14 Bible Verses about Dead bodies
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he went and took the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan from the leaders of Jabesh Gilead. (They had secretly taken them from the plaza at Beth Shan. It was there that Philistines publicly exposed their corpses after they had killed Saul at Gilboa.) David brought the bones of Saul and of Jonathan his son from there; they also gathered up the bones of those who had been executed. They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin at Zela in the grave of his father Kish. After they had done everything that the king had commanded, God responded to their prayers for the land.
Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.
They will die of deadly diseases. No one will mourn for them. They will not be buried. Their dead bodies will lie like manure spread on the ground. They will be killed in war or die of starvation. Their corpses will be food for the birds and wild animals.
He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.
"'Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.
It happened that some men who were ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man could not keep the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day. And those men said to him, "We are ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man; why are we kept back from offering the Lord's offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?" So Moses said to them, "Remain here and I will hear what the Lord will command concerning you."read more.
The Lord spoke to Moses: "Tell the Israelites, 'If any of you or of your posterity become ceremonially defiled by touching a dead body, or are on a journey far away, then he may observe the Passover to the Lord.
And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.
But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and gently took her by the hand, and the girl got up.
Then, gently taking the child by the hand, he said to her, "Talitha koum," which means, "Little girl, I say to you, get up."
It shrieked, threw him into terrible convulsions, and came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse that many said, "He is dead!" But Jesus gently took his hand and raised him to his feet, and he stood up.
Then he came up and touched the bier, and those who carried it stood still. He said, "Young man, I say to you, get up!"
Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, "Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days."
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dead Bodies » Jewish laws concerning
his body must not remain all night on the tree; instead you must make certain you bury him that same day, for the one who is left exposed on a tree is cursed by God. You must not defile your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.
"'All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact a dead body.
It happened that some men who were ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man could not keep the Passover on that day, so they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.
"'Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.
dead Bodies » Burial of
"During those days the Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-Yaaqan to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried, and his son Eleazar became priest in his place.
"Now the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried.
He buried him in the land of Moab near Beth Peor, but no one knows his exact burial place to this very day.
During David's campaign against Edom, Joab, the commander of the army, while on a mission to bury the dead, killed every male in Edom.
dead Bodies » Unburied, a mark of disgrace
Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.
They will die of deadly diseases. No one will mourn for them. They will not be buried. Their dead bodies will lie like manure spread on the ground. They will be killed in war or die of starvation. Their corpses will be food for the birds and wild animals.
Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years -- even if he lives a long, long time, but cannot enjoy his prosperity -- even if he were to live forever -- I would say, "A stillborn child is better off than he is!"
They have given the corpses of your servants to the birds of the sky; the flesh of your loyal followers to the beasts of the earth.
But you have been thrown out of your grave like a shoot that is thrown away. You lie among the slain, among those who have been slashed by the sword, among those headed for the stones of the pit, as if you were a mangled corpse.
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Carrying Dead Bodies
2 Corinthians 4:10always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body.
