Isaiah 22:16

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What right do you have here? Who are your relatives here, that you have cut out a tomb here for yourself, cutting a tomb on the height, and carving a habitation for yourself in the rock?

Cross References

Genesis 50:5

My father made me swear an oath; he said, ‘I am about to die. In the tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.’ Now therefore let me go up, so that I may bury my father; then I will return.”

2 Samuel 18:18

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself a pillar that is in the King's Valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in remembrance”; he called the pillar by his own name. It is called Absalom's Monument to this day.

2 Chronicles 16:14

They buried him in the tomb that he had hewn out for himself in the city of David. They laid him on a bier that had been filled with various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumer's art; and they made a very great fire in his honor.

Job 3:14

with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuild ruins for themselves,

Isaiah 14:18

All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;

Isaiah 14:19

but you are cast out, away from your grave, like loathsome carrion, clothed with the dead, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the Pit, like a corpse trampled underfoot.

Isaiah 22:17

The Lord is about to hurl you away violently, my fellow. He will seize firm hold on you,

Isaiah 52:5

Now therefore what am I doing here, says the Lord, seeing that my people are taken away without cause? Their rulers howl, says the Lord, and continually, all day long, my name is despised.

Micah 2:10

Arise and go; for this is no place to rest, because of uncleanness that destroys with a grievous destruction.

Matthew 27:60

and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn in the rock. He then rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb and went away.