Burial

Probable origin of Ge 4:9,10

Design of Ge 23:3,4

ATTENDED BY

• Family of the dead Ge 50:5,6,8; Mt 8:21
• Numbers of friends, &c Ge 50:7,9; 2Sa 3:31; Lu 7:12
• Female friends Mr 15:47; Lu 7:13
• Hired mourners Jer 9:17,18
• Great lamentation at Ge 50:10,11; 2Sa 3:31,32

Orations sometimes made at 2Sa 3:33,34

THE BODY WAS

• Washed before Ac 9:37
• Anointed for Mt 26:12
• Wound in linen for Joh 11:44; 19:40
• Preserved with spices Joh 19:39,40
• Sometimes burned before 1Sa 31:12
• Carried on a bier to 2Sa 3:31; Lu 7:14

Perfumes burned at 2Ch 16:14; Jer 34:5

Antiquity of coffins for Ge 50:26

Often took place immediately after death Joh 11:17,39; Ac 5:6,10

Of persons embalmed, deferred for seventy days Ge 50:3,4

Of persons hanged, always on the days of execution De 21:23; Joh 19:31

The right of all nations Jud 16:31; Joh 19:38

Of enemies, sometimes performed by the conquerors 1Ki 11:15; Eze 39:11-14

Of the friendless, a kind act 2Sa 2:5

PLACES USED FOR

• Natural caves Ge 23:19; Joh 11:38
• Caves hewn out of rocks Isa 22:16; Mt 27:60
• Gardens 2Ki 21:18,26; Joh 19:41
• Under trees Ge 35:8; 1Sa 31:13
• Tops of the hills Jos 24:33; 2Ki 23:16
• Houses of the deceased 1Sa 25:1; 1Ki 2:34
• The city of David for the kings of Judah 1Ki 2:10; 2Ch 21:20; 24:16

Antiquity of purchasing places for Ge 23:7-16

PLACES OF

• Frequently prepared and pointed out during life Ge 50:5; 2Ch 16:14; Mt 27:60
• Members of a family interred in the same Ge 25:10; 49:31; 2Sa 2:32
• Held in high veneration Ne 2:3,5
• Provided for the common people Jer 26:23
• Provided for aliens and strangers Mt 27:7
• Visited by sorrowing friends Joh 11:31
• Pillars erected on Ge 35:20
• Tombs erected over Mt 23:27-29
• Sometimes had inscriptions 2Ki 23:17
• Sometimes not apparent Lu 11:44
• For criminals, marked by heaps Jos 7:26
• Were ceremonially unclean Nu 19:16,18
• Often desecrated by idolatry Isa 65:3,4

The Jews anxious to be interred in their family places of Ge 47:29-31; 49:29,30; 50:25; 2Sa 19:37

Followed by a feast 2Sa 3:35; Jer 16:7,8; Ho 9:4

Privation of, considered a calamity Ec 6:3

Privation of, threatened as a punishment 2Ki 9:10; Jer 8:2; 16:4

An ignominious, compared to the burial of an ass Jer 22:19

Illustrative of regeneration Ro 6:4; Col 2:12