CREMATION

Passages on this topic · 5

• Joshua 7:25

  Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.

• 1 Samuel 31:12

  all the valiant men arose, went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth Shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burned them there.

• 2 Kings 23:20

  He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

• Amos 2:1

  Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;

• Amos 6:10

  “When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’