Nave’s Topical Bible
Mourning
77 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- For the dead
- Head uncovered
- Lying on the ground
- Personal appearance neglected
- Cutting the flesh
Leviticus 19:28; Leviticus 21:1-5; Deuteronomy 14:1; Jeremiah 16:6-7; Jeremiah 41:5
- Lamentations
Genesis 50:10; Exodus 12:30; 1 Samuel 30:4; Jeremiah 22:18; Matthew 2:17-18
- Fasting
- Priests prohibited, except for the nearest of kin
- For Nadab and Abihu forbidden
- Sexes separated in
- Hired mourners
2 Chronicles 35:25; Ecclesiastes 12:5; Jeremiah 9:17; Matthew 9:23
- Abraham mourned for Sarah
- The Egyptians mourned for Jacob for seventy days
- The Israelites mourned for Aaron for thirty days
- David's lamentations over
- The death of Saul and his sons
- The death of Abner
- The death of Absalom
- Jeremiah and the singing men and singing women lament for Josiah
- For calamities and other sorrows
- Ripping the garments
Genesis 37:29,34; Genesis 44:13; Numbers 14:6; Judges 11:35; 2 Samuel 1:2,11; 2 Samuel 3:31; 2 Samuel 13:19,31; 2 Samuel 15:32; 2 Kings 2:12; 2 Kings 5:8; 2 Kings 6:30; 2 Kings 11:14; 2 Kings 19:1; 2 Kings 22:11,19; Ezra 9:3,5; Job 1:20; Job 2:12; Isaiah 37:1; Jeremiah 41:5; Matthew 26:65; Acts 14:14
- Ripping the garments
- Wearing mourning clothes
See SACKCLOTH
- Cutting or plucking off the hair and beard
See BALDNESS
- Covering
- The head and the face
- The upper lip
- Laying aside ornaments
- Walking barefoot
- Laying the hand on the head
- Ashes put on the head
- Dust on the head
- Dressing in black
- Sitting on the ground
- Caused ceremonial defilement
- Prevented offerings from being accepted
See ELEGY
Bible verses about “Mourning”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Leviticus 10:6And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord hath kindled.
- Leviticus 21:10And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
- 2 Samuel 12:16David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth.
- 2 Samuel 14:2And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
- Leviticus 19:28Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
- Leviticus 21:1And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto the priests the sons of Aaron, and say unto them, There shall none be defiled for the dead among his people:
- Leviticus 21:2But for his kin, that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,
- Leviticus 21:3And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
- Leviticus 21:4But he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.
- Leviticus 21:5They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
- Deuteronomy 14:1Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
- Jeremiah 16:6Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
- Jeremiah 16:7Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
- Jeremiah 41:5That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the Lord.
- Genesis 50:10And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.
- Exodus 12:30And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
- 1 Samuel 30:4Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep.
- Jeremiah 22:18Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother! or, Ah sister! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord! or, Ah his glory!
- Matthew 2:17Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying,
- Matthew 2:18In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
- 1 Samuel 31:13And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
- 2 Samuel 1:12And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of the Lord, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
- 2 Samuel 3:35And when all the people came to cause David to eat meat while it was yet day, David sware, saying, So do God to me, and more also, if I taste bread, or ought else, till the sun be down.
- Leviticus 21:6They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
- Leviticus 21:7They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.
- Leviticus 21:8Thou shalt sanctify him therefore; for he offereth the bread of thy God: he shall be holy unto thee: for I the Lord, which sanctify you, am holy.
- Leviticus 21:9And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
- Leviticus 21:11Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
- Zechariah 12:12And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
- Zechariah 12:14All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
- 2 Chronicles 35:25And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
- Ecclesiastes 12:5Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
- Jeremiah 9:17Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
- Matthew 9:23And when Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,
- Genesis 23:2And Sarah died in Kirjath–arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
- Genesis 50:1And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.
- Genesis 50:2And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.
- Genesis 50:3And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
- Numbers 20:29And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 1:17And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son: