53 Bible Verses about Beds

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Job 17:13-16

“If I look for Sheol as my home,
I make my bed in the darkness;
If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’;
To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;
Where now is my hope?
And who regards my hope?
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“Will it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together go down into the dust?”

Isaiah 57:7

“Upon a high and lofty mountain
You have made your bed.
You also went up there to offer sacrifice.

Luke 11:7

and from inside he answers and says, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been shut and my children and I are in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything.’

2 Samuel 4:5-7

So the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, departed and came to the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day while he was taking his midday rest. They came to the middle of the house as if to get wheat, and they struck him in the belly; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. Now when they came into the house, as he was lying on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and killed him and beheaded him. And they took his head and traveled by way of the Arabah all night.

Genesis 49:33

When Jacob finished charging his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.

Amos 6:4

Those who recline on beds of ivory
And sprawl on their couches,
And eat lambs from the flock
And calves from the midst of the stall,

Proverbs 7:16

“I have spread my couch with coverings,
With colored linens of Egypt.

Psalm 36:4

He plans wickedness upon his bed;
He sets himself on a path that is not good;
He does not despise evil.

Psalm 149:5

Let the godly ones exult in glory;
Let them sing for joy on their beds.

Genesis 28:11

He came to a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and put it under his head, and lay down in that place.

Deuteronomy 3:11

(For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was an iron bedstead; it is in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. Its length was nine cubits and its width four cubits by ordinary cubit.)

Esther 1:6

There were hangings of fine white and violet linen held by cords of fine purple linen on silver rings and marble columns, and couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and precious stones.

Exodus 21:18

“If men have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but remains in bed,

Leviticus 15:4

Every bed on which the person with the discharge lies becomes unclean, and everything on which he sits becomes unclean.

Leviticus 15:6

and whoever sits on the thing on which the man with the discharge has been sitting, shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

Proverbs 22:27

If you have nothing with which to pay,
Why should he take your bed from under you?

Ezekiel 23:17

The Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, she became disgusted with them.

Hosea 7:14

And they do not cry to Me from their heart
When they wail on their beds;
For the sake of grain and new wine they assemble themselves,
They turn away from Me.

Amos 3:12

Thus says the Lord,
“Just as the shepherd snatches from the lion’s mouth a couple of legs or a piece of an ear,
So will the sons of Israel dwelling in Samaria be snatched away—
With the corner of a bed and the cover of a couch!

Mark 6:55

and ran about that whole country and began to carry here and there on their pallets those who were sick, to the place they heard He was.

Acts 5:15

to such an extent that they even carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on any one of them.

2 Samuel 17:28

brought beds, basins, pottery, wheat, barley, flour, parched grain, beans, lentils, parched seeds,

2 Kings 4:10

Please, let us make a little walled upper chamber and let us set a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there.”

Isaiah 28:20

The bed is too short on which to stretch out,
And the blanket is too small to wrap oneself in.

Esther 7:8

Now when the king returned from the palace garden into the place where they were drinking wine, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen with me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

Matthew 9:2

And they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, “Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.”

Luke 5:18

And some men were carrying on a bed a man who was paralyzed; and they were trying to bring him in and to set him down in front of Him.

Matthew 9:6

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—then He *said to the paralytic, “Get up, pick up your bed and go home.”

Mark 2:9

Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven’; or to say, ‘Get up, and pick up your pallet and walk’?

Mark 2:11-12

“I say to you, get up, pick up your pallet and go home.” And he got up and immediately picked up the pallet and went out in the sight of everyone, so that they were all amazed and were glorifying God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this.”

Luke 5:24

But, so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,”—He said to the paralytic—“I say to you, get up, and pick up your stretcher and go home.”

John 5:8-12

Jesus *said to him, “Get up, pick up your pallet and walk.” Immediately the man became well, and picked up his pallet and began to walk.Now it was the Sabbath on that day. So the Jews were saying to the man who was cured, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not permissible for you to carry your pallet.”read more.
But he answered them, “He who made me well was the one who said to me, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk.’” They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your pallet and walk’?”

Acts 9:34

Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; get up and make your bed.” Immediately he got up.

Acts 9:33

There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden eight years, for he was paralyzed.

2 Samuel 4:7

Now when they came into the house, as he was lying on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and killed him and beheaded him. And they took his head and traveled by way of the Arabah all night.

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hand and destroy you from the earth?”

2 Samuel 11:2

Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king’s house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.

Proverbs 26:14

As the door turns on its hinges,
So does the sluggard on his bed.

Job 7:13

“If I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
My couch will ease my complaint,’

Isaiah 57:8

“Behind the door and the doorpost
You have set up your sign;
Indeed, far removed from Me, you have uncovered yourself,
And have gone up and made your bed wide.
And you have made an agreement for yourself with them,
You have loved their bed,
You have looked on their manhood.

Mark 7:30

And going back to her home, she found the child lying on the bed, the demon having left.

Luke 17:34

I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left.

Mark 4:38

Jesus Himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they *woke Him and *said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?”

Revelation 2:22

Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her deeds.

Genesis 47:31

He said, “Swear to me.” So he swore to him. Then Israel bowed in worship at the head of the bed.

Genesis 48:2

When it was told to Jacob, “Behold, your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel collected his strength and sat up in the bed.

1 Samuel 28:23

But he refused and said, “I will not eat.” However, his servants together with the woman urged him, and he listened to them. So he arose from the ground and sat on the bed.

Exodus 8:3

The Nile will swarm with frogs, which will come up and go into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and on your people, and into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.

1 Samuel 19:13-16

Michal took the household idol and laid it on the bed, and put a quilt of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with clothes. When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.” Then Saul sent messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me on his bed, that I may put him to death.”read more.
When the messengers entered, behold, the household idol was on the bed with the quilt of goats’ hair at its head.

Mark 2:4

Being unable to get to Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and when they had dug an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralytic was lying.

Luke 5:19

But not finding any way to bring him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down through the tiles with his stretcher, into the middle of the crowd, in front of Jesus.

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Beds » Used for » Reclining on at meals

1 Samuel 28:23-25

But he refused and said, "I will not eat " However, his servants together with the woman urged him, and he listened to them So he arose from the ground and sat on the bed. The woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly slaughtered it; and she took flour, kneaded it and baked unleavened bread from it. She brought it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they arose and went away that night.

Amos 6:4-6

Those who recline on beds of ivory And sprawl on their couches, And eat lambs from the flock And calves from the midst of the stall, Who improvise to the sound of the harp, And like David have composed songs for themselves, Who drink wine from sacrificial bowls While they anoint themselves with the finest of oils, Yet they have not grieved over the ruin of Joseph.

Luke 7:36-38

Now one of the Pharisees was requesting Him to dine with him, and He entered the Pharisee's house and reclined at the table. And there was a woman in the city who was a sinner; and when she learned that He was reclining at the table in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster vial of perfume, and standing behind Him at His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and kept wiping them with the hair of her head, and kissing His feet and anointing them with the perfume.

Beds » Saints meditate and praise God while on

Psalm 149:5

Let the godly ones exult in glory;
Let them sing for joy on their beds.

Song of Songs 3:1

On my bed night after night I sought him
Whom my soul loves;
I sought him but did not find him.

Beds » Not used in affliction

2 Samuel 13:31

Then the king arose, tore his clothes and lay on the ground; and all his servants were standing by with clothes torn.

Beds » Supplied with pillows

1 Samuel 26:7

So David and Abishai came to the people by night, and behold, Saul lay sleeping inside the circle of the camp with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people were lying around him.

1 Samuel 19:13

Michal took the household idol and laid it on the bed, and put a quilt of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with clothes.

Beds » Often perfumed

Proverbs 7:17

“I have sprinkled my bed
With myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.

Ezekiel 23:41

and you sat on a splendid couch with a table arranged before it on which you had set My incense and My oil.

Beds » Used for » Reclining on by day

2 Samuel 11:2

Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king’s house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.

2 Samuel 4:5

So the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, departed and came to the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day while he was taking his midday rest.

Beds » Antiquity of

Genesis 47:31

He said, “Swear to me.” So he swore to him. Then Israel bowed in worship at the head of the bed.

Exodus 8:3

The Nile will swarm with frogs, which will come up and go into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed, and into the houses of your servants and on your people, and into your ovens and into your kneading bowls.

Beds » Persons sometimes took to, in grief

1 Kings 21:4

So Ahab came into his house sullen and vexed because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and ate no food.

Hosea 7:14

And they do not cry to Me from their heart
When they wail on their beds;
For the sake of grain and new wine they assemble themselves,
They turn away from Me.

Beds » Made of » Wood

Song of Songs 3:7-8

"Behold, it is the traveling couch of Solomon; Sixty mighty men around it, Of the mighty men of Israel. "All of them are wielders of the sword, Expert in war; Each man has his sword at his side, Guarding against the terrors of the night.

Beds » The wicked devise mischief while on

Psalm 36:4

He plans wickedness upon his bed;
He sets himself on a path that is not good;
He does not despise evil.

Beds » Used for » Sleeping on

Job 33:15

“In a dream, a vision of the night,
When sound sleep falls on men,
While they slumber in their beds,

Luke 11:7

and from inside he answers and says, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been shut and my children and I are in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything.’

Beds » Couches or divans used as

Job 7:13

“If I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
My couch will ease my complaint,’

Psalm 6:6

I am weary with my sighing;
Every night I make my bed swim,
I dissolve my couch with my tears.

Beds » Made of » Iron

Deuteronomy 3:11

(For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bedstead was an iron bedstead; it is in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon. Its length was nine cubits and its width four cubits by ordinary cubit.)

Beds » Of the poor covered with their upper garment

Exodus 22:26-27

"If you ever take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, you are to return it to him before the sun sets, for that is his only covering; it is his cloak for his body. What else shall he sleep in? And it shall come about that when he cries out to Me, I will hear him, for I am gracious.

Beds » A small pallet or mattress used as

1 Samuel 19:15

Then Saul sent messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me on his bed, that I may put him to death.”

Beds » Subject to ceremonial defilement

Leviticus 15:4

Every bed on which the person with the discharge lies becomes unclean, and everything on which he sits becomes unclean.

Beds » Of the poor often sold for debt

Proverbs 22:27

If you have nothing with which to pay,
Why should he take your bed from under you?

Beds » The slothful too fond of

Proverbs 26:14

As the door turns on its hinges,
So does the sluggard on his bed.

Beds » Covered with tapestry and linen

Proverbs 7:16

“I have spread my couch with coverings,
With colored linens of Egypt.

Beds » Illustrative » (too short,) of plans which afford no rest or peace

Isaiah 28:20

The bed is too short on which to stretch out,
And the blanket is too small to wrap oneself in.

Beds » Considered necessary

2 Kings 4:10

Please, let us make a little walled upper chamber and let us set a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there.”

Beds » Illustrative » (made on high,) of carnal security

Isaiah 57:7

“Upon a high and lofty mountain
You have made your bed.
You also went up there to offer sacrifice.

Beds » Illustrative » Of the grave

Beds » Illustrative » (made in sickness,) of divine support and comfort

Beds » Made of » Gold and silver

Esther 1:6

There were hangings of fine white and violet linen held by cords of fine purple linen on silver rings and marble columns, and couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and precious stones.

Beds » Illustrative » (made in darkness,) of extreme misery

Job 17:13

“If I look for Sheol as my home,
I make my bed in the darkness;

Beds » Made of » Ivory

Amos 6:4

Those who recline on beds of ivory
And sprawl on their couches,
And eat lambs from the flock
And calves from the midst of the stall,

Beds » Purification of

Mark 7:4

and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they cleanse themselves; and there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the washing of cups and pitchers and copper pots.)

Ivory » Other articles made of » Beds

Amos 6:4

Those who recline on beds of ivory
And sprawl on their couches,
And eat lambs from the flock
And calves from the midst of the stall,

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