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