Bible Dictionary: Burial: Places Used for Tops of the Hills

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Joshua 24:33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.
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2 Kings 23:16
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchers that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchers, and burned them on the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
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Kumaon.
... have been suppressed, such as the burial of lepers alive ... I remember riding with
confidence over places where at ... is lighter and will continue to be largely used. ...
/.../kennedy/life and work in benares and kumaon 1839-1877/chapter xx kumaon.htm

The Eighteenth Theban Dynasty
... employed in describing this temple is that used in the ... I believe that it included
the burial-places of Thutmosis I ... The tops of the pyramids were gilt, so that ...
/.../chapter iiithe eighteenth theban dynasty.htm

Syria at the Beginning of the Egyptian Conquest
... From this point the hills come so near the shore that ... docket to have come from Naharaim
has been used as a ... Niebuhr places it on the southern slope of the Masios ...
/.../chapter iisyria at the beginning.htm

The Iranian Conquest
... The term Zend-Avesta, commonly used to designate the ... Altars, however, were erected
on the tops of hills ... It follows the traditional type of burial-places in use ...
/.../chapter ithe iranian conquest.htm

The Close of the Theban Empire --(Continued)
... The same artifices which had been used by the pyramid ... Where the inscribed texts in
the burial-chamber of Unas ... it was found necessary in several places to cover ...
/.../chapter ithe close of the.htm

The Preface to the Commandments
... no small mercy to be delivered out of idolatrous places. ... Christ at a feast mentions
his burial; a good ... The Carthaginians used, at first, to send the tenth of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the ten commandments/1 3 the preface to the.htm

The First Chaldaean Empire and the Hyksos in Egypt
... rock, the ravine being in several places so narrow ... The higher ground and the
hill-tops are sometimes covered ... and Tibneh with the stone knives used by Joshua ...
/.../chapter ithe first chaldaean empire.htm

The Power of Assyria at Its Zenith; Esarhaddon and Assur-Bani-Pal
... by each other's hands, and their burial-place was ... difficult of access, which are
still used as habitations ... we should read Khubishna, and he places the country ...
/.../chapter iithe power of assyria 2.htm

The Pilgrim's Progress
... wheat and corn; but when they beheld, the tops of all ... he called for the seal, wherewith
they used to be ... that they might be known in the places whither they ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the pilgrims progress.htm

The Reaction against Egypt
... and its surrounding buildings were used for purposes of ... may have served as the
burying-places of Tutankhamon ... engineers, in search of suitable burial sites, at ...
/.../chapter iithe reaction against egypt.htm