- Probable origin of Ge 4:9,10
- Design of Ge 23:3,4
- ATTENDED BY
- Family of the dead Ge 50:5,6,8; Mt 8:21
- Numbers of friends, &c Ge 50:7,9; 2Sa 3:31; Lu 7:12
- Female friends Mr 15:47; Lu 7:13
- Hired mourners Jer 9:17,18
- Great lamentation at Ge 50:10,11; 2Sa 3:31,32
- Orations sometimes made at 2Sa 3:33,34
- THE BODY WAS
- Washed before Ac 9:37
- Anointed for Mt 26:12
- Wound in linen for Joh 11:44; 19:40
- Preserved with spices Joh 19:39,40
- Sometimes burned before 1Sa 31:12
- Carried on a bier to 2Sa 3:31; Lu 7:14
- 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
- Natural caves Ge 23:19; Joh 11:38
- Caves hewn out of rocks Isa 22:16; Mt 27:60
- Gardens 2Ki 21:18,26; Joh 19:41
- Under trees Ge 35:8; 1Sa 31:13
- Tops of the hills Jos 24:33; 2Ki 23:16
- Houses of the deceased 1Sa 25:1; 1Ki 2:34
- The city of David for the kings of Judah 1Ki 2:10; 2Ch 21:20; 24:16
- 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
The New Topical Text Book
Burial
The New Topical Text Book, R. A. Torrey (1897). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.