Burial

Of Jacob

• Genesis 50:5–9

  My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear. And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, …

Abner

• 2 Samuel 3:31

  And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.

Child of Jeroboam

• 1 Kings 14:13

  And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him: for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him there is found some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam.

The son of the widow of Nain

• Luke 7:12

  Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.

• Luke 7:13

  And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.

Stephen

• Acts 8:2

  And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.

By Jacob

• Genesis 49:29

  And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto 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 of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

By Joseph

• Genesis 50:25

  And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

Bought by Abraham

• Genesis 25:9

  And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;

Genesis 23

Prepared by

Jacob

• Genesis 50:5

  My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

Asa

• 2 Chronicles 16:14

  And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.

Joseph

• Matthew 27:60

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

On hills

• 2 Kings 23:16

  And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

• Joshua 24:33

  And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.

In valleys

• Jeremiah 7:32

  Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.

Family

• Genesis 47:30

  But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

• Genesis 49:29

  And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

• Acts 7:16

  And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.

Of kings

• 1 Kings 2:10

  So David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

• 2 Chronicles 32:33

  And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

A place of honor

• 2 Chronicles 24:16

  And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, both toward God, and toward his house.

• 2 Chronicles 24:25

  And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.

• 2 Chronicles 21:20

  Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years, and departed without being desired. Howbeit they buried him in the city of David, but not in the sepulchres of the kings.

For poor and strangers

• Jeremiah 26:23

  And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.

• Matthew 27:7

  And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

Tombs

In houses

• 1 Samuel 25:1

  And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

• 1 Kings 2:34

  So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

In gardens

• 2 Kings 21:18

  And 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 stead.

• 2 Kings 21:26

  And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.

• John 19:41

  Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.

In caves

• Genesis 23:9

  That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a buryingplace amongst you.

Under trees, Deborah's

• Genesis 35:8

  But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth.

King Saul's

• 1 Samuel 31:13

  And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

Closed with stones

• Matthew 27:60

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

• Matthew 27:66

  So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.

• John 11:38

  Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.

• John 20:1

  The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

Sealed

• Matthew 27:66

  So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.

Marked with pillars, Rachel's

• Genesis 35:20

  And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

And inscriptions

• 2 Kings 23:17

  Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Beth-el.

Painted and garnished

• Matthew 23:27

  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

• Matthew 23:29

  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

With shelves

• Isaiah 14:15

  Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

Demoniacs lived in

• Matthew 8:28

  And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.

Anyone who touched, were unclean

• Numbers 19:16

  And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

• Numbers 19:18

  And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone, or one slain, or one dead, or a grave:

• Isaiah 65:4

  Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

Refused to the dead

• Revelation 11:9

  And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

Robbed

• Jeremiah 8:1

  At that time, saith the LORD, 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: