Bible Dictionary: Burial: Burying Places for Poor and Strangers

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Jeremiah 26:23
And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him to Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
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Matthew 27:7
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
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The Death and the Raising of Lazarus - the Question of Miracles ...
... From the narrative we infer that the burial of Lazarus ... 4796] But cemeteries, or common
burying-places, appear in ... to have been used only for the poor, [4797] or ...
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Symbolic Ornaments of the Church
... the mouth of Adam before his burial, and three ... the catacombs"the underground and
secret burying-places of the ... Thomas gave to the poor the money intrusted to ...
/.../regester/the worship of the church/symbolic ornaments of the church.htm

The First Theban Empire
... In other places there was a regular alternation of lengths of curved courses, with ...
the soil is poor, life hard and precarious, and from remotest antiquity the ...
/.../chapter iiithe first theban empire.htm

Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
... Niebuhr places it on the southern slope of the Masios, in Mygdonia; Th. ... while living
within a distance of a mile or two, would be as great strangers to each ...
/.../chapter iisyria at the beginning.htm

Letter xxii. St. Ambrose in a Letter to his Sister Gives an ...
... seized and thrown prostrate at the holy burial-place ... relics are taken out of an ignoble
burying-place, the ... had carried off the martyrs of other places had lost ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/letter xxii st ambrose in.htm

The Political Constitution of Egypt
... formed an almost uninterrupted chain of burying-places on the ... victims formerly
sacrificed at the burial of a ... their walls are destroyed, their places no more ...
/.../chapter ithe political constitution of.htm

The Reaction against Egypt
... the decoration of them is very poor, for art ... which may have served as the
burying-places of Tutankhamon ... some engineers, in search of suitable burial sites, ...
/.../chapter iithe reaction against egypt.htm

Carey's Last Days
... strong, and extend not merely to persons but places. ... In September of that year, when
burying Mrs. Ward ... carried William Carey to the converts' burial-ground and ...
/.../smith/the life of william carey/chapter xvi careys last days.htm

The Ancestral Home
... it, and his name, in all the places where he ... He went forth visiting the sick, burying
the dead, collecting ... she was there to robe the departed one for burial. ...
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Of the Last Resurrection.
... Abraham have been so anxious about the burial of his ... too, the name of cemetery, applied
to burying-grounds. ... lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places," (Ps.16 ...
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