Burial
Probable origin of -- Ge 4:9,10. Design of -- Ge 23:3,4. Attended by Family of the dead. -- Ge 50:5,6,8; Mt 8:21. Numbers of friends, &c. -- Ge 50:7,9; 2Sa 3:31; Lu 7:12. Female friends. -- Mr 15:47; Lu 7:13. Hired mourners. -- Jer 9:17,18. Great lamentation at. -- Ge 50:10,11; 2Sa 3:31,32. Orations sometimes made at -- 2Sa 3:33,34. The body was Washed before. -- Ac 9:37. Anointed for. -- Mt 26:12. Wound in linen for. -- Joh 11:44; 19:40. Preserved with spices. -- Joh 19:39,40. Sometimes burned before. -- 1Sa 31:12. Carried on a bier to. -- 2Sa 3:31; Lu 7:14. Perfumes burned at -- 2Ch 16:14; Jer 34:5. Antiquity of coffins for -- Ge 50:26. Often took place immediately after death -- Joh 11:17,39; Ac 5:6,10. Of persons embalmed, deferred for seventy days -- Ge 50:3,4. Of persons hanged, always on the days of execution -- De 21:23; Joh 19:31. The right of all nations -- Jdj 16:31; Joh 19:38. Of enemies, sometimes performed by the conquerors -- 1Ki 11:15; Eze 39:11-14. Of the friendless, a kind act -- 2Sa 2:5. Places used for Natural caves. -- Ge 23:19; Joh 11:38. Caves hewn out of rocks. -- Isa 22:16; Mt 27:60. Gardens. -- 2Ki 21:18,26; Joh 19:41. Under trees. -- Ge 35:8; 1Sa 31:13. Tops of the hills. -- Jos 24:33; 2Ki 23:16. Houses of the deceased. -- 1Sa 25:1; 1Ki 2:34. The city of David for the kings of Judah. -- 1Ki 2:10; 2Ch 21:20; 24:16. Antiquity of purchasing places for -- Ge 23:7-16. Places of Frequently prepared and pointed out during life. -- Ge 50:5; 2Ch 16:14; Mt 27:60. Members of a family interred in the same. -- Ge 25:10; 49:31; 2Sa 2:32. Held in high veneration. -- Ne 2:3,5. Provided for the common people. -- Jer 26:23. Provided for aliens and strangers. -- Mt 27:7. Visited by sorrowing friends. -- Joh 11:31. Pillars erected on. -- Ge 35:20. Tombs erected over. -- Mt 23:27-29. Sometimes had inscriptions. -- 2Ki 23:17. Sometimes not apparent. -- Lu 11:44. For criminals, marked by heaps. -- Jos 7:26. Were ceremonially unclean. -- Nu 19:16,18. Often desecrated by idolatry. -- Isa 65:3,4. The Jews anxious to be interred in their family places of -- Ge 47:29-31; 49:29,30; 50:25; 2Sa 19:37. Followed by a feast -- 2Sa 3:35; Jer 16:7,8; Ho 9:4. Privation of, considered a calamity -- Ec 6:3. Privation of, threatened as a punishment -- 2Ki 9:10; Jer 8:2; 16:4. An ignominious, compared to the burial of an ass -- Jer 22:19. Illustrative of regeneration -- Ro 6:4; Col 2:12.