Acts 8:2
And chasidim came and gave kevurah (burial) to Stefanos and they made loud lamentation over him.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 23:2And Sarah died in Kiryat-Arba; the same is Chevron in eretz Kena'an: and Avraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
Genesis 50:10And they came to the goren (threshing floor) of Atad, which is beyond the Yarden, and there they mourned with a gadol and very bitter lamentation; and he made evel (mourning) for Aviv shivat yamim.
Deuteronomy 34:8And the Bnei Yisroel wept for Moshe in the plains of Moav shloshim yom; then the yamim of weeping and mourning for Moshe were ended.
2 Samuel 3:31And Dovid said to Yoav, and to kol HaAm that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Avner. And Dovid HaMelech himself followed the mittah (bier, frame or bed holding corpse).
2 Chronicles 35:25And Yirmeyahu lamented for Yoshiyahu; and all the sharim (singing men) and the sharot (singing women) commemorate Yoshiyahu in their laments to this day, and made them as chok + 35:25 set custom in Yisroel; and, hinei, they are written in HaKinot (the Laments).
Jeremiah 22:10Weep ye not for the one dead, 1 neither mourn him; 1 but weep bitterly for him that goeth away [into the Golus]; 1 for he shall return no more, 1 nor see his eretz moledet (native land).
Matthew Henry on Acts 8:2-4
Persecution of the Church. 1 And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judæa and Samaria, except the apostles. 2 And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him. 3 As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison. In these verses we have, I. Something more… Read the whole commentary →