Quotes about Burial
No one enters into the experience of entire sanctification without going through a "white funeral" - the burial of the old life
- Oswald Chambers
She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.
- Genesis 23:2
“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
- Genesis 23:4
“If you are willing for me to bury my dead,” he said to them, “listen to me, and approach Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf
- Genesis 23:8
to sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me in your presence for full price, so that I may have a burial site.”
- Genesis 23:9
“No, my lord. Listen to me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. I give it to you in the presence of my people. Bury your dead.”
- Genesis 23:11
After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 23:19
So the field and its cave were deeded by the Hittites to Abraham as a burial site.
- Genesis 23:20
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.
- Genesis 25:9
So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
- Genesis 35:19
Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
- Genesis 35:29
When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,
- Genesis 47:29