Burial
Burial
Probable origin of - Ge 4:9,10
Design of - Ge 23:3,4
ATTENDED BY
Orations sometimes made at - 2Sa 3:33,34
THE BODY WAS
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 - Jud 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
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
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