BURIAL

Passages on this topic · 72

• Genesis 23:9

  that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place.”

• Genesis 35:8

  Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.

• Genesis 35:20

  Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day.

• Genesis 47:30

  but when I sleep with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place.” He said, “I will do as you have said.”

• Genesis 49:29

  He instructed them, and said to them, “I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

• Genesis 49:30

  in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.

• Genesis 50:5

  ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’”

• Genesis 50:6

  Pharaoh said, “Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear.”

• Genesis 50:7

  Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the elders of the land of Egypt,

• Genesis 50:8

  All the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

• Genesis 50:9

  There went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.

• Genesis 50:25

  Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

• Numbers 19:16

  “Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

• Numbers 19:18

  A clean person shall take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, on all the vessels, on the persons who were there, and on him who touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or the grave.

• Deuteronomy 21:23

  his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

• Joshua 8:29

  He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.

• Joshua 24:33

  Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.

• 1 Samuel 25:1

  Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and mourned for him, and buried him at his house at Ramah. Then David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

• 1 Samuel 31:13

  They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

• 2 Samuel 3:31

  David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, and clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and mourn in front of Abner.” King David followed the bier.

• 1 Kings 2:10

  David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.

• 1 Kings 2:34

  Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

• 1 Kings 14:13

  All Israel will mourn for him and bury him; for he only of Jeroboam will come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the house of Jeroboam.

• 2 Kings 9:10

  The dogs will eat Jezebel on the plot of ground of Jezreel, and there shall be no one to bury her.’” Then he opened the door and fled.

• 2 Kings 21:18

  Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 21:26

  He was buried in his tomb in the garden of Uzza, and Josiah his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 23:16

  As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to Yahweh’s word which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

• 2 Kings 23:17

  Then he said, “What monument is that which I see?” The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel.”

• 2 Chronicles 16:14

  They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.

• 2 Chronicles 21:20

  He was thirty-two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He departed without being missed; and they buried him in David’s city, but not in the tombs of the kings.

• 2 Chronicles 24:16

  They buried him in David’s city among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

• 2 Chronicles 24:25

  When they had departed from him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and killed him on his bed, and he died. They buried him in David’s city, but they didn’t bury him in the tombs of the kings.

• 2 Chronicles 32:33

  Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem honored him at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.

• Proverbs 30:17

  “The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

• Isaiah 14:15

  Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

• Isaiah 22:16

  ‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”

• Isaiah 65:4

  who sit among the graves, and spend nights in secret places; who eat pig’s meat, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

• Jeremiah 7:32

  Therefore behold, the days come”, says Yahweh, “that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter; for they shall bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

• Jeremiah 8:1

  “At that time,” says Yahweh, “they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;

• Jeremiah 16:4

  “They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung on the surface of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.”

• Jeremiah 22:19

  He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

• Jeremiah 26:23

  and they fetched Uriah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king, who killed him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

• Jeremiah 34:5

  You will die in peace; and with the burnings of your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so they will make a burning for you. They shall lament you, saying, “Ah Lord!” for I have spoken the word,’ says Yahweh.”

• Ezekiel 25:9

  therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Beth Jeshimoth, Baal Meon, and Kiriathaim,

• Ezekiel 39:12

  Seven months shall the house of Israel be burying them, that they may cleanse the land.

• Ezekiel 39:13

  Yes, all the people of the land shall bury them; and it shall be to them a renown in the day that I shall be glorified, says the Lord Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 39:15

  Those who pass through the land shall pass through; and when any sees a man’s bone, then shall he set up a sign by it, until the undertakers have buried it in the valley of Hamon Gog.

• Matthew 8:28

  When he came to the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, two people possessed by demons met him there, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that nobody could pass that way.

• Matthew 23:27

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

• Matthew 23:29

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

• Matthew 27:7

  They took counsel, and bought the potter’s field with them, to bury strangers in.

• Matthew 27:60

  and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.

• Matthew 27:66

  So they went with the guard and made the tomb secure, sealing the stone.

• Mark 16:1

  When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

• Luke 7:12

  Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her.

• Luke 7:13

  When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, “Don’t cry.”

• Luke 7:14

  He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, “Young man, I tell you, arise!”

• Luke 23:56

  They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

• John 11:38

  Jesus therefore, again groaning in himself, came to the tomb. Now it was a cave, and a stone lay against it.

• John 19:38

  After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission. He came therefore and took away his body.

• John 19:39

  Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.

• John 19:40

  So they took Jesus’ body, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury.

• John 19:41

  Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.

• John 19:42

  Then because of the Jews’ Preparation Day (for the tomb was near at hand) they laid Jesus there.

• John 20:1

  Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene went early, while it was still dark, to the tomb, and saw the stone taken away from the tomb.

• Acts 5:9

  But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

• Acts 5:10

  She fell down immediately at his feet, and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.

• Acts 7:16

  and they were brought back to Shechem, and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a price in silver from the children of Hamor of Shechem.

• Acts 8:2

  Devout men buried Stephen, and lamented greatly over him.

• Romans 6:4

  We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.

• Colossians 2:12

  having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

• Revelation 11:9

  From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.