Burial: Burying Places in Caves

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Genesis 23:9
That he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field; for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me for a possession of a burial plot among you.
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Of the Places of Burial.
... The common were in public burying-places, as it is with us ... if any one sells his
neighbour a place of burial, he sells him room for two caves, or hollows ...
/.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 100 of the places.htm

In Death and after Death
... The burial-dress is made of the most inexpensive linen, and ... We read of public and
private burying-places"the latter chiefly in gardens and caves. ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 10 in death and.htm

The Death and the Raising of Lazarus - the Question of Miracles ...
... For, every indignity was shown at the burial of an ... of Palestine (in Rome, and other
places), written in ... which was supposed to complete the burying-place, or ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xxi the death and.htm

Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
... placed Padan and Alman in the mountains to the east of the Diyaleh; Jensen places
them in ... gardens; but the bulk of the people lived in tents or in caves on the ...
/.../chapter iisyria at the beginning.htm

The Life of Mr. Alexander Peden.
... as are alive, who were at his burial, shall be ... thee, O Scotland.3dly, The fertilest
places in Scotland ... from God, in breaking, burning and burying his covenant ...
/.../howie/biographia scoticana scots worthies/the life of mr alexander 2.htm

Pagan Cemeteries.
... They have two or three favorite halting-places, for instance ... know that the Greens
themselves had their burial-ground on ... easy of access, that the burying of a ...
/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/chapter vi pagan cemeteries.htm

The Hebrews and the Philistines --Damascus
... jeoparded their lives unto the death,"and Naphtali upon the high places of the ... the
slightest alarm, abandon their possessions to take refuge in caves or in ...
/.../chapter iiithe hebrews and the.htm

The First Chaldaean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt
... between two cliffs of perpendicular rock, the ravine being in several places so
narrow ... The caves noticed by Hedenborg at Ant-Elias, near Tripoli, and by Botta ...
/.../chapter ithe first chaldaean empire.htm

Tiglath-Pileser iii. And the Organisation of the Assyrian Empire ...
... He no longer reveals Himself at all times and in all places, but works rather by
night, and appears to men in their dreams, or, when circumstances require His ...
/.../chapter iitiglath-pileser iii and the.htm

Period I: the Imperial State Church of the Undivided Empire, or ...
... Therefore we prescribe as to the buildings of their churches and places suitable
for burial that they are to possess, without any molestation, those buildings ...
/.../ayer/a source book for ancient church history/period i the imperial state.htm