BURIAL
BURIAL
- Probable origin of # Ge 4:9,10
- Design of # Ge 23:3,4
- ATTENDED BY 3a) Family of the dead
# Ge 50:5,6,8 Mt 8:21
3b) Numbers of friends, &c # Ge 50:7,9 2Sa 3:31 Lu 7:12 3c) Female friends # Mr 15:47 Lu 7:13 3d) Hired mourners # Jer 9:17,18 3e) Great lamentation at # Ge 50:10,11 2Sa 3:31,32 4) Orations sometimes made at # 2Sa 3:33,34 5) THE BODY WAS 5a) Washed before # Ac 9:37 5b) Anointed for # Mt 26:12 5c) Wound in linen for # Joh 11:44 19:40 5d) Preserved with spices # Joh 19:39,40 5e) Sometimes burned before # 1Sa 31:12 5f) Carried on a bier to # 2Sa 3:31 Lu 7:14 6) Perfumes burned at # 2Ch 16:14 Jer 34:5 7) Antiquity of coffins for # Ge 50:26 8) Often took place immediately after death # Joh 11:17,39 Ac 5:6,10 9) Of persons embalmed, deferred for seventy days # Ge 50:3,4 10) Of persons hanged, always on the days of execution # De 21:23 Joh 19:31 11) The right of all nations # Jud 16:31 Joh 19:38 12) Of enemies, sometimes performed by the conquerors # 1Ki 11:15 Eze 39:11-14 13) Of the friendless, a kind act # 2Sa 2:5 14) PLACES USED FOR 14a) Natural caves # Ge 23:19 Joh 11:38 14b) Caves hewn out of rocks # Isa 22:16 Mt 27:60 14c) Gardens # 2Ki 21:18,26 Joh 19:41 14d) Under trees # Ge 35:8 1Sa 31:13 14e) Tops of the hills # Jos 24:33 2Ki 23:16 14f) Houses of the deceased # 1Sa 25:1 1Ki 2:34 14g) The city of David for the kings of Judah # 1Ki 2:10 2Ch 21:20 24:16 15) Antiquity of purchasing places for # Ge 23:7-16 16) PLACES OF 16a) Frequently prepared and pointed out during life # Ge 50:5 2Ch 16:14 Mt 27:60 16b) Members of a family interred in the same # Ge 25:10 49:31 2Sa 2:32 16c) Held in high veneration # Ne 2:3,5 16d) Provided for the common people # Jer 26:23 16e) Provided for aliens and strangers # Mt 27:7 16f) Visited by sorrowing friends # Joh 11:31 16g) Pillars erected on # Ge 35:20 16h) Tombs erected over # Mt 23:27-29 16i) Sometimes had inscriptions # 2Ki 23:17 16j) Sometimes not apparent # Lu 11:44 16k) For criminals, marked by heaps # Jos 7:26 16l) Were ceremonially unclean # Nu 19:16,18 16m) Often desecrated by idolatry # Isa 65:3,4 17) The Jews anxious to be interred in their family places of # Ge 47:29-31 49:29,30 50:25 2Sa 19:37 18) Followed by a feast # 2Sa 3:35 Jer 16:7,8 Ho 9:4 19) Privation of, considered a calamity # Ec 6:3 20) Privation of, threatened as a punishment # 2Ki 9:10 Jer 8:2 16:4 21) An ignominious, compared to the burial of an ass # Jer 22:19 22) Illustrative of regeneration # Ro 6:4 Col 2:12