'Grave' in the Bible
Jacob set up a marker on her grave; it is the marker at Rachel’s grave to this day.
Then Moses asked Aaron, “What did these people do to you that you have led them into such a grave sin?”
Anyone in the open field who touches a person who has been killed by the sword or has died, or who even touches a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
A person who is clean is to take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, a corpse, or a person who had been killed.
He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab facing Beth-peor, and no one to this day knows where his grave is.
Today when you leave me, you’ll find two men at Rachel’s Grave at Zelzah in the land of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you went looking for have been found, and now your father has stopped being concerned about the donkeys and is worried about you, asking: What should I do about my son?’
Saul responded, “I have sinned. Come back, my son David, I will never harm you again because today you considered my life precious. I have been a fool! I’ve committed a grave error.”
but you went back and ate bread and drank water in the place that He said to you, “Do not eat bread and do not drink water”— your corpse will never reach the grave of your fathers.’”
Then he laid the corpse in his own grave, and they mourned over him: “Oh, my brother!”
After he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones,
All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He alone out of Jeroboam’s house will be put in the family tomb, because out of the house of Jeroboam the Lord God of Israel found something good only in him.
therefore, I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster that I am bringing on this place.’”Then they reported to the king.
‘I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster that I am bringing on this place and on its inhabitants.’”Then they reported to the king.
who are filled with much joyand are glad when they reach the grave?
You will approach the grave in full vigor,as a stack of sheaves is gathered in its season.
Why not forgive my sinand pardon my transgression?For soon I will lie down in the grave.You will eagerly seek me, but I will be gone.
I wish I had never existedbut had been carried from the womb to the grave.
His bones may be full of youthful vigor,but will lie down with him in the grave.
The dirt on his grave is sweet to him.Everyone follows behind him,and those who go before him are without number.
Hide them together in the dust;imprison them in the grave.
For there is nothing reliable in what they say;destruction is within them;their throat is an open grave;they flatter with their tongues.
abandoned among the dead.I am like the slain lying in the grave,whom You no longer remember,and who are cut off from Your care.
Will Your faithful love be declared in the grave,Your faithfulness in Abaddon?
But you are thrown out without a grave,like a worthless branch,covered by those slain with the swordand dumped into a rocky pit like a trampled corpse.
They made His grave with the wickedand with a rich man at His death,although He had done no violenceand had not spoken deceitfully.
Their quiver is like an open grave;they are all mighty warriors.
because he didn’t kill me in the wombso that my mother might have been my grave,her womb eternally pregnant.
Elam is therewith all her hordes around her grave.All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—those who went down to the underworld uncircumcised,who once spread their terrorin the land of the living.They bear their disgracewith those who descend to the Pit.
The Lord has issued an order concerning you:There will be no offspringto carry on your name.I will eliminate the carved idol and cast imagefrom the house of your gods;I will prepare your grave,for you are contemptible.