Burial

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• "Here I am, a stranger in a foreign land, with no place to bury my wife. Please let me have a piece of land for a burial plot." - Genesis 23:4



• to let me have the cave of Machpelah, down at the end of his field. I want to pay the full price, of course, whatever is publicly agreed upon, so I may have a permanent burial place for my family." - Genesis 23:9



• The field and the cave were sold to Abraham by the Hittites as a permanent burial place. - Genesis 23:20



• This is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, which Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite for a permanent burial place. - Genesis 49:30



• He told them, "Tell Pharaoh that my father made me swear an oath. He said to me, `I am about to die; take my body back to the land of Canaan, and bury me in our family's burial cave.' Now I need to go and bury my father. After his burial is complete, I will return without delay." - Genesis 50:5



• They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried it there in the cave of Machpelah. This is the cave that Abraham had bought for a permanent burial place in the field of Ephron the Hittite, near Mamre. - Genesis 50:13



• he sent them this message: "May the LORD bless you for being so loyal to your king and giving him a decent burial. - 2 Samuel 2:5



• All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He is the only member of your family who will have a proper burial, for this child is the only good thing that the LORD, the God of Israel, sees in the entire family of Jeroboam. - 1 Kings 14:13



• Then Jehu's men searched for Ahaziah, and they found him hiding in the city of Samaria. They brought him to Jehu, who killed him. Ahaziah was given a decent burial because the people said, "He was the grandson of Jehoshaphat--a man who sought the LORD with all his heart." None of the surviving members of Ahaziah's family was capable of ruling the kingdom. - 2 Chronicles 22:9



• So Uzziah died, and since he had leprosy, he was buried nearby in a burial field belonging to the kings. Then his son Jotham became the next king. - 2 Chronicles 26:23



• Even as a farmer breaks up the soil and brings up rocks, so the bones of the wicked will be scattered without a decent burial. - Psalms 141:7



• A man might have a hundred children and live to be very old. But if he finds no satisfaction in life and in the end does not even get a decent burial, I say he would have been better off born dead. - Ecclesiastes 6:3



• You will not be given a proper burial, for you have destroyed your nation and slaughtered your people. Your son will not succeed you as king. - Isaiah 14:20



• "And I will make a vast graveyard for Gog and his hordes in the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Dead Sea.* The path of those who travel there will be blocked by this burial ground, and they will change the name of the place to the Valley of Gog's Hordes.1 - Ezekiel 39:11



• Whenever some bones are found, a marker will be set up beside them so the burial crews will see them and take them to be buried in the Valley of Gog's Hordes. - Ezekiel 39:15

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^{New Living Translation Bible used with permission Tyndale House Publishers.}