New Torrey's Topical Textbook: Rev. R. A. Torrey

Burial

• Probable origin of Gen. 4:9, 10
• Design of Gen. 23:3, 4
• Attended by
  • Family of the dead Gen. 50:5, 6, 8; Mt. 8:21
  • Numbers of friends, &c Gen. 50:7, 9; 2 Sam. 3:31; Lk. 7:12
  • Female friends Mk. 15:47; Lk. 7:13
  • Hired mourners Jer. 9:17, 18
  • Great lamentation at Gen. 50:10, 11; 2 Sam. 3:31, 32
• Orations sometimes made at 2 Sam. 3:33, 34
• The body was
  • Washed before Acts 9:37
  • Anointed for Mt. 26:12
  • Wound in linen for Jn. 11:44, 19:40
  • Preserved with spices Jn. 19:39, 40
  • Sometimes burned before 1 Sam. 31:12
  • Carried on a bier to 2 Sam. 3:31; Lk. 7:14
• Perfumes burned at 2 Chr. 16:14; Jer. 34:5
• Antiquity of coffins for Gen. 50:26
• Often took place immediately after death Jn. 11:17, 39; Acts 5:6, 10
• Of persons embalmed, deferred for seventy days Gen. 50:3, 4
• Of persons hanged, always on the days of execution Dt. 21:23; Jn. 19:31
• The right of all nations Judg. 16:31; Jn. 19:38
• Of enemies, sometimes performed by the conquerors 1 Ki. 11:15; Ezek. 39:11-14
• Of the friendless, a kind act 2 Sam. 2:5
• Places used for
  • Natural caves Gen. 23:19; Jn. 11:38
  • Caves hewn out of rocks Isa. 22:16; Mt. 27:60
  • Gardens 2 Ki. 21:18, 26; Jn. 19:41
  • Under trees Gen. 35:8; 1 Sam. 31:13
  • Tops of the hills Josh. 24:33; 2 Ki. 23:16
  • Houses of the deceased 1 Sam. 25:1; 1 Ki. 2:34
  • The city of David for the kings of Judah 1 Ki. 2:10; 2 Chr. 21:20, 24:16
• Antiquity of purchasing places for Gen. 23:7-16
• Places of
  • Frequently prepared and pointed out during life Gen. 50:5; 2 Chr. 16:14; Mt. 27:60
  • Members of a family interred in the same Gen. 25:10, 49:31; 2 Sam. 2:32
  • Held in high veneration Neh. 2:3, 5
  • Provided for the common people Jer. 26:23
  • Provided for aliens and strangers Mt. 27:7
  • Visited by sorrowing friends Jn. 11:31
  • Pillars erected on Gen. 35:20
  • Tombs erected over Mt. 23:27-29
  • Sometimes had inscriptions 2 Ki. 23:17
  • Sometimes not apparent Lk. 11:44
  • For criminals, marked by heaps Josh. 7:26
  • Were ceremonially unclean Num. 19:16, 18
  • Often desecrated by idolatry Isa. 65:3, 4
• The Jews anxious to be interred in their family places of Gen. 47:29-31, 49:29, 30, 50:25; 2 Sam. 19:37
• Followed by a feast 2 Sam. 3:35; Jer. 16:7, 8; Hos. 9:4
• Privation of, considered a calamity Eccl. 6:3
• Privation of, threatened as a punishment 2 Ki. 9:10; Jer. 8:2, 16:4
• An ignominious, compared to the burial of an ass Jer. 22:19
• Illustrative of regeneration Rom. 6:4; Col. 2:12