Burial

–Rites of Jer 34:5

–Soon after death De 21:23; Jos 8:29; Joh 19:38-42; Ac 5:9,10

–With spices 2Ch 16:14; Mr 16:1; Lu 23:56

–Bier (coffin) used at 2Sa 3:31; Lu 7:14

–Attended by relatives and friends

Of Jacob Ge 50:5-9

Abner 2Sa 3:31

Child of Jeroboam 1Ki 14:13

The son of the widow of Nain Lu 7:12,13

Stephen Ac 8:2

–Lack of, a disgrace 2Ki 9:10; Pr 30:17; Jer 16:4; 22:19; Eze 39:15

–Directions given about, before death

By Jacob Ge 49:29,30

By Joseph Ge 50:25

–Burial of Gog (multitude) requiring seven months Eze 39:12,13

–BURYING PLACES

Bought by Abraham Ge 23; 25:9

Prepared by

Jacob Ge 50:5

Asa 2Ch 16:14

Joseph Mt 27:60

On hills 2Ki 23:16; Jos 24:33

In valleys Jer 7:32

Family Ge 47:30; 49:29; Ac 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; Mt 27:7

Tombs

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

In gardens 2Ki 21:18,26; Joh 19:41

In caves Ge 23:9

Under trees, Deborah’s Ge 35:8

King Saul’s 1Sa 31:13

Closed with stones Mt 27:60,66; Joh 11:38; 20:1

Sealed Mt 27:66

Marked with pillars, Rachel’s Ge 35:20

And inscriptions 2Ki 23:17

Painted and garnished Mt 23:27,29

With shelves Isa 14:15

Demoniacs lived in Mt 8:28

Anyone who touched, were unclean Nu 19:16,18; Isa 65:4

Refused to the dead Re 11:9

Robbed Jer 8:1

See CREMATION

See DEAD, THE

See DEATH

See ELEGY

See GRAVE

See MOURNING

–FIGURATIVE Isa 22:16; Ro 6:4; Col 2:12