Burial
For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did
[it] for my burial....
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He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast
forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem....
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ber'-i-al (qebhurah; compare New Testament to entaphidsai):
I. IMMEDIATE BURIAL CONSIDERED URGENT
1. Reasons for This
2. The Burial of Jesus
3. The Usual Time
4. Duties of Next of Kin
II. PREPARATIONS FOR BURIAL
1. Often Informal and Hasty
2. Usually with More Ceremony
3. Contrasts between Jewish Customs and Other Peoples'
(1) Cremation
(2) Embalmi...
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Rites of
Jer 34:5
-Soon after death
De 21:23; Jos 8:29; Joh 19:38-42; Ac 5:9,10
-With spices
2Ch 16:14; Mr 16:1; Lu 23:56
-Bier (coffin) used at
2Sa 3:31; Lu 7:14
-Attended by relatives and friends
Of Jacob
Ge 50:5-9
Abner
2Sa 3:31
Child of Jeroboam
1Ki 14:13
The son of the widow of Nain
Lu 7:12,13
Stephen
Ac 8:2
-Lack of, a disg...
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[TOMBS] On this subject we have to notice --
1. The place of burial, its site and shape;
2. The mode of burial;
3. The prevalent notions regarding this duty.
1. A natural cave enlarged and adapted by
excavation, or an artificial imitation of one was the
standard type of sepulchre. Sepulchres, when the owner's
means permitted it, were commonl...
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The first burial we have an account of is that of Sarah
(Gen.
23). The first commercial transaction recorded is
that of the
purchase of a burial-place, for which Abraham
weighed to Ephron
"four hundred shekels of silver current money with
the
merchants." Thus the patriarch became the owner of a
part of the
land of Canaan, the only part he...
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The Jews entombed, if possible, or else inferred, their
dead; the rabbis alleging as a reason" Dust thou art, and
unto dust shalt thou return" (Genesis 3:19). Even enemies
received burial (1 Kings 11:15). The law ordained the same
treatment of the malefactor (Deuteronomy 21:23). Nothing but
extreme profanity on the part of the deceased during ...
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So Uzziah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his
fathers in the field of the burial which [belonged] to the
kings; for they said, He [is] a leper: and Jotham his son
reigned in his stead....
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If a man beget an hundred [children], and live many years, so
that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled
with good, and also [that] he have no burial; I say, [that] an
untimely birth [is] better than he....
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Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou
hast destroyed thy land, [and] slain thy people: the seed of
evildoers shall never be renowned....
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