8 Bible Verses about Inadequate Burials
Most Relevant Verses
Because he did not kill me before my birth,
So that my mother might have been my grave,
And her womb always pregnant.
I will destroy your high places [devoted to idolatrous worship], and cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies upon the [crushed] bodies of your idols, and My soul will detest you [with deep and unutterable loathing].
but have come back and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which the Lord said to you, “You shall not eat bread nor drink water”; your body shall not come to the tomb of your fathers (ancestors).’”
“He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey—
Dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
And they brought Uriah [God’s spokesman] from Egypt and led him to King Jehoiakim, who executed him with a sword and threw his dead body among the graves of the common people.
“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of the Slaughter, for [in bloody warfare] they will bury [the dead] in Topheth until there is no more room.
and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “This is the way I will break this people and this city as one breaks a potter’s vessel, so that it cannot be mended. They will bury [corpses] in Topheth until there is no more room left [in that place] to bury [the dead].
He turned to look around, and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
Bible Theasaurus
- Burials (1 instance)
- Inadequate (2 instances)