Isaiah 22:16

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Shebna, what gives you the right to have a tomb carved out of rock in this burial place of royalty? None of your relatives are buried here.

Cross References

Genesis 50:5

Just before my father died, he made me promise to bury him in his burial cave in Canaan. If the king will give me permission to go, I will come back here.”

2 Samuel 18:18

When Absalom was alive, he had set up a stone monument for himself in King's Valley. He explained, “I don't have any sons to keep my name alive.” He called it Absalom's Monument, and that is the name it still has today.

2 Chronicles 16:14

Earlier, Asa had his own tomb cut out of a rock hill in Jerusalem. So he was buried there, and the tomb was filled with spices and sweet-smelling oils. Then the people built a bonfire in his honour.

Job 3:14

with kings and their advisers whose palaces lie in ruins,

Isaiah 14:18

When kings die, they are buried in glorious tombs.

Isaiah 14:19

But you will be left unburied, just another dead body lying underfoot like a broken branch. You will be one of many killed in battle and gone down to the deep rocky pit.

Isaiah 22:17

You may be powerful, but the LORD is about to snatch you up and throw you away.

Isaiah 52:5

and now another nation has taken you prisoner for no reason at all. Your leaders groan with pain, and day after day my own name is cursed.

Micah 2:10

Get out of here, you crooks! You'll find no rest here. You're not fit to belong to the LORD's people, and you will be destroyed.

Matthew 27:60

Then Joseph put the body in his own tomb that had been cut into solid rock and had never been used. He rolled a big stone against the entrance to the tomb and went away.