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, 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 1
1:44 . 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