Isaiah 22:16

New Century Version

Say to him, ‘What are you doing here? Who said you could cut out a tomb for your self here? Why are you preparing your tomb in a high place? Why are you carving out a tomb from the rock?

Cross References

Genesis 50:5

‘When my father was near death, I made a promise to him that I would bury him in a cave in the land of Canaan, in a burial place that he cut out for himself. So please let me go and bury my father, and then I will return.’ ”

2 Samuel 18:18

When Absalom was alive, he had set up a pillar for himself in the King’s Valley. He said, “I have no son to keep my name alive.” So he named the pillar after himself, and it is called Absalom’s Monument even today.

2 Chronicles 16:14

The people buried Asa in the tomb he had made for himself in Jerusalem. They laid him on a bed filled with spices and different kinds of mixed perfumes, and they made a large fire to honor him.

Job 3:14

with kings and wise men of the earth who built places for themselves that are now ruined.

Isaiah 14:18

Every king of the earth has been buried with honor, each in his own grave.

Isaiah 14:19

But you are thrown out of your grave, like an unwanted branch. You are covered by bodies that died in battle, by bodies to be buried in a rocky pit. You are like a dead body other soldiers walk on.

Isaiah 22:17

Look, mighty one! The Lord will throw you away. He will take firm hold of you

Isaiah 52:5

“Now see what has happened,” says the Lord. “Another nation has taken away my people for nothing. This nation who rules them makes fun of me,” says the Lord. “All day long they speak against me.

Micah 2:10

Get up and leave. This is not your place of rest anymore. You have made this place unclean, and it is doomed to destruction.

Matthew 27:60

He put Jesus’ body in a new tomb that he had cut out of a wall of rock, and he rolled a very large stone to block the entrance of the tomb. Then Joseph went away.