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In the biblical context, "resting-places" often refer to locations or moments of respite and peace, both physically and spiritually. These places are significant in the narrative of God's people, symbolizing divine provision, guidance, and the ultimate rest found in God.

Old Testament References

1. Physical Resting-places: The Israelites' journey from Egypt to the Promised Land is marked by various resting-places. In Numbers 10:33, the Ark of the Covenant is described as going before the Israelites "to seek out a resting place for them." These stops were not random but divinely orchestrated, providing the Israelites with necessary rest and sustenance during their wilderness wanderings.

2. Spiritual Rest: The concept of resting-places extends beyond physical locations to spiritual rest. In Psalm 23:2, David writes, "He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters." Here, the resting-places are symbolic of God's provision and peace, offering restoration to the soul.

3. Prophetic Imagery: Isaiah 11:10 speaks of a future resting-place associated with the Messiah: "In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples; the nations will rally to Him, and His resting place will be glorious." This prophecy points to a time of peace and rest under the reign of the Messiah, a theme that resonates with the hope of eternal rest in God's kingdom.

New Testament Insights

1. Jesus as the Source of Rest: In the New Testament, Jesus invites those who are weary to find rest in Him. Matthew 11:28-29 records His words: "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls." Here, Jesus Himself is the ultimate resting-place, offering spiritual rest and relief from the burdens of life.

2. Sabbath Rest: The concept of resting-places is also tied to the Sabbath, a day of rest instituted by God. Hebrews 4:9-10 speaks of a "Sabbath rest for the people of God," indicating that believers enter into a spiritual rest through faith in Christ, ceasing from their own works as God did from His.

3. Eternal Rest: Revelation 14:13 provides a glimpse of the eternal resting-place for believers: "Then I heard a voice from heaven say, 'Write: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.' 'Yes,' says the Spirit, 'they will rest from their labor, for their deeds will follow them.'" This passage assures believers of the ultimate rest in the presence of God, free from earthly toil and struggle.

Theological Significance

Resting-places in the Bible are deeply theological, representing God's care and provision for His people. They serve as reminders of His faithfulness and the promise of eternal rest. The physical resting-places during the Israelites' journey foreshadow the spiritual rest found in Christ, who fulfills the promise of peace and restoration. The ultimate resting-place is in the presence of God, where believers will experience perfect rest and joy for eternity.

Strong's Hebrew

4496. menuchah -- resting place, rest
... Usage comforting (1), permanent (1), place (1), place of rest (1), quartermaster*
(1), quiet (1), rest (8), resting (1), resting place (7), resting places (1). ...
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2679. chatsi Hammenuchoth -- Chatsi-ham-Menuchoth, an Israelite ...
... From chetsiy and the plural of mnuwchah, with the article interposed; midst of the
resting- places; Chatsi-ham-Menuchoth, an Israelite -- half of the ...
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Library

The Holy Family in Bethlehem after the Departure of the Kings.
... The shepherds accompanied them, carrying the blankets and other things to
make resting-places for the holy women and the Infant Jesus. ...
/.../emmerich/the life of the blessed virgin mary/xiv the holy family in.htm

Things that Cannot be Shaken
... down upon some falsity, as though it were a final resting place, and that God was
continually obliged to "unbottom" all such false resting places, as though ...
/.../smith/the god of all comfort/chapter 11 things that cannot.htm

Demonstration x. --Of Pastors.
... He destroyed kings and subdued the land, and gave them the land as a place of pasturage,
and divided the resting-places and the sheepfolds to his sheep. ...
/.../aphrahat/aphrahat select demonstrations/demonstration x of pastors.htm

Papal Tombs.
... in the Cemetery of Callixtus."The tomb of Gregory the Great."S. Peter's as a
burial-place for the Popes."Gregory's several resting-places."The stress ...
/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/chapter v papal tombs.htm

The Holy Spirit of Promise
... forever. And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure
dwellings, and in quiet resting places.""Isa.32:15-18. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/byers/sanctification/chapter iv the holy spirit.htm

In Judaea
... Such is the reverence of Orientals for the resting-places of celebrated historical
personages, that we may well believe it to have been the same pillar which ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 5 in judaea.htm

I Relate all those Things on the Authority of Well-Informed ...
... by ravenous wolves, and partly scattered abroad, and to extirpate those noxious
wild beasts who had trod down its pastures, and destroyed its resting-places. ...
/.../of the manner in which the persecutors died/chap lii i relate all.htm

The Mystery
... circumstance be passed over, that the forty-two months of the Christian woman's
residence in the wilderness answers to the number of resting-places of Israel ...
//christianbookshelf.org/mede/a key to the apocalypse/the mystery 2.htm

2 Cor. v. 1
... Wherefore He saith, "In My Father's house are many abiding places." (John 14:2.)
But if He anywhere also calls the resting places of the saints tabernacles; He ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily x 2 cor v.htm

A Bird's-Eye view of the Early Church
... at the moment. We have in this verse one of the shortest, but perhaps the
most significant, of these resting-places. The original ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/a birds-eye view of the.htm

Thesaurus

Resting-places (27 Occurrences)
Resting-places. Resting-place, Resting-places. Restitution .
Multi-Version Concordance Resting-places (27 Occurrences). ...
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Curse (211 Occurrences)
... for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem
beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all ...
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False (303 Occurrences)
... for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem
beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all ...
/f/false%20.htm - 34k

Bodies (144 Occurrences)
... because you put up buildings for housing the dead bodies of the prophets, and
make fair the last resting-places of good men, and say, (BBE). ...
/b/bodies.htm - 37k

Tombs (27 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 65:4 Who are seated in the resting-places of the dead, and by night are in
the secret places; who take pig's flesh for food, and have the liquid of ...
/t/tombs.htm - 16k

Places (610 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Luke 9:58 And Jesus said to him, Foxes have holes and the birds of the air
have resting-places, but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head. ...
/p/places.htm - 35k

Rest (831 Occurrences)
... all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a
tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its ...
/r/rest.htm - 47k

Restitution (21 Occurrences)

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Vigil (2 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 65:4 Who are seated in the resting-places of the dead, and by night are in
the secret places; who take pig's flesh for food, and have the liquid of ...
/v/vigil.htm - 7k

Undisturbed (12 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Isaiah 32:18 And my people will be living in peace, in houses where
there is no fear, and in quiet resting-places. (See NAS NIV). ...
/u/undisturbed.htm - 9k

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Resting-places (27 Occurrences)

Matthew 13:32
Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches.
(BBE)

Matthew 23:27
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.
(BBE)

Matthew 23:29
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you put up buildings for housing the dead bodies of the prophets, and make fair the last resting-places of good men, and say,
(BBE)

Matthew 27:52
And the resting-places of the dead came open; and the bodies of a number of sleeping saints came to life;
(BBE)

Matthew 27:53
And coming out of their resting-places, after he had come again from the dead, they went into the holy town and were seen by a number of people.
(BBE)

Luke 9:12
And the day went on; and the twelve came to him and said, Send these people away so that they may go into the towns and the country round about and get resting-places and food for themselves, for we are in a waste place.
(BBE)

Luke 9:58
And Jesus said to him, Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have resting-places, but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.
(BBE)

Luke 11:44
A curse is on you! for you are like the resting-places of dead men, which are not seen, and men go walking over them without knowledge of it.
(BBE)

Luke 11:47
A curse is on you! for you make resting-places for the bodies of the prophets, but your fathers put them to death.
(BBE)

Luke 11:48
So you are witnesses and give approval to the work of your fathers; for they put them to death and you make their last resting-places.
(BBE)

Luke 13:19
It is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his garden, and it became a tree, and the birds of heaven made their resting-places in its branches.
(BBE)

Luke 16:9
And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places.
(BBE)

John 14:2
In my Father's house there are many resting-places. Were it otherwise, I would have told you; for I am going to make ready a place for you.
(WEY)

Genesis 23:6
My lord, truly you are a great chief among us; take the best of our resting-places for your dead; not one of us will keep back from you a place where you may put your dead to rest.
(BBE)

2 Chronicles 32:33
So Hezekiah went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body into the higher part of the resting-places of the sons of David: and all Judah and the people of Jerusalem gave him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son became king in his place.
(BBE)

2 Chronicles 34:4
He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them.
(BBE)

Nehemiah 3:16
By his side was working Nehemiah, the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the division of Beth-zur, as far as the place opposite the last resting-places of David's family, and the pool which was made and the house of the men of war.
(BBE)

Psalms 104:12
The birds of the air have their resting-places by them, and make their song among the branches.
(BBE)

Psalms 104:17
Where the birds have their resting-places; as for the stork, the tall trees are her house.
(BBE)

Isaiah 32:18
And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.
(See JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT)

Isaiah 57:2
They are at rest in their last resting-places, every one going straight before him.
(BBE)

Isaiah 65:4
Who are seated in the resting-places of the dead, and by night are in the secret places; who take pig's flesh for food, and have the liquid of disgusting things in their vessels.
(BBE)

Jeremiah 8:1
At that time, says the Lord, they will take the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his rulers, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the people of Jerusalem out of their resting-places:
(BBE)

Ezekiel 32:23
Whose resting-places are in the inmost parts of the underworld, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 37:12
For this cause be a prophet to them, and say, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am opening the resting-places of your dead, and I will make you come up out of your resting-places, O my people; and I will take you into the land of Israel.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 37:13
And you will be certain that I am the Lord by my opening the resting-places of your dead and making you come up out of your resting-places, O my people.
(BBE)

Daniel 4:21
Which had fair leaves and much fruit, and had in it food for all; under which the beasts of the field were living, and in the branches of which the birds of heaven had their resting-places:
(BBE)

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