Burial

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; 2 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; 2 Samuel 3:31,32
Orations sometimes made at 2 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 1 Samuel 31:12
- Carried on a bier to 2 Samuel 3:31; Luke 7:14
Perfumes burned at 2 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 1 Kings 11:15; Ezekiel 39:11-14
Of the friendless, a kind act 2 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 2 Kings 21:18,26; John 19:41
- Under trees Genesis 35:8; 1 Samuel 31:13
- Tops of the hills Joshua 24:33; 2 Kings 23:16
- Houses of the deceased 1 Samuel 25:1; 1 Kings 2:34
- The city of David for the kings of Judah 1 Kings 2:10; 2 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; 2 Chronicles 16:14; Matthew 27:60
- Members of a family interred in the same Genesis 25:10; 49:31; 2 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 2 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; 2 Samuel 19:37
Followed by a feast 2 Samuel 3:35; Jeremiah 16:7,8; Hosea 9:4
Privation of, considered a calamity Ecclesiastes 6:3
Privation of, threatened as a punishment 2 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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