Rites of burial
Jeremiah 34:5
Soon after death
Deuteronomy 21:23; Joshua 8:29; John 19:38-42; Acts 5:9,10
With spices
2 Chronicles 16:14; Mark 16:1; Luke 23:56
Bier (coffin) used at
2 Samuel 3:31; Luke 7:14
Attended by relatives and friends
Of Jacob
Genesis 50:5-9
Abner
2 Samuel 3:31
Child of Jeroboam
1 Kings 14:13
The son of the widow of Nain
Luke 7:12,13
Stephen
Acts 8:2
Lack of a burial is a disgrace
2 Kings 9:10; Proverbs 30:17; Jeremiah 16:4; 22:19; Ezekiel 39:15
Directions given about burial, before death
By Jacob
Genesis 49:29,30
By Joseph
Genesis 50:25
Burial of Gog (multitude) requiring seven months
Ezekiel 39:12,13
BURYING PLACES
Bought by Abraham
Genesis 23; 25:9
Prepared by
Jacob
Genesis 50:5
Asa
2 Chronicles 16:14
Joseph
Matthew 27:60
On hills
2 Kings 23:16; Joshua 24:33
In valleys
Jeremiah 7:32
Family
Genesis 47:30; 49:29; Acts 7:16
Of kings
1 Kings 2:10; 2 Chronicles 32:33
A place of honour
2 Chronicles 24:16,25; 21:20
For poor and strangers
Jeremiah 26:23; Matthew 27:7
Tombs
In houses
1 Samuel 25:1; 1 Kings 2:34
In gardens
2 Kings 21:18,26; John 19:41
In caves
Genesis 23:9
Under trees, Deborah’s
Genesis 35:8
King Saul’s
1 Samuel 31:13
Closed with stones
Matthew 27:60,66; John 11:38; 20:1
Sealed
Matthew 27:66
Marked with pillars, Rachel’s
Genesis 35:20
And inscriptions
2 Kings 23:17
Painted and garnished
Matthew 23:27,29
With shelves
Isaiah 14:15
Demoniacs lived in
Matthew 8:28
Anyone who touched was unclean
Numbers 19:16,18; Isaiah 65:4
Refused to the dead
Revelation 11:9
Robbed
Jeremiah 8:1
Figurative
Isaiah 22:16; Romans 6:4; Colossians 2:12
