Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Anointing » Of the body
You'll have olive trees throughout your territory, but you won't be able to anoint yourself with oil because the olives will drop off the trees.
So get cleaned up, put on some perfume, dress up, and go to the threshing floor, but don't let him see you until after he's finished eating and drinking.
Each young woman's turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus at the end of the twelve month period, at which time she was treated according to the regulations for women. This process completed the period of her beauty treatments six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and cosmetics for women.
You've grown my strength like the horn of a wild ox; I was anointed with fresh oil.
like wine that makes the heart of people happy, oil that makes the face glow, and food that sustains people.
Let one who is righteous strike me; It is an act of gracious love. Let him rebuke me, because it is oil for my head; do not let my head refuse it. My prayers continuously will be against their wicked activities.
Ointments and perfume encourage the heart; in a similar way, a friend's advice is sweet to the soul.
Trying to keep her in check is like stopping a wind storm or grabbing oil with your right hand.
Always keep your garments white, and don't fail to anoint your head.
The fragrance of your perfumed oil is wonderful. Your name is perfume poured out. Therefore the young women love you.
How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride. How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all kinds of spices.
You went to Molech with olive oil and increased your perfumes; you sent your ambassadors far away, you sent them down even to Sheol itself!
drinking wine from bowls, anointing themselves with the choicest of oils, but not grieving on the occasion of Joseph's ruin
You'll plant, but you won't reap. You'll crush the olive harvest, but you'll have no oil to anoint yourself. You'll tread out the grapes, but you'll never drink wine.
Ointment » Not sacred
Each young woman's turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus at the end of the twelve month period, at which time she was treated according to the regulations for women. This process completed the period of her beauty treatments six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and cosmetics for women.
The fragrance of your perfumed oil is wonderful. Your name is perfume poured out. Therefore the young women love you.
How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride. How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume than all kinds of spices.
drinking wine from bowls, anointing themselves with the choicest of oils, but not grieving on the occasion of Joseph's ruin
Hezekiah listened to the entourage and showed them his entire treasury, including the silver, gold, and spices, the precious oil, his armory, and everything that was inventoried in his treasuries. There was nothing in his household or in his holdings that Hezekiah did not show them.
As dead flies cause the perfumer's ointment to stink, so also does a little foolishness to one's reputation of wisdom and honor.
A good name exceeds the value of fine perfume, and the day of someone's death exceeds the value of the day of his birth.
While Jesus was in Bethany sitting at the table in the home of Simon the leper, a woman arrived with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume made from pure nard. She broke open the jar and poured the perfume on his head. Irritated, some who were there asked one another, "Why was the perfume wasted like this? This perfume could have been sold for more than 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute." So they got extremely angry with her.
Mary took a litron of very expensive perfume made of pure nard and anointed Jesus' feet. She wiped his feet with her hair, and the house became filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples, who was going to betray him, asked, "Why wasn't this perfume sold for 300 denarii and the money given to the destitute?"
Preciousness of Christ » On account of his » Name
The fragrance of your perfumed oil is wonderful. Your name is perfume poured out. Therefore the young women love you.
and became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is better than theirs.
Woman » Illustrative » (chaste and holy,) of saints
The fragrance of your perfumed oil is wonderful. Your name is perfume poured out. Therefore the young women love you.
They have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins, and they follow the lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from among humanity as the first fruits for God and the lamb.
I am jealous of you with God's own jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to the Messiah.