Burial: Rites Of

Jer 34:5

Burial: Soon after Death

Deu 21:23; Jos 8:29; Jhn 19:38-42; Act 5:9, 10

Burial: With Spices

2Ch 16:14; Mar 16:1; Luk 23:56

Burial: Bier (Coffin) Used At

2Sa 3:31; Luk 7:14

Burial: Attended by Relatives and Friends

Of Jacob,

Gen 50:5-9;

Abner,

2Sa 3:31;

child of Jeroboam,

1Ki 14:13;

the son of the widow of Nain,

Luk 7:12,13;

Stephen,

Act 8:2.

Burial: Lack Of

A disgrace

2Ki 9:10; Pro 30:17; Jer 16:4; 22:19; Eze 39:15

Burial: Directions Given About, before Death

By Jacob,

Gen 49:29, 30;

by Joseph,

Gen 50:25.

Burial: Burial of Gog

[Multitude] requiring seven months,

Eze 39:12, 13.

Burial: Burying Places

Bought by Abraham,

Gen 23; 25:9.

Prepared by Jacob,

     Gen 50:5;

Asa,

2Ch 16:14;

Joseph,

Mat 27:60.

On hills,

2Ki 23:16; Jos 24:33.

In valleys,

Jer 7:32.

Family,

Gen 47:30; 49:29; Act 7:16.

Of kings,

1Ki 2:10; 2Ch 32:33;

A place of honor,

2Ch 24:16, 25; 21:20.

For poor and strangers,

Jer 26:23; Mat 27:7.

Tombs:

in houses,

1Sa 25:1; 1Ki 2:34;

in gardens,

2Ki 21:18, 26; Jhn 19:41;

in caves,

Gen 23:9;

under trees, Deborah's,

Gen 35:8;

King Saul's,

1Sa 31:13.

Closed with stones,

Mat 27:60, 66; Jhn 11:38; 20:1.

Sealed,

Mat 27:66.

Marked with pillars, Rachel's,

Gen 35:20;

and inscriptions,

2Ki 23:17.

Painted and garnished,

Mat 23:27, 29.

With shelves,

Isa 14:15.

Demoniacs lived in,

Mat 8:28.

Anyone who touched, were unclean,

Num 19:16, 18; Isa 65:4.

Refused to the dead,

Rev 11:9.

Robbed,

Jer 8:1.

See CREMATION; DEAD, THE; DEATH; ELEGY; GRAVE; MOURNING.

Burial: Figurative

Isa 22:16; Rom 6:4; Col 2:12