Thematic Bible: Places of burial of


Thematic Bible



They buried him in his own tomb which he had cut out for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the resting place which he had filled with spices of various kinds blended by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.

And He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor; but no man knows his burial place to this day.

and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the entrance of the tomb and went away.

“Hear us, my lord, you are a mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our graves; none of us will refuse you his grave for burying your dead.”

Then his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem and buried him in his grave with his fathers in the city of David.


When his disciples heard about this, they came and took away his body and laid it in a tomb.

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared.


Then he charged them and said to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely take care of you, and you shall carry my bones up from here.”

I said to the king, “Let the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies desolate and its gates have been consumed by fire?”