Topical Bible: Burial: Bier

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2 Samuel 3:31
And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David himself followed the bier.
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Luke 7:14
And he came and touched the bier: and they that bore him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say to you, Arise.
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Jesus Raises the Widow's Son.
... We find no coffin in the burial of either ... Jesus was, no doubt, known to many in Nain,
and it is no wonder that those who bore the bier stood still when he ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/xliv jesus raises the widows.htm

The Burial and Assumption of the Blessed virgin
... Cross as they carried home the empty bier turned back ... on their way home immediately
after the burial, how it ... after closing the lid of the coffin and fastening ...
/.../emmerich/the life of the blessed virgin mary/xix the burial and assumption.htm

The Raising of the Young Man of Nain - the Meeting of Life and ...
... Sometimes the coffin was garlanded with myrtle ... but this custom was not observed in
the burial of women ... He recognised her as she went before the bier, leading him ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xx the raising of.htm

In Death and after Death
... The burial-dress is made of the most inexpensive linen, and bears ... the body was generally
carried open on a bier, or else in an open coffin, the bearers ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 10 in death and.htm

Synopsis. --Arbitrary Criticism of the Biblical Narratives of the ...
... fifty-three of revival in the coffin before burial ... resuscitation of the apparently
dead before burial are sufficiently ... of his saying the same at the bier of the ...
/.../miracles and supernatural religion/iii synopsis arbitrary criticism of the.htm

Homeward Bound
... Those who could not touch the bier tossed coins upon ... tongue; And ne'er was such a
burial Sin' Adam's ... before; and for better protection the coffin was simply ...
/.../marson/hugh bishop of lincoln/chapter x homeward bound.htm

The Death and the Raising of Lazarus - the Question of Miracles ...
... our attendance at the point where Christ met the bier at Nain ... or to the home of light;'
being withdrawn,' or hidden.' Burial without coffin seems to ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xxi the death and.htm

The Death of the Blessed virgin Mary at Ephesus
... After the Apostles had gone away, the women continued their preparation of the body
for burial. ... Then I saw the coffin lifted onto a bier and carried out ...
/.../emmerich/the life of the blessed virgin mary/xviii the death of the.htm

Funeral Oration on Meletius .
... of a thinking man that he would take the same pains over the burial of an ... ark," very
probably refers to the remains of Meletius, not to the coffin or bier. ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/funeral oration on meletius.htm

The Bereavements of the Christian Home. [A]
... recently heard the clods of the valley groan upon his coffin. ... When the mother is
laid upon the cold bier, and sleeps ... I heard the bell toll on the burial day, I ...
/.../philips/the christian home/chapter xxvi the bereavements of.htm