Beds
31 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
22 sections
- (Made in Darkness) of Extreme Misery
- (Made in Sickness) of Divine Support and Comfort
- (Made on High) of Carnal Security
- (Too Short) Plans Which Afford No Rest or Peace
- A Small Pallet or Mattress Used As
- Antiquity of
- Considered Necessary
- Couches or Divans Used As
- Covered with Tapestry and Linen
- Made of Gold and Silver
- Made of Iron
- Made of Ivory
- Not Used in Affliction
- Often Perfumed
- Persons Sometimes Took To, in Grief
- Purification of
- Saints Meditate and Praise God While On
- Subject to Ceremonial Defilement
- Supplied with Pillows
- The Slothful Too Fond of
- The Wicked Devise Mischief While On
- Wood
(Made in Darkness) of Extreme Misery
- Job 17:13 If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
(Made in Sickness) of Divine Support and Comfort
- Psalm 41:3 The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.
(Made on High) of Carnal Security
- Isaiah 57:7 On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.
(Too Short) Plans Which Afford No Rest or Peace
- Isaiah 28:20 Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket too small to wrap around you.
A Small Pallet or Mattress Used As
- 1 Samuel 19:15 But Saul sent the messengers back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so I can kill him.”
Antiquity of
- Genesis 47:31 “Swear to me,” Jacob said. So Joseph swore to him, and Israel bowed in worship at the head of his bed.
- Exodus 8:3 The Nile will teem with frogs, and they will come into your palace and up to your bedroom and onto your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.
Considered Necessary
- 2 Kings 4:10 Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.”
Couches or Divans Used As
Covered with Tapestry and Linen
- Proverbs 7:16 I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.
Made of Gold and Silver
- Esther 1:6 Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, …
Made of Iron
- Deuteronomy 3:11 (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
Made of Ivory
- Amos 6:4 You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.
Not Used in Affliction
- 2 Samuel 12:16 David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.
- 2 Samuel 13:31 Then the king stood up, tore his clothes, and lay down on the ground. And all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
Often Perfumed
- Proverbs 7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.
- Ezekiel 23:41 You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,
Persons Sometimes Took To, in Grief
- 1 Kings 21:4 So Ahab went to his palace, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had told him, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He lay down on his bed, turned his face away, and refused to eat.
- Hosea 7:14 They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.
Purification of
- Mark 7:4 And on returning from the market, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions for them to observe, including the washing of cups, pitchers, kettles, and couches for dining.
Saints Meditate and Praise God While On
- Psalm 4:4 Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah
- Psalm 149:5 Let the saints exult in glory; let them shout for joy upon their beds.
- Song of Solomon 3:1 On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.
Subject to Ceremonial Defilement
- Leviticus 15:4 Any bed on which the man with the discharge lies will be unclean, and any furniture on which he sits will be unclean.
Supplied with Pillows
- 1 Samuel 19:13 Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
- 1 Samuel 26:7 That night David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the troops were lying around him.
The Slothful Too Fond of
- Proverbs 26:14 As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed.
The Wicked Devise Mischief While On
- Psalm 36:4 Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
- Micah 2:1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
Wood
- Song of Solomon 3:7–9 Behold, it is Solomon’s carriage, escorted by sixty of the mightiest men of Israel. …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.