Burial
1. Probable origin of. Ge 4:9,10.
2. Design of. Ge 23:3,4.
3. Attended by
a. Family of the dead. Ge 50:5,6,8; Mt 8:21.
b. Numbers of friends, &c. Ge 50:7,9; 2Sa 3:31; Lu 7:12.
c. Female friends. Mr 15:47; Lu 7:13.
d. Hired mourners. Jer 9:17,18.
e. Great lamentation at. Ge 50:10,11; 2Sa 3:31,32.
4. Orations sometimes made at. 2Sa 3:33,34.
5. The body was
a. Washed before. Ac 9:37.
b. Anointed for. Mt 26:12.
c. Wound in linen for. Joh 11:44; 19:40.
d. Preserved with spices. Joh 19:39,40.
e. Sometimes burned before. 1Sa 31:12.
f. 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. Jdj 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
a. Natural caves. Ge 23:19; Joh 11:38.
b. Caves hewn out of rocks. Isa 22:16; Mt 27:60.
c. Gardens. 2Ki 21:18,26; Joh 19:41.
d. Under trees. Ge 35:8; 1Sa 31:13.
e. Tops of the hills. Jos 24:33; 2Ki 23:16.
f. Houses of the deceased. 1Sa 25:1; 1Ki 2:34.
g. 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
a. Frequently prepared and pointed out during life. Ge 50:5; 2Ch 16:14; Mt 27:60.
b. Members of a family interred in the same. Ge 25:10; 49:31; 2Sa 2:32.
c. Held in high veneration. Ne 2:3,5.
d. Provided for the common people. Jer 26:23.
e. Provided for aliens and strangers. Mt 27:7.
f. Visited by sorrowing friends. Joh 11:31.
g. Pillars erected on. Ge 35:20.
h. Tombs erected over. Mt 23:27-29.
i. Sometimes had inscriptions. 2Ki 23:17.
j. Sometimes not apparent. Lu 11:44.
k. For criminals, marked by heaps. Jos 7:26.
l. Were ceremonially unclean. Nu 19:16,18.
m. 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.