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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son:
And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.
And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-14)We have here an account of Jacob’s funeral. Of the funerals of the kings of Judah, usually, no more is said than this, They were buried with their fathers in the city of David : but the funeral of the patriarch Jacob is more largely and fully described, to show how much better God was to him than he expected (he had spoken more than once of dying for grief, and going to the grave bereaved of his c…
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