Incense
38 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
36 sections
- An Article of Extensive Commerce
- Brought from Sheba
- Called Frankincense
- Common, not to be offered to God
- Compounded by Bezaleel
- Designed for Atonement
- Formula for Compounding
- Korah and his Company Punished for offering
- Korah, Dathan, and Abiram
- Levites had Charge of
- Nadab and Abihu Destroyed for offering, with Strange Fire
- None but Priest to offer
- Offered by Nadab and Abihu in an Unauthorized Manner
- Offered by the High Priest in the Most Holy Place on the Day of
- Offered in Censers
- Offered in Idolatrous Worship
- Offered Morning and Evening
- Offered with Fire from off the Altar of Burnt offering
- Offered: Morning and Evening
- Offered: On the Altar of Gold
- Offered: Perpetually
- Offering of, Allotted to the Priests
- On the Golden Altar
- Prayer
- Presented by the Wise Men to Jesus
- Presented to Christ by the Wise Men
- Put on Meat offerings
- Receipt for Mixing
- Symbolical of the Prayers of Saints
- The Jews Prayed at Time of offering
- The Jews: Not Accepted in offering, on Account of Sin
- The Jews: Offered, to Idols on Altars of Brick
- The Jews: Punished for offering, to Idols
- The Merits of Christ
- Uses of
- Uzziah Punished for offering
An Article of Extensive Commerce
- Revelation 18:13 of cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, and frankincense; of wine, olive oil, fine flour, and wheat; of cattle, sheep, horses, and carriages; of bodies and souls of slaves.
Brought from Sheba
- Jeremiah 6:20 What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.”
Called Frankincense
- Song of Solomon 4:6 Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.
- Song of Solomon 4:14 with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.
Common, not to be offered to God
- Exodus 30:9 On this altar you must not offer unauthorized incense or a burnt offering or grain offering; nor are you to pour a drink offering on it.
Compounded by Bezaleel
- Exodus 37:29 He also made the sacred anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.
Designed for Atonement
- Numbers 16:46–47 Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.” …
Formula for Compounding
- Exodus 30:34–35 The LORD also said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices — gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense — in equal measures, …
Korah and his Company Punished for offering
- Numbers 16:16–35 And Moses said to Korah, “You and all your followers are to appear before the LORD tomorrow— you and they and Aaron. …
Korah, Dathan, and Abiram
- Numbers 16:16–35 And Moses said to Korah, “You and all your followers are to appear before the LORD tomorrow— you and they and Aaron. …
Levites had Charge of
- 1 Chronicles 9:29 Others were put in charge of the furnishings and other articles of the sanctuary, as well as the fine flour, wine, oil, frankincense, and spices.
Nadab and Abihu Destroyed for offering, with Strange Fire
- Leviticus 10:1–2 Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense, and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to His command. …
None but Priest to offer
- Numbers 16:40 just as the LORD commanded him through Moses. This was to be a reminder to the Israelites that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his followers.
- Deuteronomy 33:10 He will teach Your ordinances to Jacob and Your law to Israel; he will set incense before You and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.
Offered by Nadab and Abihu in an Unauthorized Manner
- Leviticus 10:1–2 Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense, and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to His command. …
Offered by the High Priest in the Most Holy Place on the Day of
- Leviticus 16:12–13 Then he must take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and take them inside the veil. …
Offered in Censers
- Leviticus 10:1 Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense, and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to His command.
- Numbers 16:17 Each man is to take his censer, place incense in it, and present it before the LORD— 250 censers. You and Aaron are to present your censers as well.”
- Numbers 16:46 Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
Offered in Idolatrous Worship
- 1 Kings 12:23 “Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and the rest of the people
- Jeremiah 41:5 eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their garments, and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, carrying grain offerings and frankincense for the house of the LORD.
- Ezekiel 8:11 Before them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.
Offered Morning and Evening
- Exodus 30:7–8 And Aaron is to burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he tends the lamps. …
- 2 Chronicles 13:11 Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We …
Offered with Fire from off the Altar of Burnt offering
- Leviticus 16:12 Then he must take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and take them inside the veil.
- Numbers 16:46 Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
Offered: Morning and Evening
- Exodus 30:7–8 And Aaron is to burn fragrant incense on it every morning when he tends the lamps. …
Offered: On the Altar of Gold
- Exodus 30:1 “You are also to make an altar of acacia wood for the burning of incense.
- Exodus 30:6 Place the altar in front of the veil that is before the ark of the Testimony— before the mercy seat that is over the Testimony— where I will meet with you.
- Exodus 40:5 Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the Testimony, and hang the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
Offered: Perpetually
- Exodus 30:8 When Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he must burn the incense perpetually before the LORD for the generations to come.
Offering of, Allotted to the Priests
- Luke 1:9 he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
On the Golden Altar
- Exodus 30:1–7 “You are also to make an altar of acacia wood for the burning of incense. …
- Exodus 40:5 Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the Testimony, and hang the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
- Exodus 40:27 and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the LORD had commanded him.
- 2 Chronicles 2:4 Behold, I am about to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God to dedicate to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for displaying the showbread continuously, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening …
- 2 Chronicles 32:12 Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’?
Prayer
- Psalm 141:2 May my prayer be set before You like incense; my uplifted hands, like the evening offering.
- Malachi 1:11 For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Revelation 5:8 When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Presented by the Wise Men to Jesus
- Matthew 2:11 On coming to the house, they saw the Child with His mother Mary, and they fell down and worshiped Him. Then they opened their treasures and presented Him with gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.
Presented to Christ by the Wise Men
- Matthew 2:11 On coming to the house, they saw the Child with His mother Mary, and they fell down and worshiped Him. Then they opened their treasures and presented Him with gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh.
Put on Meat offerings
- Leviticus 2:1–2 “When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it, …
- Leviticus 2:15–16 And you are to put oil and frankincense on it; it is a grain offering. …
- Leviticus 6:15 The priest is to remove a handful of fine flour and olive oil, together with all the frankincense from the grain offering, and burn the memorial portion on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Receipt for Mixing
- Exodus 30:34–36 The LORD also said to Moses, “Take fragrant spices — gum resin, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense — in equal measures, …
Symbolical of the Prayers of Saints
- Revelation 5:8 When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
- Revelation 8:3–4 Then another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne. …
The Jews Prayed at Time of offering
- Luke 1:10 And at the hour of the incense offering, the whole congregation was praying outside.
The Jews: Not Accepted in offering, on Account of Sin
- Isaiah 1:13 Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.
- Isaiah 66:3 Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one …
The Jews: Offered, to Idols on Altars of Brick
- Isaiah 65:3 to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,
The Jews: Punished for offering, to Idols
- 2 Chronicles 34:25 because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands. My wrath will be poured out upon this place and will not be quenched.’
The Merits of Christ
- Revelation 8:3–4 Then another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne. …
Uses of
- Exodus 30:36–38 Grind some of it into fine powder and place it in front of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be most holy to you. …
- Leviticus 16:12 Then he must take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and take them inside the veil.
- Numbers 16:17 Each man is to take his censer, place incense in it, and present it before the LORD— 250 censers. You and Aaron are to present your censers as well.”
- Numbers 16:40 just as the LORD commanded him through Moses. This was to be a reminder to the Israelites that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his followers.
- Numbers 16:46 Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
- Deuteronomy 33:10 He will teach Your ordinances to Jacob and Your law to Israel; he will set incense before You and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.
Uzziah Punished for offering
- 2 Chronicles 26:16–21 But when Uzziah became powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense. …
Related topics
Incense in Making AtonementIncense for God's Service Mixed with Sweet SpicesIncense by PriestsIncense by UzziahIncense of an Acceptable SacrificeIncense of Praise
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.