Isaiah 22:16

God's Word

“What are you doing here? What right do you have to dig a tomb for yourself? What right do you have to cut it out in a prominent place? What right do you have to carve out a resting place for yourself in the rock?

Cross References

Genesis 50:5

‘My father made me swear an oath. He said, “I’m about to die. Bury me in the tomb I bought for myself in Canaan.” Please let me go there and bury my father; then I’ll come back.’ ”

2 Samuel 18:18

(⌞While he was still living,⌟ Absalom had taken a rock and set it up for himself in the king’s valley. He said, “I have no son to keep the memory of my name alive.” He called the rock by his name, and it is still called Absalom’s Monument today.)

2 Chronicles 16:14

They buried him in the tomb that he had prepared for himself in the City of David. They laid him on a bed full of spices and blended perfumes. And they burned a bonfire in his honor.

Job 3:14

I would be with the kings and the counselors of the world who built for themselves ⌞what are now⌟ ruins.

Isaiah 14:18

All the kings of the nations, all of them, have been buried with honor, each in his own tomb.

Isaiah 14:19

But you are thrown out of your tomb like a rejected branch. You are covered with those who were killed in battle. You go down to the stones of the pit like a trampled corpse.

Isaiah 22:17

Look, mighty man! The Lord will throw you out. He will grab you.

Isaiah 52:5

So what do I find here? asks the Lord. My people are taken away for no reason. Their rulers are screaming, declares the Lord. And my name is cursed all day long.

Micah 2:10

Get up, and go away! This is not a place to rest! It will be destroyed, completely destroyed, because it offends me.

Matthew 27:60

Then he laid it in his own new tomb, which had been cut in a rock. After rolling a large stone against the door of the tomb, he went away.