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vili, 17. Have the gates eh been opened unto thee? thon seen the doors of the vs of death?

p. 11, 8. But if a man live Tears, and rejoice in them let him remember the days ese; for they shall be All that cometh is vanity.

xiv, 9, 10. Hell from bemoved for thee to meet thy coming: it stirreth up As for thee, eren all the tes of the earth; it hath dp from their thrones all the the nations. All they shall and say unto thee, Art use become weak as we? art becue like unto us?

Lam. iii, 6. He hath set me in dark pluces, 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 down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living.

BODY PREPARED AND ANOINTED FOR BURIAL. Lev. x, 4, 5. And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons 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

in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.

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 the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah, king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword; But thou shalt 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 sick, and died: whom when they pass in those days, that she was

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 in the land of Canaan: and AbraKirjath-arba; the same is Hebron ham 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 days. And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: whereAbel-mizraim, which is beyond

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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; be cause they were fallen by the sword.

2 Sam. iii, 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 And they buried Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his Abner; 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 falleth before all the people wept again over wicked men, so fellest thou. And

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 Sam xxl, 10. And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah 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

of consolation to drink for their | ning women, that they may com
father or for their mother.
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are greatly confounded, becaus
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the dead, neither bemoan him;
Jer. xxii, 10-12. Weep ye not for
but weep sore for him that goeth

neither the birds of the air to rest away: for he shall return no more, out. Yet hear the word of t

on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

1 Kings xlii, 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 voice 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-offerings 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 with her he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled.

Acts vili, 2. And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.

DEAD SOMETIMES UN

LAMENTED.

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 them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the LORD, even loving-kindness and mcies...... Neither shall men give them the cup

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 his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?

1 Chron. xix, 2, 3. And David said, I will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father shewed kindness to me. And David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. So the servants of David came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him. But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest 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.

John xi, 19. And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning their brother.

HIRED MOURNERS. Jer. ix, 17, 19, 20. Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cun

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bour lamentation.

Amos v, 16, 17. Therefore the Lord, saith thus, Wailing & be in all streets; and they sh say in all the highways, A alas! . . . . . And in all vineyar through thee, saith the L-OBD. shall be wailing: for I will po

Matt. ix, 23. And when Jess came into the ruler's house saw the minstrels and the pe; making a noise.

CERTAIN MARKS AND FORMS OF MOURNING FORBIDDEN.

Lev. xix, 28. Ye shall not mr any cuttings in your flesh for t dead, nor print any marks up you: I am the LORD.

Deut. xxvi, 14. I have not est thereof in my mourning, neit! have I taken away ought ther for any unclean use, nor g have hearkened to the vol ought thereof for the dead; b the LORD my God, and have de according to all that thou L commanded me.

Deut. xiv, 1. Ye are the child" of the LORD your God: ye s not cut yourselves, nor make baldness between your eyes the dead.

NECROMANCY.

1 Sam. xxviii, 7, 8. Then s Saul unto his servants, Seel a woman that hath a f spirit, that I may go to her. enquire of her. And his servi said to him, Behold, there

woman that hath a familiar st at En-dor. And Saul dise himself, and put on other rais and he went, and two men w him, and they came to the wor by night; and he said, I pray spirit, and bring me him up wi divine unto me by the fan

I shall name unto thee.

CERTAIN PERSONS FORE

DEN TO MOURN. Lev. xxi, 1-3, 10, 11. And LORD said unto Moses, Speak the priests the sons of Aaron say unto them, There shall be defiled for the dead among people: But for his kin th near unto him, that is, ka mother, and for his father, and his son, and for his daughter, a

for his brother, And for his sister s virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for ler may he be defiled. And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the dating oil was poured, and that secrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, Brend his clothes; Neither shall go in to any dead body, nor de himself for his father, or for other.

Sam. vi, 6, 7. All the days that separateth himself unto the L he shall come at no dead dy. He shall not make himself dean for his father, or for his her for his brother, or for his r, when they die; because the cration of his God is upon

head

Ext. xliv, 25. And they shall We at no dead person to defile Beires: but for father, or for other, or for son, or for daughSr, far brother, or for sister that hhad no husband, they may defle themselves.

ON-BURIAL A DISGRACE,
AND SOMETIMES A
PUNISHMENT.

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(a be meat unto all fowls

of the air and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray

Logs zxi, 24. Him that dieth
Alb in the city the dogs shall

si hìm that dieth in the field all the fowls of the air eat.

lags ix, 10, 36, 37. And the stall eat Jezebel in the porof Jezreel, and there shall be to bary her. And he opened door, and fled. Wherefore came again, and told him: he said, This is the word of Loan, which he spake by his Elijah the Tishbite, say In the portion of Jezreel dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel: Aat the carcase of Jezebel shall as dung upon the face of the In the portion of Jezreel; so they shall not say, This is State

ixxix, 2, 3. The dead bodies by servants have they given meat unto the fowls of the ren, the flesh of thy saints unto "e beasts of the earth. Their have they shed like water ad about Jerusalem; and there Bone to bury them.

xiv, 18-20. All the kings of nations, even all of them, lie Zay, every one in his own *: But thou art cast out of thy 4 like an abominable branch, d as the raiment of those that sain, thrust through with a , that go down to the stones at the pit; as a carcase trodden

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under feet. Thou shalt not be 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 thou, and all thy bands, and the upon the mountains of Israel, 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 viil, 3. And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GoD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.

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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, shall 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

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 lusted.

2 Sam. ii, 4, 5. And the men of Judah came; and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, saying, That the men of Jabesh-gilead were they that buried Saul. And David sent unto the messengers men of Blessed te ye of the LORD, that ye Jabesh-gilead, and said unto them, 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 of Saul, and the bones of Jonathan brought up from thence the bones 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 xiii, 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 Saul, 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. cxlvi, 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.

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. vili, 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 iny 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.

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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 Manoah his father: and he judged Israel twenty years.

2 Sam. iv, 12. And David commanded his young men, and they lew them, and cut off their hands

and their feet, and hanged them | Rebekah his wife; and ther 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 hin; 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 sous 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 Mamre: The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife,

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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 the buried him in the border of inheritance in Timnath - san which is in mount Ephraim, the north side of the hill of GS And Israel served the LoRD the days of Joshua, and all days of the elders that over Joshua, and which had known the works of the LORD, th had done for Israel.

Judges ii, 8, 9. And Joshna son of Nun, the servant of LORD, died, being an hundred ten years old. And they

him in the border of his inherita in Timnath-heres, in the of Ephraim, on the north the hill Gaash.

Judges viii, 32. And Gide son of Joash died in a good age, and was buried in the chre of Joash his fath Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.

1 Sam. xxv, 1. And Samue and all the Israelites were ed together, and lamented and buried him in his boo Ramah......

1 Kings ii, 34. So Benala son of Jehoiada went up, a upon him, and slew him; was buried in his own bo the wilderness.

2 Kings xxi, 18, 26. And nasseh slept with his father was buried in the garden own house, in the garden of and Amon his son reigned stead. And [Amos] was in his sepulchre in the ga Uzza; and Josiah his son re in his stead.

2 Kings xxiii, 30. And vants carried [Josiah] in a dead from Megiddo, and be him to Jerusalem, and him in his own sepulchre the people of the land Jehoahaz the son of Josta

anointed him, and made him

in his father's stead.

Jer. vii, 32. Therefore, the days come, saith the that it shall no more be Tophet, nor the valley of t of Hinnom, but the val slaughter: for they shall b Tophet, till there be no pia

Jer. xix, 11. And shalt them, Thus saith the Le hosts, Even so will I break people, and this city, breaketh a potter's vessel cannot be made whole aga they shall bury them in 18 till there be no place to bury

Matth. xxvil, 60. And [the body of Jesus] to b new tomb, which he ba out in the rock: and he ra

et stone to the door of the yaichre, and departed. Jobs x1, 38. Jesus therefore a groaning in himself, cometh the grave. It was a cave, and te lay upon it.

To xix, 41. Now in the place ars he was crucified there was arden; and in the garden a new tichre, wherein Was never ayet laid.

vii, 16. And [the bones of and Joseph] were carried sychem, and laid in the Sare that Abraham bought m of money of the sons of the father of Sychem.

RIAL PLACE OF THE KINGS OF JUDAH. Bagi xiv, 30, 31. And there r between Rehoboam and be all their days. And bean slept with his fathers, was buried with his fathers city of David: and his

name was Naamah an ess; and Abijam his son in his stead.

That IV, 8, 24. And Abijam This fathers; and they

in the city of David: son reigned in his And Asa slept with his d was buried with his the city of David his Jehoshaphat his son

din his stead.

xxii, 50. And Jehoshawith his fathers, and ined with his fathers in the David his father, and JeI his son reigned in his

Mgr vill, 24. And Joram w his fathers, and was .th his fathers in the city and Ahaziah his son en his stead.

Megiddo, and died there. And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.

2 Kings xii, 21. For Jozachar the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad the son of Shomer, his servants, smote [Joash,] and he died; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Amaziah his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kings xiv, 20. brought him [Amaziah] on horses; And they and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

2 Kings xv, 7, 38. So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead. And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

2 Kings xvi, 20. And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

2 Chron. xxxii, 33. And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

MONUMENTS.

Josh. vii, 26. And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger; wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.

ix, 27, 28. But when Josh. viii, 29. And the king of the king of Judah saw At he hanged on a tree until evenfed by the way of the tide: and as soon as the sun was bouse. And Jehu follow-down, Joshua commanded that raim, and said, Smite him they should take his carcase down the chariot. And they did from the tree, and cast it at the going up to Gur, which entering of the gate of the city, And he fled to and raise thereon a great heap of

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stones, that remaineth unto this day.

2 Sam. xviii, 17. And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.

2 Kings xxiii, 17. Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, thou hast done against the altar and proclaimed these things that of Beth-el.

Isa. lxv, 3, 4. A people that to my face; that sacrificeth in garprovoketh me to anger continually dens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; among the graves, and lodge in Which remain the monuments.

Matth. xxiii, 27. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

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Luke xi, 47. Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Matth. viii, 22. But Jesus said

unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

Luke ix, 59, 60. And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, Suffer me first to go and bury my father. Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead; but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

Rom. vi, 4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Çol. ii, 12. Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

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