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Funerals were times for expressing grief

Genesis 50:10; Acts 9:36-39

Hired musicians sometimes played a funeral dirge

Matthew 9:23

The funeral bier

2 Samuel 3:31-32; Luke 7:14

Funeral fires lit in honour of worthy kings of Judah

2 Chronicles 16:14; 2 C 19; Jeremiah 34:5

Funerals often concluded with burial in a family tomb

Genesis 49:29-31

Jesus Christ had no funeral ceremony

Luke 23:53 pp Matthew 27:59 pp Mark 15:46 pp John 19:40-42

See also

5241  burial
5275  cremation
5303  embalming
5419  mourning
5795  bereavement
9020  death
9030  dead bodies