The Dead
82 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
46 sections
- A Priest not to Mourn For, Except when Near of Kin
- A State of Deep Affliction
- All offerings To, Forbidden
- Characterised by Absence of all Human Passions
- Characterised by Being Incapable of Motion
- Characterised by Being Without the Spirit
- Characterised by Ignorance of all Human Affairs
- Characterised by Inability to Glorify God
- Diviners
- Even Bones of, Caused Uncleanness
- Eyes of, Closed by Nearest of Kin
- Faith Without Works
- Freedom from the Law
- Freedom from the Power of Sin
- Heathenish Expressions of Grief For, Forbidden
- High Priest in No Case to Mourn For
- Idolaters: Consecrated Part of Their Crops To
- Idolaters: Invoked and Consulted
- Idolaters: Offered Sacrifices For
- Idolaters: Tore Themselves For
- Impotence
- Instances of, Restored by Christ
- Instances of, Restored to Life Before Christ
- Man's State by Nature
- Mourning For, often by Hired Mourners
- Mourning For, often with Plaintive Music
- Mourning For, often: Lasted Many Days
- Mourning For, often: Loud and Clamorous
- Mourning For, often: Testified by Change of Apparel
- Mourning For, often: Testified by Covering the Head
- Mourning For, often: Testified by Taring the Hair
- Mourning For, often: Testified by Tearing the Garments
- Mourning For, often: Very Great
- Nazarites not to Touch or Mourn For
- Regard often Shown to the Memory of
- Return not to This Life
- Terms Used to Express: Carcases
- Terms Used to Express: Corpses
- Terms Used to Express: Deceased
- Terms Used to Express: Those Who are Not
- The Jews Looked for a Resurrection From
- They Who Have Departed This Life
- Those Defiled By, Removed from the Camp
- Too Soon Forgotten
- Touching of, Caused Uncleanness
- Uncleanness Contracted From, Removed by the Water Separation
A Priest not to Mourn For, Except when Near of Kin
- Leviticus 21:1–3 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to Aaron’s sons, the priests, and tell them that a priest is not to defile himself for a dead person among his people, …
- Ezekiel 44:25 A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person. However, for a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, a brother, or an unmarried sister, he may do so,
A State of Deep Affliction
- Psalm 88:5–6 I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care. …
- Psalm 143:3 For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
- Isaiah 59:10 Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.
All offerings To, Forbidden
- Deuteronomy 26:14 I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done everything You commanded me.
Characterised by Absence of all Human Passions
- Ecclesiastes 9:6 Their love, their hate, and their envy have already vanished, and they will never again have a share in all that is done under the sun.
Characterised by Being Incapable of Motion
- Matthew 28:4 The guards trembled in fear of him and became like dead men.
- Revelation 1:17 When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,
Characterised by Being Without the Spirit
- James 2:26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
Characterised by Ignorance of all Human Affairs
- 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.
Characterised by Inability to Glorify God
- Psalm 115:17 It is not the dead who praise the LORD, nor any who descend into silence.
Diviners
- Isaiah 8:19 When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
Even Bones of, Caused Uncleanness
- Numbers 19:16 Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
- 2 Chronicles 34:5 Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
Eyes of, Closed by Nearest of Kin
- Genesis 46:4 I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will surely bring you back. And Joseph’s own hands will close your eyes.”
Faith Without Works
- 1 Timothy 5:6 But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.
- James 2:17 So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead.
- James 2:26 As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
Freedom from the Law
- Romans 7:4 Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.
Freedom from the Power of Sin
- Romans 6:2 Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?
- Romans 6:8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.
- Romans 6:11 So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
- Colossians 3:3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
Heathenish Expressions of Grief For, Forbidden
- Leviticus 19:28 You must not make any cuts in your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves. I am the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 14:1–2 You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead, …
High Priest in No Case to Mourn For
- Leviticus 21:10–11 The priest who is highest among his brothers, who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair hang loose or tear his garments. …
Idolaters: Consecrated Part of Their Crops To
- Deuteronomy 26:14 I have not eaten any of the sacred portion while in mourning, or removed any of it while unclean, or offered any of it for the dead. I have obeyed the LORD my God; I have done everything You commanded me.
Idolaters: Invoked and Consulted
- 1 Samuel 28:7–8 Then Saul said to his servants, “Find me a woman who is a medium, so I can go and consult her.” “There is a medium at Endor,” his servants replied. …
Idolaters: Offered Sacrifices For
- Psalm 106:28 They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
Idolaters: Tore Themselves For
- Jeremiah 16:7 No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.
Impotence
- Genesis 20:3 One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
- Romans 4:19 Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.
Instances of, Restored by Christ
- Matthew 9:25 After the crowd had been put outside, Jesus went in and took the girl by the hand, and she got up.
- Luke 7:15 And the dead man sat up and began to speak! Then Jesus gave him back to his mother.
- John 11:44 The man who had been dead came out with his hands and feet bound in strips of linen, and his face wrapped in a cloth. “Unwrap him and let him go,” Jesus told them.
- Acts 9:40 Then Peter sent them all out of the room. He knelt down and prayed, and turning toward her body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up.
- Acts 20:12 And the people were greatly relieved to take the boy home alive.
Instances of, Restored to Life Before Christ
- 1 Kings 17:22 And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah, and the child’s life returned to him, and he lived.
- 2 Kings 4:34–36 Then Elisha got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eye to eye, and hand to hand. As he stretched himself out over him, the boy’s body became warm. …
- 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.
Man's State by Nature
- 2 Corinthians 5:4 For while we are in this tent, we groan under our burdens, because we do not wish to be unclothed but clothed, so that our mortality may be swallowed up by life.
- Ephesians 2:1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
- Ephesians 2:5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
Mourning For, often by Hired Mourners
- Jeremiah 9:17–18 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them. …
- Amos 5:16 Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
Mourning For, often with Plaintive Music
- Jeremiah 48:36 Therefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres, because the wealth they acquired has perished.
- Matthew 9:23 When Jesus entered the house of the synagogue leader, He saw the flute players and the noisy crowd.
Mourning For, often: Lasted Many Days
- Genesis 37:34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
- Genesis 50:3 taking the forty days required to complete the embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.
- Genesis 50:10 When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wailed loudly, and Joseph mourned for his father seven days.
Mourning For, often: Loud and Clamorous
- Jeremiah 16:6 “Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.
- Mark 5:38 When they arrived at the house of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw the commotion and the people weeping and wailing loudly.
Mourning For, often: Testified by Change of Apparel
- 2 Samuel 14:2 So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.
Mourning For, often: Testified by Covering the Head
- 2 Samuel 19:4 But the king covered his face and cried out at the top of his voice, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”
Mourning For, often: Testified by Taring the Hair
- Jeremiah 16:7 No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.
Mourning For, often: Testified by Tearing the Garments
- Genesis 37:34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
- 2 Samuel 3:31 Then David ordered Joab and all the people with him, “Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner.” And King David himself walked behind the funeral bier.
Mourning For, often: Very Great
- Genesis 27:35 But Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
- Jeremiah 31:15 This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
- Matthew 2:18 “A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
- John 11:33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
Nazarites not to Touch or Mourn For
- Numbers 6:6–7 Throughout the days of his separation to the LORD, he must not go near a dead body. …
Regard often Shown to the Memory of
- Ruth 1:8 Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.
Return not to This Life
- Job 7:9–10 As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come back up. …
- Job 14:10 But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
- Job 14:14 When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
Terms Used to Express: Carcases
- Numbers 14:29 Your bodies will fall in this wilderness— all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older— because you have grumbled against Me.
- Numbers 14:32–33 As for you, however, your bodies will fall in this wilderness. …
- 1 Kings 13:24 As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.
Terms Used to Express: Corpses
- 2 Kings 19:35 And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
- Nahum 3:3 Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over their dead—
Terms Used to Express: Deceased
- Isaiah 26:14 The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
- Matthew 22:25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died without having children. So he left his wife to his brother.
Terms Used to Express: Those Who are Not
- Matthew 2:18 “A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
The Jews Looked for a Resurrection From
- Isaiah 26:19 Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
- Acts 24:15 and I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
They Who Have Departed This Life
- Genesis 23:2 She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.
- Genesis 25:8 And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.
- Job 1:19 when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
Those Defiled By, Removed from the Camp
- Numbers 5:2 “Command the Israelites to send away from the camp anyone with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, and anyone who is defiled by a dead body.
Too Soon Forgotten
- Psalm 31:12 I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.
- 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.
Touching of, Caused Uncleanness
- Numbers 19:11 Whoever touches any dead body will be unclean for seven days.
- Numbers 19:13 Anyone who touches a human corpse and fails to purify himself defiles the tabernacle of the LORD. That person must be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean, because the water of purification has not been sprinkled on him, and …
- Numbers 19:16 Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
- Numbers 9:6–7 But there were some men who were unclean due to a dead body, so they could not observe the Passover on that day. And they came before Moses and Aaron that same day …
Uncleanness Contracted From, Removed by the Water Separation
- Numbers 19:12 He must purify himself with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then he will be clean. But if he does not purify himself on the third and seventh days, he will not be clean.
- Numbers 19:18 Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to take some hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, or a person …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.