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