Bible verses about Dead, the
Scripture references about Dead, the, organized by subject from the classic topical indexes of Orville Nave and R. A. Torrey.
Dead, the in Torrey's Topical Textbook
- They who have departed this life: Ge 23:2; 25:8; Job 1:19
- TERMS USED TO EXPRESS
- Corpses: 2Ki 19:35; Na 3:3
- Carcases: Nu 14:29,32,33; 1Ki 13:24
- Those who are not: Mt 2:18
- Deceased: Isa 26:14; Mt 22:25
- CHARACTERISED BY
- Being without the Spirit: Jas 2:26
- Being incapable of motion: Mt 28:4; Re 1:17
- Ignorance of all human affairs: Ec 9:5
- Absence of all human passions: Ec 9:6
- Inability to glorify God: Ps 115:17
- Return not to this life: Job 7:9,10; 14:10,14
- Eyes of, closed by nearest of kin: Ge 46:4
- Were washed and laid out: Ac 9:37
- Were wrapped in lined with spices: Joh 19:40
- MOURNING FOR, OFTEN
- Very great: Ge 27:35; Jer 31:15; Mt 2:18; Joh 11:33
- Loud and clamorous: Jer 16:6; Mr 5:38
- By hired mourners: Jer 9:17,18; Am 5:16
- With plaintive music: Jer 48:36; Mt 9:23
- Testified by change of apparel: 2Sa 14:2
- Testified by taring the hair: Jer 16:7
- Testified by covering the head: 2Sa 19:4
- Testified by rending the garments: Ge 37:34; 2Sa 3:31
- Lasted many days: Ge 37:34; 50:3,10
- Regard often shown to the memory of: Ru 1:8
- Too soon forgotten: Ps 31:12; Ec 9:5
- Heathenish expressions of grief for, forbidden: Le 19:28; De 14:1,2
- All offerings to, forbidden: De 26:14
- Touching of, caused uncleanness: Nu 19:11,13,16; 9:6,7
- In a house rendered it unclean: Nu 19:14,15
- Even bones of, caused uncleanness: Nu 19:16; 2Ch 34:5
- A priest not to mourn for, except when near of kin: Le 21:1-3; Eze 44:25
- High priest in no case to mourn for: Le 21:10,11
- Nazarites not to touch or mourn for: Nu 6:6,7
- Those defiled by, removed from the camp: Nu 5:2
- Uncleanness contracted from, removed by the water separation: Nu 19:12,18
- IDOLATERS
- Tore themselves for: Jer 16:7
- Offered sacrifices for: Ps 106:28
- Invoked and consulted: 1Sa 28:7,8
- Consecrated part of their crops to: De 26:14
- The Jews looked for a resurrection from: Isa 26:19; Ac 24:15
- Instances of, restored to life before Christ: 1Ki 17:22; 2Ki 4:34-36; 13:21
- Instances of, restored by Christ: Mt 9:25; Lu 7:15; Joh 11:44; Ac 9:40; 20:12
- ILLUSTRATIVE OF
- Man's state by nature: 2Co 5:4; Eph 2:1,5
- A state of deep affliction, &c: Ps 88:5,6; 143:3; Isa 59:10
- Freedom from the power of sin: Ro 6:2,8,11; Col 3:3
- Freedom from the law: Ro 7:4
- Faith without works: 1Ti 5:6; Jas 2:17,26
- Diviners &c: Isa 8:19
- Impotence: Ge 20:3; Ro 4:19