Bier

How Nave’s arranged it

• (A coffin)2 Samuel 3:31Luke 7:14

The passages, in Bible order (2)

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1. 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.

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 3:312 voices

   “David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth--David's sorrow was sincere and profound, and he took occasion to give it public expression by the funeral honors he appointed for Abner.

   “Joab - Him he especially obliged to it, to bring him to repentance for his sin, and to expose him to public shame. Followed - That is, attending upon his corps, and paying him that respect which was due to his quality.

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2. Luke 7:14

   Then He went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still. “Young man,” He said, “I tell you, get up!”

   ›Commentary on Luke 7:142 voices

   “This dead man was borne on the bier by the four material elements to the grave, but there was a hope of his rising again because he was borne on wood, which though before it did not benefit us, yet after Christ had touched it, began to profit unto life, that it might be a sign that salvation was to be extended to the people by the wood of the cross.

   “And he came and touched the bier,.... Or "bed", as the Syriac version renders it; and such was מטה, "the bier", or bed, on which one of three years old, and upward, was carried as above mentioned: so that on which Herod was carried to his grave is called κλινη "a bed", by Josephus (y).

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