'Bed' in the Bible

"Promise me," Israel insisted. So Joseph promised. Then Israel collapsed on his bed.

As soon as Jacob was informed, "Look! Your son Joseph has come to visit you," Israel rallied his strength and sat up in bed.

But you're as undisciplined as a roaring river, so eventually you won't succeed, because you got in your father's bed, defiled it, and then approached my couch."

After concluding this set of instructions to his sons, Jacob tucked his feet up into bed, quit breathing, and was gathered to his ancestors.

The Nile will swarm with frogs. They'll come up and enter your house, your bedroom, your bed, and your servants' houses. They'll jump on your people, into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs.

"If people quarrel and one strikes the other with a rock or his fist, and he does not die but ends up in bed,

Every bed on which he lies down with the discharge is to be considered unclean, and every object on which he sits becomes unclean.

Any person who touches his bed is to wash his garments and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Anyone who touches her bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Any bed or other object on which she sat that he touches will make him unclean until evening.

When a man has sexual relations with her and her menstrual uncleanness touches him, he will be unclean for seven days. Every bed where he sleeps will remain unclean.

Every bed on which she sleeps the whole time she has the discharge will be her own unclean bed, so that every object on which she sits becomes unclean like her menstrual uncleanness.

Only King Og of Bashan remained from the remnants of the Rephaim. In fact, his bed was made of iron. It's in Rabbah of the Ammonites, isn't it? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide."

Then Michal took the household idol and laid it on the bed with a cover of goat hair placed at its head. Then she covered it with clothes.

Then Saul sent messengers to check on David. He told them, "Bring him to me on the bed so I may kill him."

The messengers went in, and there was the household idol in the bed with the cover of goat hair at its head!

Both his servants and the woman urged him, and so he listened to them. He got up off the ground and sat on the bed. The woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.

While they were in the house, they struck him, killed him, and cut off his head while he was lying on his bed in his bedroom. They took his head, and traveled all night along the Arabah road.

How much worse will it be, then, when evil men kill an innocent man on his own bed in his own house! Shouldn't I avenge his blood which you are responsible for shedding by removing you from the earth?"

In addition to all of this, the king's servants have come along to congratulate our lord King David. They've been telling David "May your God make Solomon's reputation even more famous than yours, and may he make his throne greater than yours!' The king has himself bowed in worship on his own bed

"Give me your son," he replied. Then he took him from her lap, carried him upstairs to the room where he lived, and laid him on his bed.

Ahab went back to his palace, sullen and in a foul mood, because Naboth the Jezreelite had turned down Ahab's offer by saying "I will not transfer my ancestors' inheritance to you!" He laid down on his bed, curled up with his face to the wall, and refused to eat.

Now therefore this is what the LORD says: "You won't be getting up from that bed of yours on which you're lying. You will most certainly die!"'" So Elijah got up and went.

They replied, "We met a man who told us, "Go back to the king who sent you and ask him, "Is it because there is no God in Israel that you're going to consult with Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you won't be getting up from that bed on which you're lying. You will most certainly die!"'"

Then Elijah spoke to the king, "This is what the LORD says: "Since you sent messengers to consult with Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron is it because there is no God in Israel with whom to consult regarding his word? therefore you're not getting up from the bed on which you're lying. You certainly will die!'"

Now then, let's build a small upper room and put a bed in it for him there, along with a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. That way, when he comes to visit, he can rest there."

The woman went upstairs, laid him on the bed belonging to the man of God, and shut the door, leaving him behind as she left.

When Elisha entered the house, there was the youngster, dead and laid out on Elisha's bed!

Here is a record of the descendants of Reuben, Israel's firstborn. (He was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father's marriage bed, his birthright was transferred to the descendants of Israel's son Joseph. As a result, Reuben is not enrolled in the genealogy according to the birthright.

After the Arameans left him very sick, Joash's own servants conspired against him because Joash had murdered Jehoiada the priest's son, and they killed him on his sick bed.

For I've said, "My bed will comfort me; my couch will ease my burdens while I complain.'

"If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness,

He will go to bed wealthy, but won't be doing that anymore! When he opens his eyes, it will be gone!

"He is being reproved by painful bed rest, with continual aching in his bones.

I am weary from my groaning. Every night my couch is drenched with tears, my bed is soaked through.

He devises iniquity on his bed and is determined to follow a path that is not good. He does not resist evil.

The LORD will uphold him even on his sickbed; you will transform his bed of illness into health.

When I think of you in bed, I will meditate on you in the night watches.

"I will not enter my house, or lie down on my bed,

I've decorated my bed with new coverings embroidered linen from Egypt.

I've perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

If you don't have the ability to pay, why should your very bed be taken from under you?

The door turns on its hinges as does the lazy person on his bed.

Night after night on my bed, I sought the one I love; I sought him, but didn't find him.

because the bed is too short to stretch out on, and its blankets too narrow to wrap around oneself!

"You have made your bed on a high and lofty mountain, and you went up to offer sacrifice there.

Behind the doors and the doorposts you have set up your pagan sign." For in deserting me you have uncovered your bed you have climbed up into it and have opened it wide. And you have made a pact for yourself with them; you have loved their bed, you have looked on their private parts.

then sat down on an elegant bed. A table was arranged in front of it, on which you set out my incense and oil.

They have prepared a bed for her and for her hordes that surround her graves. All of them are uncircumcised, having been killed violently, because they had spread terror throughout the land of the living. They will bear the shame of those who descend to the Pit and will take their place among the dead.

"While you were in bed, the dream and the visions that came to your head were as follows: Your majesty, when you were in bed, thoughts came to your mind about what would happen in the future, and the Revealer of Secrets has made known to you what will take place.

I had a dream that made me afraid. The thoughts that went through my mind while in bed and the visions in my head terrified me.

This is what I saw in the visions of my head while I was in bed: I was looking and listen carefully! I saw a tree in the middle of the earth, the height of which was very great.

"Then I saw in the visions of my head while I was in bed and take careful notice! I saw a holy observer descend from heaven.

In the first year of the reign of King Belshazzar of Babylon, Daniel dreamed a dream, receiving visions in his mind while in bed, after which he recorded the dream, relating this summary of events.

When Jesus went into Peter's house, he saw Peter's mother-in-law lying in bed, sick with a fever.

Now Simon's mother-in-law was lying in bed, sick with a fever, so they promptly told Jesus about her.

Then Jesus told them, "A lamp isn't brought indoors to be put under a basket or under a bed, is it? It's to be put on a lamp stand, isn't it?

So she went home and found her child lying in bed, and the demon was gone.

"No one lights a lamp and hides it under a bowl or puts it under a bed. Instead, he puts it on a lamp stand so that those who come in will see the light.

The father of Publius happened to be sick in bed with fever and dysentery. Paul went to him, prayed, and healed him by placing his hands on him.

Let marriage be kept honorable in every way, and the marriage bed undefiled. For God will judge those who commit sexual sins, especially those who commit adultery.