2 Chronicles 16:14

What does 2 Chronicles 16:14 mean?

A plain-English look at 2 Chronicles 16:14 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and divers kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

And they put him into the resting-place which he had made for himself in the town of David, in a bed full of sweet perfumes of all sorts of spices, made by the perfumer's art, and they made a great burning for him.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

and they bury him in <FI>one of<Fi> his graves, that he had prepared for himself in the city of David, and they cause him to lie on a bed that <FI>one<Fi> hath filled <FI>with<Fi> spices, and divers kinds of mixtures, with perfumed work; and they burn for him a burning--very great.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had made for himself in the city of David: and they laid him on his bed full of spices and odoriferous ointments, which were made by the art of the perfumers, and they burnt them over him with very great pomp.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had excavated for himself in the city of David, and laid him in a bed filled with spices, a mixture of divers kinds prepared by the perfumer's art; and they made a very great burning for him.

Context

v.13And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.

v.14This passage

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Exodus 30:25

    and thou shalt make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.

  • Mark 16:1

    And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

  • 2 Chronicles 21:19

    And it came to pass, in process of time, at the end of two years, that his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

  • Ecclesiastes 10:1

    Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so doth a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.

  • Genesis 50:2

    And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

  • John 19:39

    And there came also Nicodemus, he who at the first came to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds.

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