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead people's bones and every kind of impurity.

Matthew 23:29

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.

Burial » Burying places » Bought by abraham

Genesis 25:9

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.

Burial » Burying places » And inscriptions

2 Kings 23:17

He asked, "What is this monument that I'm looking at?" The men who lived in that city answered him, "It's the grave of that godly man who came from Judah and predicted these things that you've done against the altar at Bethel!"

Burial » Burying places » With shelves

Isaiah 14:15

But you are brought down to join the dead, to the far reaches of the Pit.

Burial » Burying places » Prepared by » Asa

2 Chronicles 16:14

and he was buried in his own tomb that he had prepared for himself in the City of David. He was laid out on a bier that had been filled with various spices prepared by morticians, and the mourners built a massive bonfire to honor his memory.

Burial » Burying places » Tombs » King saul's

1 Samuel 31:13

They took their bones, buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted for seven days.

Burial » Burying places » Marked with pillars, rachel's

Genesis 35:20

Jacob erected a pillar over her grave, and that pillar stands over Rachel's grave to this day.

Burial » Burying places » Prepared by » Joseph

Matthew 27:60

Then he placed it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out of the rock. After rolling a large stone across the door of the tomb, he left,

Burial » Burying places » In valleys

Jeremiah 7:32

"Therefore, the time is near," declares the LORD, "when it will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. They'll bury in Topheth because there is no other place to do it.

Burial » Burying places » Sealed

Matthew 27:66

So they went and secured the tomb by putting a seal on the stone in the presence of the guards.

Burial » Burying places » Refused to the dead

Revelation 11:9

For three and a half days some members of the nations, tribes, languages, and nations will look at their dead bodies and will not allow them to be placed in a tomb.

Burial » Burying places » Demoniacs lived in

Matthew 8:28

When Jesus arrived on the other side in the region of the Gerasenes, two demon-possessed men met him as they were coming out of the tombs. They were so violent that no one could travel on that road.

Burial » Burying places » Prepared by » jacob

Genesis 50:5

"My father told me, "Look! I'm about to die. Bury me in my grave that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan." So please let me travel to bury my father. I'll be right back.'"

Burial » Burying places » Robbed

Jeremiah 8:1

"At that time," declares the LORD, "the bones of the king of Judah, the bones of his officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the residents of Jerusalem will be removed from their graves.

Burial » Burying places » Tombs » In caves

Genesis 23:9

Give me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him, at the end of his field. He should sell it to me in your presence at full price for a burial site."

Burial » Burying places » Tombs » Under trees, deborah's

Genesis 35:8

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.

Burying places » Sepulchres

2 Chronicles 16:14

and he was buried in his own tomb that he had prepared for himself in the City of David. He was laid out on a bier that had been filled with various spices prepared by morticians, and the mourners built a massive bonfire to honor his memory.

Deuteronomy 34:6

He was buried in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Moab, but no one knows to this day where his burial place is.

Matthew 27:60

Then he placed it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out of the rock. After rolling a large stone across the door of the tomb, he left,

Genesis 23:6

"Listen to us, sir. You are a mighty prince among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our burial tombs. None of us would refuse you his tomb for burying your dead."

2 Kings 9:28

Ahaziah fled to Megiddo, where he died. Ahaziah's servants transported the king's body by chariot to Jerusalem and buried it in his own sepulcher near his ancestors in the City of David.

Burying places » Attachment to the burial places of the fathers

Genesis 49:29

In his last words, Jacob issued this set of instructions to them all: "I'm about to join our ancestors. Bury me alongside my ancestors in the cave in the field that used to belong to Ephron the Hittite.

Genesis 50:25

So Joseph made all of Israel's other children make this promise: "Because God is certainly going to take care of you, you are to carry my bones up from here."

Nehemiah 2:3

Then I was filled with fear. I replied to the king, "May the king live forever. Why shouldn't I be troubled, since the city where my ancestral sepulchers are located lies waste, with its gates burned by fire?"

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