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