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BURIAL

  1. Probable origin of # Ge 4:9,10
  2. Design of # Ge 23:3,4
  3. 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
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