Lord: whether we live therefore, I shall be able to separate us from or die, we are the Lord's. 1 Cor. iil, 22, 23. Whether Paul. or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. Phil. i, 21, 23. For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and be with Christ; which is far better. Rev. xiv, 13. And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea,saith the Spirit,that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. THE HOPE OF CHRISTIANS. Gen. xlix, 18. I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord! Job vii, 16. I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone: for my days are vanity. Job xiii, 15. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. Job xix, 25-27. For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another, though my reins be consumed within me. Ps. xlviii, 14. For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death. Ps. lv, 8. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. Ps. Ixxiii, 25, 26. Whom have I in heaven but thee and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. Luke ii, 29, 30. Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: For mine eyes have seen thy salvation. John xiv, 2, 3. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. Rom. vili, 38, 39. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, the love of God, which is in Christ 1 Cor. xv, 55-57. O death, where Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Cor. v, 8. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. 2 Tim. iv, 7, 8. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. DEATH A GREAT CHANGE. I-PHYSICAL CHANGE PRODUCED BY DEATHI. Gen. xxiii, 3, 4. And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight. Job xxi, 26. They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. Job xxiv, 19. Drought and heat consume the snow-waters; so doth the grave those which have sinned. Ps. xlix, 14. Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. P3. lxxx, 16. It is burnt with fire; it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance. Ps. cxli, 7. Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. Isa. xiv, 11. Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. John xi, 39. Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days. Acts xiii, 36. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption. (8ee under Body, BONES.) II. THE DEAD FORGOTTEN. Job viii, 18, 19. If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him, saying, I have not seen thee. Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow. Job xviii, 17. His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. Job xx, 8. He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found; yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. Ps. xxxi. 12. I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. Ps. lxxxviii, 4, 5. I am counted with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength. Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand. Eccles. ii, 16. For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever. Eccles. iv, 16. There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit. Eccles. viii, 10. And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done. This is also vanity. III. TOTALLY AND FOR EVER CUT OFF FROM THE WORLD. 2 Chron. xxxiv, 28. Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. they brought the king word again. So Job iii, 17-19. There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together, they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. Job x, 21. Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness, and the shadow of death." Job xiv, 11,13-15,21. As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up. Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou would est keep me secret, until thy wrath be past; that thou wouldest appoint Job xxi, 21. For what pleasure both he in his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off in the midst? P3. xlix, 10, 16-19. For he seeth fat wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. Be not thou afraid when ote is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased: For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; his glory shall not descend after him: Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and men will praise thee, when thon doest well to thyself. He shall go to the generation of his fathers, they shall never see light. Ps. Ixxviii, 39. For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. Prov. xi, 7. When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish; and the hope of unjust men per isheth. Eccles. v, 16. And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind. THE DARK REALM OF DEATH. Job x, 22. A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness. Job xviii, 18. He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. Job xxxviii, 17. Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? er hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? Eccles. xi, 8. But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity. Isa. xiv, 9, 10. Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall Speak and say unto thee, Art thon also become weak as we? art thon become like unto us? Lam. iii, 6. He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. Ezek. xvi, 20. When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go inhabited; and I shall set glory in down to the pit, that thou be not the land of the living. BODY PREPARED AND ANOINTED FOR BURIAL. Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons Lev. x, 4, 5. And Moses called of Uzziel, the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the they went near, and carried them sanctuary out of the camp. So Moses had said. in their coats out of the camp; as 2 Chron. xvi, 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. Jer. xxxiv, 4, 5. Yet hear tho word of the LORD, O Zedekiah, king of Judah; Thus saith the by the sword; But thou shalt die LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for thee; and they will lament thee, saying, Ah lord! for I have pronounced the word, saith the LORD. Matt. xxvi, 12. For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial. John xi, 44. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go. John xix, 40. Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it the manner of the Jews is to bury: in linen clothes with the spices, as Acts ix, 36, 37. Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which, by interpretation, is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and alms-deeds which she did. And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber. SOMETIMES EMBALMED. Gen. 1, 1-3, 26. And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel. And forty days were fulfilled for him; (for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed;) and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days. So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. SCENES OF MOURNING. Gen. xxiii, 2. And Sarah died in Kirjath-arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. Gen. 1, 10, 11. And they came to is beyond Jordan, and there they the threshing floor of Atad, which mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven of the land, the Canaanites, saw days. And when the inhabitants the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: whereAbel-mizraim, which is beyond fore the name of it was called Jordan. Deut. xxxiv, 8. And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended. 2 Sam. 1, 12. And they mourned and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword. 2 Sam. iil, 31-34. 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. voice, and, wept at the grave of bron: and the king lifted up his And they buried Aber in HeAbner; and all the people wept. And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth? Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters; as a man fleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him. 2 Sam. xiv, 2. And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead. 2 Sum xxl, 10. And Rizpah, the daughter of Alah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night. 1 Kings xiii, 29. And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city to mourn, and to bury him. Eccles. xii, 5.. Because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. Jer. xxxi, 15. Thus saith the LORD, A Vvoice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. Hosea ix, 4. They shall not offer wine-efferings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eatest thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD. Matt. ii, 18. In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachael weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. John xi, 33. When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came of consolation to drink for their ning women, that they may come. father or for their mother. the dead, neither bemoan him; Jer. xxii, 10-12. Weep ye not for but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country. For thus saith the LORD, touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned instead of Josiah his father, which went forth out of this place, He shall not return thither any more; But he shall die in the place whither they have led him captive, and shall see this land no more. Ezek. xxiv, 21, 23. Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword. And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another. COMFORTERS. 2 Sam. x, 3. And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto that David doth honour thy father, Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that he hath sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent the city, and to spy it out, and to his servants unto thee, to search overthrow it? For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, be cause our dwellings have cast us out. Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation. Amos v, 16, 17. Therefore the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! shall be wailing: for I will pass alas! And in all vineyards through thee, saith the LORD. Matt. ix, 23. And when Jesus came into the ruler's house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise. CERTAIN MARKS AND Lev. xix, 28. Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD. Deut. xxvi, 14. I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given have hearkened to the voice of ought thereof for the dead; but I the LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me. Deut. xiv, 1. Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall with her he groaned in the spirit, said, I will show kindness unto baldness between your eyes for not cut yourselves, nor make any the dead. and was troubled. Acts viii, 2. And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him. DEAD SOMETIMES UN LAMENTED. 1 Chron. xix, 2, 3. And David Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. comfort him concerning his father. And David sent messengers to So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort dren of Ammon said to Hanun, him. But the princes of the chilThinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land? Job xxix, 25. I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners. Jer. xvi, 3-5,7. For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land; They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth. For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning neither go to lament nor bemoan thei: for I have taken away my peace from this people, Jer. ix, 17, 19, 20. Thus saith the saith the LORD, even loving-kind- LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and ness and mercies. . . . . . Neither call for the mourning women, that shall men give them the cup I they may come; and send for cun Jews came to Martha and Mary John xi, 19. And many of the to comfort them concerning their brother. HIRED MOURNERS. 176 NECROMANCY. 1 Sam. xxviii, 7, 8. Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and said to him, Behold, there is a enquire of her. And his servants at En-dor. And Saul disguised woman that hath a familiar spirit himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night; and he said, I pray thee, spirit, and bring me him up whom divine unto me by the familiar I shall name unto thee. CERTAIN PERSONS FORBID- for his brother, And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for ber may he be defiled. And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes; Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother. Num. vi, 6. 7. All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body. He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die; because the consecration of his God is upon his head. Ezek. xliv, 25. And they shall ter, for brother, or for sister that defile themselves. NON-BURIAL A DISGRACE, PUNISHMENT. Deut. xxviii, 26. And thy car case shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away. 1 Kings xxi, 24. Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat. 2 Kings ix, 10, 36, 37. And the doga shall eat Jezebel in the portion of Jezreel, and there shall be none to bury her. And he opened the door, and fled. Wherefore they came again, and told him: and he said, This is the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying. In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel: And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel. Ps. lxxix, 2, 3. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto Their the beasts of the earth. blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them." Isa. xiv, 18-20. All the kings of the nations, eren all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house: But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden Thou shalt not be under feet. joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evil-doers shall never be renowned. Jer. vii, 33. And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away. Jer. xxxiv, 20. I will even give them into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life; and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts of the earth. Ezek. xxxix, 4. Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured. Amos viii, 3. And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord Gop: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence. Jer. viii, 2... They shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth. Jer. xxii, 19. He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. Ezek. xxxix, 20. Thus ye shall be filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty men, and with all men of war, saith the Lord GOD. Rev. xi, 8, 9. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. And they of the people, and kindreds, and tongues, and nations, shali see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. DEAD SOMETIMES BURNED. 1 Sam. xxxi, 12. All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Bethshan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there. Amos ii, 1. Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime. Amos vi, 9, 10. And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. And a man's uncle shall take him 177 up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? BURIAL. -Num. xi, 34. And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that Iusted. 2 Sam. ii, 4, 5. And the men of there they Judah came; and anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of were they that Jabesh-gilead buried Saul. messengers And David sent unto the men of Jabesh-gilead, and said unto them, Blessed be ye of the LORD, that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him. 2 Sam. xxi, 12-14. And David went and took the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son, from the men of Jabeshgilead, which had stolen them from the street of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa: And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were hanged. And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father. . . 2 Kings ix, 34. And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king's daughter. 2 Kings xili, 21. And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha; and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet. 1 Chron. x, 11, 12. And when all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul, They arose, all the valiant men, and took away the body of Sanl, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days. Ps. exlvi, 4. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish. Ezek. xxxix, 12-14. And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land. Yea, all the people of the land shall bury them: and it shall be to them a renown, the day that I shall be glorified, saith the Lord GOD. M And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land, to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search. Matth. viii, 21. And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. John xil, 7. Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. Acts v, 6, 9, 10. And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him. Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out. Then fell she down straightway at his feet, and yielded up the ghost: and the young men came in, and found her dead, and, carrying her forth, buried her by her husband. OTHER INSTANCES. Gen. 1, 7, 12-14. 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. And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them: For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre. And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father. Deut. x, 6. And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried. . . . ..... Deut. xxxiv, 5, 6. So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day. Judges xvi, 31. Then his brethren, and all the house of his father, came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol, in the burying-place of Manoali his father: and he judged Israel twenty years. 2 Sam. iv, 12. And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them | Rebekah his wife; and there [ up over the pool in Hebron: but buried Leah. they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron. 1 Kings xiv, 18. And they buried him; and all Israel mourned for him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet. 2 Chron. xxi, 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. 2 Chron. xxiv, 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. Mark vi, 29. And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb. John xi, 17. Then, when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already. Acts ii, 29. Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day. VARIOUS KINDS OF BURIAL PLACES. Gen. xxiii, 19. And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan. Gen. xxv, 9, 10. 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: The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife. Gen. xxxv, 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. Gen. xlviii, 7. And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Beth-lehem. Gen. xlix, 31. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Josh. xxiv, 30, 31. And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath - serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash. And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known ali the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel. Judges ii, 8, 9. And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash. Judges viii, 32. And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites. 1 Sam. xxv, 1. And Samuel died: and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him. and buried him in his house at Ramah. 1 Kings ii, 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. 2 Kings xxi, 18, 26. 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. And [Amos] was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead. 2 Kings xxiii, 30. And his servants carried [Josiah] in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's stead. Jer. vii, 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. Jer. xix, 11. And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Even so will I break this ' people, and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again; and they shall bury them in Tophet, till there be no place to bury. Matth. xxvii, 60. And laid it [the body of Jesus] in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a |