Dead (People)

How Nave’s arranged it

• Raised to life, (seeHebrews 11:35
• INSTANCES OF
• The son of the widow of Zarephath1 Kings 17:17–23
• The Shunammite woman's son2 Kings 4:32–37
• The young man laid in Elisha's grave2 Kings 13:21
• The widow's sonLuke 7:12–15
• Jairus' daughterLuke 8:49–55
• LazarusJohn 11:43John 11:44
• DorcasActs 9:37–40
• EutychusActs 20:9–12
• Prepared for burial by washingActs 9:37
• AnointingMatthew 26:12

The passages, in Bible order (36)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. 1 Kings 17:17–23

   Later, the son of the woman who owned the house became ill, and his sickness grew worse and worse, until no breath remained in him.

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 17:17–232 voices

   “Observe carefully the tears of that woman, and see her humility in her grief, because she does not at all blame the judgment of God or rise against the prophet. In the humility of her intellect, she recognizes that that sentence struck her because of …

   “And it came to pass after these things,....

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2. 2 Kings 4:32–37

   When Elisha reached the house, there was the boy lying dead on his bed.

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 4:32–372 voices

   “And when Elisha was come into the house,.... Of the Shunamite, and into the chamber built for him: behold, the child was dead, and laid upon the bed; upon his bed, and where he found it really dead.

   “Therefore fear had no power to raise us from the death of sin, but the infused grace of meekness erected us to the seat of life. Which is well denoted by Elisha when he raised the child of the Shunamite.

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3. 2 Kings 13:21

   Once, as the Israelites were burying a man, suddenly they saw a band of raiders, so they threw the man’s body into Elisha’s tomb. And as soon as his body touched the bones of Elisha, the man was revived and stood up on his feet.

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 13:211 voice

   “After this, another law is published. It says, "Whatever soul touches anything unclean, or the carcass of unclean beasts, and conceals it and is defiled, or if he touches the uncleanness of [a person] or anything unclean by which he is defiled," and so forth. These, to be sure, are observed by the Jews indecently and uselessly enough. And why should one who, for example, touches a dead animal or the body of a dead person be held to be impure? What if it is the body of a prophet?

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4. 2 Chronicles 16:14

   And he was buried in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the City of David. They laid him on a bier that was full of spices and various blended perfumes; then they made a great fire in his honor.

   ›Commentary on 2 Chronicles 16:142 voices

   “And laid him in the bed - It is very likely that the body of Asa was burnt; that the bed spoken of here was a funeral pyre, on which much spices and odoriferous woods had been placed; and then they set fire to the whole and consumed the body with the aromatics. Some think the body was not burned, but the aromatics only, in honor of the king. How the ancients treated the bodies of the illustrious dead we learn from Virgil, in the funeral rites paid to Misenus.

   “And they buried him in his own sepulchres which he had made for himself in the city of David,....

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5. 2 Chronicles 21:19

   This continued day after day until two full years had passed. Finally, his intestines came out because of his disease, and he died in severe pain. And his people did not make a fire in his honor as they had done for his fathers.

   ›Commentary on 2 Chronicles 21:192 voices

   “After the end of two years, his bowels fell out - The Targum seems to intimate that he had a constipation and inflammation in his bowels; and that at last his bowels gushed out. No burning - “His people made no burning of aromatic woods for him, as they had done for his forefathers.” - Targum. See on 2Ch 16:14 (note).

   “And it came to pass that in process of time, after the end of two years,....

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6. Job 3:13–19

   For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

   ›Commentary on Job 3:13–191 voice

   “MORAL INTERPRETATION. For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept, then had I been at rest. For this was man set in Paradise, that, had he attached himself by the chains of love to an obedient following of his Creator, he might one day be transported to the heavenly country of the Angels, and that, without the death of the flesh.

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7. Job 14:11–15

   As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,

   ›Commentary on Job 14:11–151 voice

   “Ver. 11, 12. As if the waters fail from the sea, and the river being emptied drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not. The mind of man is the sea, and the thoughts of his mind, as it were, a wave of the sea; which sometimes swell in anger, are made calm by grace, and from hatred run out in bitterness; but when man dieth, 'the waters of the sea fail,' in that according to the words of the Psalmist, In that very day his thoughts perish.

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8. Job 14:21

   If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.

   ›Commentary on Job 14:211 voice

   “Ver. 21. Whether his sons be in honour or dishonour, he perceiveth not. For as they, who are still living, know nothing of the souls of the dead, in what place they are held; so the dead, concerning the life of those living after them in the flesh, know not at all how it is ordered; in that both the life of the spirit is far from the life of the flesh, and as the corporeal and incorporeal are things different in kind, so are they parted in knowledge.

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9. Job 17:13–16

   If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

   ›Commentary on Job 17:13–161 voice

   “Ver. 13. If I wait, hell is mine house; and I have made my bed in the darkness. For the former Saints could undergo adversity, and yet could not, when brought out of the body, be at once freed from the regions of hell; in that He had not yet come, Who should descend thereinto without sin, that He might set free those, who were there bound by right of sin.

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10. Psalms 6:5

    For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?

    ›Commentary on Psalms 6:51 voice

    “While you are still in this world, I beg of you to repent. Confess and give thanks to the Lord, for in this world only is he merciful. Here, he is able to be compassionate to the repentant, but because there he is judge, he is not merciful. Here, he is compassionate kindness; there, he is judge. Here, he reaches out his hand to the falling; there, he presides as judge.

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11. Psalms 30:9

    “What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?

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    “The Lord's descent to earth was not useless, for it gained the whole world! Nevertheless, even after his coming in the flesh, sinners would rather be without his flesh than profit by it. You see, he took pleasure in our salvation and thought of it as a distinctive victory for himself. [By contrast], he considered our destruction a sad loss.… He praised those who doubled the grace he gave, both the one who made ten talents from five and the one who made four talents from two. Both of them had done the right thing and had profited from it.

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12. Psalms 49:15

    But God will redeem my life from Sheol, for He will surely take me to Himself. Selah

    ›Commentary on Psalms 49:151 voice

    "Nevertheless, he shall redeem my soul"; as if to say: the wicked have those things; but I shall be freed from them. And by what? Through the shedding of the blood of Christ. "He shall redeem from the hand of Hell," that is, from the …

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13. Psalms 88:10–12

    Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah

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    "Wilt thou show wonders to the dead?" Not to those who, living, are dead, but to me who live in thee. "Or shall physicians raise them up?" and the rest. Not the spices of physicians, but thou, Father, raisest me up; nor they, but I will confess among the peoples.

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14. Psalms 115:17

    It is not the dead who praise the LORD, nor any who descend into silence.

    ›Commentary on Psalms 115:171 voice

    “The festival of Easter does not consist in pleasant conversation at meals, or splendor of clothing or days of leisure but in the acknowledgment of God and the offering of thanksgiving and of praise to him.

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15. Proverbs 21:16

    The man who strays from the path of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead.

    ›Commentary on Proverbs 21:161 voice

    “The man who strays from the way of doctrine, etc. He says that the giants are unclean spirits, about which the blessed Job says, "Behold, the giants groan beneath the waters, and those who dwell with them" (Job 26:5), that is, proud and malevolent strong …

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16. Ecclesiastes 9:5

    For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.

    ›Commentary on Ecclesiastes 9:51 voice

    "For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all; there is no more reward for them, their memory is forgotten. Their love, their hate, their jealousy have already perished- nor will they ever again have a share in whatever is done beneath the sun.

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