Lexicon :: Strong's G3418 - mnēma

They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?

So they named that place Kibroth-hattaavah,[fn] because there they buried the people who had craved the meat.

“Anyone in the open field who touches a person who has been killed by the sword or has died, or who even touches a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

“A person who is clean is to take hyssop, dip it in the water, and sprinkle the tent, all the furnishings, and the people who were there. He is also to sprinkle the one who touched a bone, a grave, a corpse, or a person who had been killed.

They traveled from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.

“You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, Massah, and Kibroth-hattaavah.

He was buried in his own tomb that he had made for himself in the city of David. They laid him out in a coffin that was full of spices and various mixtures of prepared ointments; then they made a great fire in his honor.

Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he chopped down the shrines[fn] that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

“‘I will indeed gather you to your ancestors, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster that I am bringing on this place and on its inhabitants.’ ”

Then they reported to the king.

“I wish[fn] I had never existed

but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

“sitting among the graves,

spending nights in secret places,

eating the meat of pigs,

and putting polluted broth in their bowls.[fn]

They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who executed him with the sword and threw his corpse into the burial place of the common people.[fn]

“Assyria is there with her whole assembly;

her graves are all around her.

All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.

“Elam is there

with all her hordes around her grave.

All of them are slain, fallen by the sword —

those who went down to the underworld uncircumcised,

who once spread their terror

in the land of the living.

They bear their disgrace

with those who descend to the Pit.

“Meshech and Tubal[fn] are there,

with all their hordes.

Their graves are all around them.

All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword,

although their terror was once spread

in the land of the living.

“Therefore, prophesy and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says: I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them, my people, and lead you into the land of Israel.