They who have departed this life
Genesis 23:2; 25:8; Job 1:19
TERMS USED TO EXPRESS Corpses
2 Kings 19:35; Nahum 3:3
Carcases
Numbers 14:29,32,33; 1 Kings 13:24
Those who are not
Matthew 2:18
Deceased
Isaiah 26:14; Matthew 22:25
CHARACTERISED BY Being without the Spirit
James 2:26
Being incapable of motion
Matthew 28:4; Revelation 1:17
Ignorance of all human affairs
Ecclesiastes 9:5
Absence of all human passions
Ecclesiastes 9:6
Inability to glorify God
Psalm 115:17
Return not to this life
Job 7:9,10; 14:10,14
Eyes of, closed by nearest of kin
Genesis 46:4
Were washed and laid out
Acts 9:37
Were wrapped in lined with spices
John 19:40
MOURNING FOR, OFTEN Very great
Genesis 27:35; Jeremiah 31:15; Matthew 2:18; John 11:33
Loud and clamorous
Jeremiah 16:6; Mark 5:38
By hired mourners
Jeremiah 9:17,18; Amos 5:16
With plaintive music
Jeremiah 48:36; Matthew 9:23
Testified by change of apparel
2 Samuel 14:2
Testified by taring the hair
Jeremiah 16:7
Testified by covering the head
2 Samuel 19:4
Testified by rending the garments
Genesis 37:34; 2 Samuel 3:31
Lasted many days
Genesis 37:34; 50:3,10
Regard often shown to the memory of
Ruth 1:8
Too soon forgotten
Psalm 31:12; Ecclesiastes 9:5
Heathenish expressions of grief for, forbidden
Leviticus 19:28; Deuteronomy 14:1,2
All offerings to, forbidden
Deuteronomy 26:14
Touching of, caused uncleanness
Numbers 19:11,13,16; 9:6,7
In a house rendered it unclean
Numbers 19:14,15
Even bones of, caused uncleanness
Numbers 19:16; 2 Chronicles 34:5
A priest not to mourn for, except when near of kin
Leviticus 21:1-3; Ezekiel 44:25
High priest in no case to mourn for
Leviticus 21:10,11
Nazarites not to touch or mourn for
Numbers 6:6,7
Those defiled by, removed from the camp
Numbers 5:2
Uncleanness contracted from, removed by the water separation
Numbers 19:12,18
IDOLATERS Tore themselves for
Jeremiah 16:7
Offered sacrifices for
Psalm 106:28
Invoked and consulted
1 Samuel 28:7,8
Consecrated part of their crops to
Deuteronomy 26:14
The Jews looked for a resurrection from
Isaiah 26:19; Acts 24:15
Instances of, restored to life before Christ
1 Kings 17:22; 2 Kings 4:34-36; 13:21
Instances of, restored by Christ
Matthew 9:25; Luke 7:15; John 11:44; Acts 9:40; 20:12
ILLUSTRATIVE OF Man's state by nature
2 Corinthians 5:4; Ephesians 2:1,5
A state of deep affliction, &c
Psalm 88:5,6; 143:3; Isaiah 59:10
Freedom from the power of sin
Romans 6:2,8,11; Colossians 3:3
Freedom from the law
Romans 7:4
Faith without works
1 Timothy 5:6; James 2:17,26
Diviners &c
Isaiah 8:19
Impotence
Genesis 20:3; Romans 4:19