14 Bible Verses about Dead bodies

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2 Samuel 21:12-14

And David will go and take the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan, his son, from the lords of JabeshGilead, who stole them from the street of the House of Shan, where the rovers hung them there in the day the rovers struck Saul in Gilboa: And he will bring up from thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son: and they will gather the bones of those being hung. And they will bury the bones of Saul, and Jonathan his son, in the land of Benjamin in Zelzah in the grave of Kish his father: and they will do all which the king commanded. And God will hear for the land after this.

Jeremiah 16:4

Deaths of diseases shall they die; they shall not be lamented, and they shall not be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth, and by sword and by famine shall they be consumed, and their carcass was for food to the birds of the heavens and to the beasts of the earth.

Numbers 9:6-10

And there shall be men who were unclean by the soul of man, and they will not be able to do the passover in that day: and they came near before Moses and before Aaron, in that day: And these men will say to him, We are unclean by the soul of man: wherefore shall we be withheld so as not to bring near an offering of Jehovah at his appointment, in the midst of the sons of Israel? And Moses will say to them, Stand ye, and I will hear what Jehovah will command for you.read more.
And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, A man, a man when he shall be unclean by the soul, or in a way far off to you or to your generations, and he did the passover to Jehovah.

Numbers 19:16

And every one who shall touch upon the face of the field, upon the wounded of the sword, or upon the dead, or upon the bone of man, or upon a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Mark 5:41

And having taken the hand of the young child, he says to her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Little girl, I say to thee, arise.

Luke 8:54

And he having cast all without, and held firmly her hand, called, saying, Child, arise.

Mark 9:26-27

And having cried and rent him much, it came forth, and he was as dead; so that many said, That he is dead. And Jesus having held him by the hand, raised him; and he stood up.

Luke 7:14

And having come, he touched the coffin, and they bearing stood. And he said, Young man, I say to thee, arise.

John 11:39

Jesus says, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead, says to him, Lord, he already smells: for it is the fourth day.

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Deuteronomy 21:23

His carcass shall not pass the night upon the tree; for burying, ye shall bury him in that day, for he being hung is the curse of God; and thou shalt not defile thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee an inheritance.

Numbers 6:6

All the days of his consecrating himself to Jehovah, he shall not go in to a dead soul.

Numbers 9:6

And there shall be men who were unclean by the soul of man, and they will not be able to do the passover in that day: and they came near before Moses and before Aaron, in that day:

More verses: Haggai 2:13

dead Bodies » Burial of

Deuteronomy 10:6

And the sons of Israel removed from Beeroth of the sons of Jaakan, to Moseroth: there Aaron died, and he will be buried there; and Eleazar his son will be priest in his stead.

Deuteronomy 34:6

And he will bury him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against the House of the Cleft: and no man knew his grave till this day.

1 Kings 11:15

And it will be in David's being in Edom, and in Joab the chief of the army going up, he came to bury the slain, and he will strike every male in Edom;

dead Bodies » Unburied, a mark of disgrace

Jeremiah 16:4

Deaths of diseases shall they die; they shall not be lamented, and they shall not be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth, and by sword and by famine shall they be consumed, and their carcass was for food to the birds of the heavens and to the beasts of the earth.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man shall beget a hundred, and live many years, and a multitude shall be the days of his years, and his soul shall not be satisfied from good, and also there was no burial to him; I said, Good above him an abortion.

Psalm 79:2

They gave the corpses of thy servants food to the birds of the heavens, the flesh of thy godly ones to the beasts of the earth.

Isaiah 14:19

And thou wert east out of thy grave as a sprout abhorred, a garment of the slain thrust through with the sword, and going down to the stones of the pit as a corpse trodden down.

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