Bible verses about Burial
(From Torrey's Topical Textbook)

Probable origin of Genesis 4:9,10 Design of Genesis 23:3,4 ATTENDED BY Family of the dead Genesis 50:5,6,8; Matthew 8:21 Numbers of friends, &c Genesis 50:7,9; II Samuel 3:31; Luke 7:12 Female friends Mark 15:47; Luke 7:13 Hired mourners Jeremiah 9:17,18 Great lamentation at Genesis 50:10,11; II Samuel 3:31,32 Orations sometimes made at II Samuel 3:33,34 THE BODY WAS Washed before Acts 9:37 Anointed for Matthew 26:12 Wound in linen for John 11:44; 19:40 Preserved with spices John 19:39,40 Sometimes burned before I Samuel 31:12 Carried on a bier to II Samuel 3:31; Luke 7:14 Perfumes burned at II Chronicles 16:14; Jeremiah 34:5 Antiquity of coffins for Genesis 50:26 Often took place immediately after death John 11:17,39; Acts 5:6,10 Of persons embalmed, deferred for seventy days Genesis 50:3,4 Of persons hanged, always on the days of execution Deuteronomy 21:23; John 19:31 The right of all nations Judges 16:31; John 19:38 Of enemies, sometimes performed by the conquerors I Kings 11:15; Ezekiel 39:11-14 Of the friendless, a kind act II Samuel 2:5 PLACES USED FOR Natural caves Genesis 23:19; John 11:38 Caves hewn out of rocks Isaiah 22:16; Matthew 27:60 Gardens II Kings 21:18,26; John 19:41 Under trees Genesis 35:8; I Samuel 31:13 Tops of the hills Joshua 24:33; II Kings 23:16 Houses of the deceased I Samuel 25:1; I Kings 2:34 The city of David for the kings of Judah I Kings 2:10; II Chronicles 21:20; 24:16 Antiquity of purchasing places for Genesis 23:7-16 PLACES OF Frequently prepared and pointed out during life Genesis 50:5; II Chronicles 16:14; Matthew 27:60 Members of a family interred in the same Genesis 25:10; 49:31; II Samuel 2:32 Held in high veneration Nehemiah 2:3,5 Provided for the common people Jeremiah 26:23 Provided for aliens and strangers Matthew 27:7 Visited by sorrowing friends John 11:31 Pillars erected on Genesis 35:20 Tombs erected over Matthew 23:27-29 Sometimes had inscriptions II Kings 23:17 Sometimes not apparent Luke 11:44 For criminals, marked by heaps Joshua 7:26 Were ceremonially unclean Numbers 19:16,18 Often desecrated by idolatry Isaiah 65:3,4 The Jews anxious to be interred in their family places of Genesis 47:29-31; 49:29,30; 50:25; II Samuel 19:37 Followed by a feast II Samuel 3:35; Jeremiah 16:7,8; Hosea 9:4 Privation of, considered a calamity Ecclesiastes 6:3 Privation of, threatened as a punishment II Kings 9:10; Jeremiah 8:2; 16:4 An ignominious, compared to the burial of an ass Jeremiah 22:19 Illustrative of regeneration Romans 6:4; Colossians 2:12

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