Burial

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Joshua 24:33 OT

  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.

• 2 Kings 23:16 OT

  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…

• 1 Samuel 25:1 OT

  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 Kings 2:34 OT

  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 2:10 OT

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

• 2 Chronicles 21:20 OT

  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 OT

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

• Genesis 23:7-16 OT

  Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, to the children of Heth. He talked with them, saying, “If you agree that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar, that he…

• Genesis 25:10 OT

  the field which Abraham purchased from the children of Heth. Abraham was buried there with Sarah, his wife.

• Genesis 49:31 OT

  There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:

• 2 Samuel 2:32 OT

  They took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke on them at Hebron.

• Nehemiah 2:3 OT

  I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”

• Nehemiah 2:5 OT

  I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”

• Jeremiah 26:23 OT

  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.

• Matthew 27:7 NT

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

• John 11:31 NT

  Then the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, “She is going to the tomb to weep there.”

• Genesis 35:20 OT

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

• Matthew 23:27-29 NT

  “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. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but…

• 2 Kings 23:17 OT

  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.”

• Luke 11:44 NT

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”

• Joshua 7:26 OT

  They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called “The valley of Achor” to this day.

• Numbers 19:16 OT

  “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 OT

  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.

• Isaiah 65:3 OT

  a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;