Probable Origin Of Genesis 4:9, 10

Design Of Genesis 23:3, 4

Attended By

Family of the dead Genesis 50:5, 6, 8, Matthew 8:21

Numbers of friends, &c Genesis 50:7, 9, 2 Samuel 3:31, Luke 7:12

Female friends Mark 15:47, Luke 7:13

Hired mourners Jeremiah 9:17, 18

Great lamentation at Genesis 50:10, 11, 2 Samuel 3:31, 32

Orations Sometimes Made At 2 Samuel 3:33, 34

The Body Was

Washed before Acts 9:37

Anointed for Matthew 26:12

Wound in linen for John 11:44, 19:40

Preserved with spices John 19:39, 40

Sometimes burned before 1 Samuel 31:12

Carried on a bier to 2 Samuel 3:31, Luke 7:14

Perfumes Burned At 2 Chronicles 16:14, Jeremiah 34:5

Antiquity of Coffins For Genesis 50:26

Often Took Place Immediately after Death John 11:17, 39, Acts 5:6, 10

Of Persons Embalmed, Deferred for Seventy Days Genesis 50:3, 4

Of persons hanged, always on the days of execution Deuteronomy 21:23, John 19:31

The Right of All Nations Judges 16:31, John 19:38

Of Enemies, Sometimes Performed by the Conquerors 1 Kings 11:15, Ezekiel 39:11-14

Of the Friendless, a Kind Act 2 Samuel 2:5

Places Used For

Natural caves Genesis 23:19, John 11:38

Caves hewn out of rocks Isaiah 22:16, Matthew 27:60

Gardens 2 Kings 21:18, 26, John 19:41

Under trees Genesis 35:8, 1 Samuel 31:13

Tops of the hills Joshua 24:33, 2 Kings 23:16

Houses of the deceased 1 Samuel 25:1, 1 Kings 2:34

The city of David for the kings of Judah 1 Kings 2:10, 2 Chronicles 21:20, 24:16

Antiquity of Purchasing Places For Genesis 23:7-16

Places Of

Frequently prepared and pointed out during life Genesis 50:5, 2 Chronicles 16:14, Matthew 27:60

Members of a family interred in the same Genesis 25:10, 49:31, 2 Samuel 2:32

Held in high veneration Nehemiah 2:3, 5

Provided for the common people Jeremiah 26:23

Provided for aliens and strangers Matthew 27:7

Visited by sorrowing friends John 11:31

Pillars erected on Genesis 35:20

Tombs erected over Matthew 23:27-29

Sometimes had inscriptions 2 Kings 23:17

Sometimes not apparent Luke 11:44

For criminals, marked by heaps Joshua 7:26

Were ceremonially unclean Numbers 19:16, 18

Often desecrated by idolatry Isaiah 65:3, 4

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

Followed by a Feast 2 Samuel 3:35, Jeremiah 16:7, 8, Hosea 9:4

Privation Of, Considered a Calamity Ecclesiastes 6:3

Privation Of, Threatened as a Punishment 2 Kings 9:10, Jeremiah 8:2, 16:4

An Ignominious, Compared to the of an Ass Jeremiah 22:19

Illustrative of Regeneration Romans 6:4, Colossians 2:12