They buried him in his own tombs, which he had dug out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.
⛓ Read 2 Chronicles 16 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
King Asa's burial laid on a bier filled with spices prepared by the perfumer's art parallels the royal, spice-laden entombment of Jesus, underscoring his kingship even in death. Medium volume; matches the regal scale of the myrrh and aloes.
Medium confidenceEcho4
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
the costly ointment 'to prepare me for burial' (v12) evokes the spices and aromatic anointing laid up for an honored burial, here pre-enacted on the living body.
Medium confidenceBurial anointing with spices for a king (Asa) provides OT precedent for Jesus' reading of the nard as 'for the day of my burial.' Faint; the practice is generic enough that the link rests on theme rather than verbal contact.
Low confidenceJesus interprets the anointing as preparation 'for the burying,' resonating with Israelite burial customs of anointing the dead with spices, as at Asa's funeral with its bed of spices. This supplies the cultural background for the burial reading, though it is a custom-echo rather than a cited text.
Low confidenceHonorable royal burial in a hewn tomb with fine spices/linen colors the wrapping in clean linen and laying in a rock-cut tomb.
Low confidence