Sacred Anointing
29 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
18 sections
- Antiquity of
- Consecrates to God's Service
- Illustrative of the Anointing of Christ with the Holy Spirit
- Illustrative of the Anointing of Saints with the Holy Spirit
- Oil or Ointment For: An Holy Anointing Oil for Ever
- Oil or Ointment For: Compounded by the Priests
- Oil or Ointment For: Divinely Prescribed
- Oil or Ointment For: Jews Condemned for Imitating
- Oil or Ointment For: Not to be Imitated
- Oil or Ointment For: To be Put on No Stranger
- Persons Who Received: Kings
- Persons Who Received: Priests
- Persons Who Received: Prophets
- Things Which Received: Brazen Altar
- Things Which Received: Brazen Laver
- Things Which Received: Tabernacle
- Those Who Partook of not to be Injured or Insulted
- Those Who Partook of Protected by God
Antiquity of
- Genesis 28:18 Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,
- Genesis 35:14 So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him— a stone marker— and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
Consecrates to God's Service
- Exodus 30:29 You are to consecrate them so that they will be most holy. Whatever touches them shall be holy.
Illustrative of the Anointing of Christ with the Holy Spirit
- Psalm 45:7 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.
- Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
- Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
Illustrative of the Anointing of Saints with the Holy Spirit
- 1 John 2:27 And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.
Oil or Ointment For: An Holy Anointing Oil for Ever
- Exodus 30:25 Prepare from these a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer; it will be a sacred anointing oil.
- Exodus 30:31 And you are to tell the Israelites, ‘This will be My sacred anointing oil for the generations to come.
Oil or Ointment For: Compounded by the Priests
- 1 Chronicles 9:30 And some of the sons of the priests mixed the spices.
Oil or Ointment For: Divinely Prescribed
- Exodus 30:23–25 “Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane, …
Oil or Ointment For: Jews Condemned for Imitating
- 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,
Oil or Ointment For: Not to be Imitated
- Exodus 30:32 It must not be used to anoint an ordinary man, and you must not make anything like it with the same formula. It is holy, and it must be holy to you.
Oil or Ointment For: To be Put on No Stranger
- Exodus 30:33 Anyone who mixes perfume like it or puts it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”
Persons Who Received: Kings
- Judges 9:8 One day the trees set out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’
- 1 Samuel 9:16 “At this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you are to anoint him ruler over My people Israel; he will save them from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked upon My people, because their …
- 1 Kings 1:34 There Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet are to anoint him king over Israel. You are to blow the ram’s horn and declare, ‘Long live King Solomon!’
Persons Who Received: Priests
- Exodus 40:13–15 And you are to clothe Aaron with the holy garments, anoint him, and consecrate him, so that he may serve Me as a priest. …
Persons Who Received: Prophets
- 1 Kings 19:16 You are also to anoint Jehu son of Nimshi as king over Israel and Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel-meholah to succeed you as prophet.
- Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
Things Which Received: Brazen Altar
- Exodus 29:36 Sacrifice a bull as a sin offering each day for atonement. Purify the altar by making atonement for it, and anoint it to consecrate it.
- Exodus 40:10 Anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils; consecrate the altar, and it shall be most holy.
Things Which Received: Brazen Laver
- Exodus 40:11 Anoint the basin and its stand and consecrate them.
Things Which Received: Tabernacle
- Exodus 30:26–27 Use this oil to anoint the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the Testimony, …
- Exodus 40:9 Take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and everything in it; consecrate it along with all its furnishings, and it shall be holy.
Those Who Partook of not to be Injured or Insulted
- 1 Samuel 24:6 So he said to his men, “The LORD forbid that I should do such a thing to my master, the LORD’s anointed. May I never lift my hand against him, since he is the LORD’s anointed.”
- 1 Samuel 26:9 But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can extend a hand against the LORD’s anointed and be guiltless?”
- 2 Samuel 1:14–15 So David asked him, “Why were you not afraid to lift your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?” …
- 2 Samuel 19:21 But Abishai son of Zeruiah said, “Shouldn’t Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD’s anointed?”
Those Who Partook of Protected by God
- 1 Chronicles 16:22 ‘Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!’
- Psalm 105:15 “Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!”
Related topics
Anointing OilOintmentAnointing of the Holy SpiritAnointing in Consecration
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.