Bible Concordances
Burial

Torrey's Topical Textbook

• Probable origin of
  Genesis 4:9,10

• Design of
  Genesis 23:3,4

• ATTENDED BY
  • Family of the dead
    Genesis 50:5,6,8; Matthew 8:21
  • Numbers of friends, &c
    Genesis 50:7,9; 2 Samuel 3:31; Luke 7:12
  • Female friends
    Mark 15:47; Luke 7:13
  • Hired mourners
    Jeremiah 9:17,18
  • Great lamentation at
    Genesis 50:10,11; 2 Samuel 3:31,32

• Orations sometimes made at
  2 Samuel 3:33,34

• THE BODY WAS
  • Washed before
    Acts 9:37
  • Anointed for
    Matthew 26:12
  • Wound in linen for
    John 11:44; 19:40
  • Preserved with spices
    John 19:39,40
  • Sometimes burned before
    1 Samuel 31:12
  • Carried on a bier to
    2 Samuel 3:31; Luke 7:14

• Perfumes burned at
  2 Chronicles 16:14; Jeremiah 34:5

• Antiquity of coffins for
  Genesis 50:26

• Often took place immediately after death
  John 11:17,39; Acts 5:6,10

• Of persons embalmed, deferred for seventy days
  Genesis 50:3,4

• Of persons hanged, always on the days of execution
  Deuteronomy 21:23; John 19:31

• The right of all nations
  Judges 16:31; John 19:38

• Of enemies, sometimes performed by the conquerors
  1 Kings 11:15; Ezekiel 39:11-14

• Of the friendless, a kind act
  2 Samuel 2:5

• PLACES USED FOR
  • Natural caves
    Genesis 23:19; John 11:38
  • Caves hewn out of rocks
    Isaiah 22:16; Matthew 27:60
  • Gardens
    2 Kings 21:18,26; John 19:41
  • Under trees
    Genesis 35:8; 1 Samuel 31:13
  • Tops of the hills
    Joshua 24:33; 2 Kings 23:16
  • Houses of the deceased
    1 Samuel 25:1; 1 Kings 2:34
  • The city of David for the kings of Judah
    1 Kings 2:10; 2 Chronicles 21:20; 24:16

• Antiquity of purchasing places for
  Genesis 23:7-16

• PLACES OF
  • Frequently prepared and pointed out during life
    Genesis 50:5; 2 Chronicles 16:14; Matthew 27:60
  • Members of a family interred in the same
    Genesis 25:10; 49:31; 2 Samuel 2:32
  • Held in high veneration
    Nehemiah 2:3,5
  • Provided for the common people
    Jeremiah 26:23
  • Provided for aliens and strangers
    Matthew 27:7
  • Visited by sorrowing friends
    John 11:31
  • Pillars erected on
    Genesis 35:20
  • Tombs erected over
    Matthew 23:27-29
  • Sometimes had inscriptions
    2 Kings 23:17
  • Sometimes not apparent
    Luke 11:44
  • For criminals, marked by heaps
    Joshua 7:26
  • Were ceremonially unclean
    Numbers 19:16,18
  • Often desecrated by idolatry
    Isaiah 65:3,4

• The Jews anxious to be interred in their family places of
  Genesis 47:29-31; 49:29,30; 50:25; 2 Samuel 19:37

• Followed by a feast
  2 Samuel 3:35; Jeremiah 16:7,8; Hosea 9:4

• Privation of, considered a calamity
  Ecclesiastes 6:3

• Privation of, threatened as a punishment
  2 Kings 9:10; Jeremiah 8:2; 16:4

• An ignominious, compared to the burial of an ass
  Jeremiah 22:19

• Illustrative of regeneration
  Romans 6:4; Colossians 2:12