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Dead, The

They who have departed this life - Ge 23:2; 25:8; Job 1:19

TERMS USED TO EXPRESS

• Corpses
- 2Ki 19:35; Na 3:3
• Carcases
- Nu 14:29,32,33; 1Ki 13:24
• Those who are not
- Mt 2:18
• Deceased
- Isa 26:14; Mt 22:25

CHARACTERISED BY

• Being without the Spirit
- Jas 2:26
• Being incapable of motion
- Mt 28:4; Re 1:17
• Ignorance of all human affairs
- Ec 9:5
• Absence of all human passions
- Ec 9:6
• Inability to glorify God
- Ps 115:17

Return not to this life - Job 7:9,10; 14:10,14

Eyes of, closed by nearest of kin - Ge 46:4

Were washed and laid out - Ac 9:37

Were wrapped in lined with spices - Joh 19:40

MOURNING FOR, OFTEN

• Very great
- Ge 27:35; Jer 31:15; Mt 2:18; Joh 11:33
• Loud and clamorous
- Jer 16:6; Mr 5:38
• By hired mourners
- Jer 9:17,18; Am 5:16
• With plaintive music
- Jer 48:36; Mt 9:23
• Testified by change of apparel
- 2Sa 14:2
• Testified by taring the hair
- Jer 16:7
• Testified by covering the head
- 2Sa 19:4
• Testified by rending the garments
- Ge 37:34; 2Sa 3:31
• Lasted many days
- Ge 37:34; 50:3,10

Regard often shown to the memory of - Ru 1:8

Too soon forgotten - Ps 31:12; Ec 9:5

Heathenish expressions of grief for, forbidden - Le 19:28; De 14:1,2

All offerings to, forbidden - De 26:14

Touching of, caused uncleanness - Nu 19:11,13,16; 9:6,7

In a house rendered it unclean - Nu 19:14,15

Even bones of, caused uncleanness - Nu 19:16; 2Ch 34:5

A priest not to mourn for, except when near of kin - Le 21:1-3; Eze 44:25

High priest in no case to mourn for - Le 21:10,11

Nazarites not to touch or mourn for - Nu 6:6,7

Those defiled by, removed from the camp - Nu 5:2

Uncleanness contracted from, removed by the water separation - Nu 19:12,18

IDOLATERS

• Tore themselves for
- Jer 16:7
• Offered sacrifices for
- Ps 106:28
• Invoked and consulted
- 1Sa 28:7,8
• Consecrated part of their crops to
- De 26:14

The Jews looked for a resurrection from - Isa 26:19; Ac 24:15

Instances of, restored to life before Christ - 1Ki 17:22; 2Ki 4:34-36; 13:21

Instances of, restored by Christ - Mt 9:25; Lu 7:15; Joh 11:44; Ac 9:40; 20:12

ILLUSTRATIVE OF

• Man's state by nature
- 2Co 5:4; Eph 2:1,5
• A state of deep affliction, &c
- Ps 88:5,6; 143:3; Isa 59:10
• Freedom from the power of sin
- Ro 6:2,8,11; Col 3:3
• Freedom from the law
- Ro 7:4
• Faith without works
- 1Ti 5:6; Jas 2:17,26
• Diviners &c
- Isa 8:19
• Impotence
- Ge 20:3; Ro 4:19
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