Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



You will have olive trees throughout all your coasts, but you shall not anoint with the oil, for your olive shall drop off its fruit. Verse ConceptsAnointing With OilOilOrchardsOlive Trees

Wash and perfume yourself and put on your best clothes. Go down to the floor. Make yourself known to the man after he is done eating and drinking. Verse ConceptsAnointing, Social CustomAnointing With OilOintmentPerfumeClothing OneselfOuter GarmentsAnointing OneselfClean FacesEating And DrinkingPeople Made Known

Now every girl, when her turn came, had to go in to King Ahasuerus. After undergoing, for a space of twelve months, what was ordered by the law for the women for this was the time necessary for making them clean, that is, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet perfumes and such things as are needed for making women clean. Verse ConceptsMyrrhMarital SexFive Months And MoreOne YearMarital Sex BetweenYoung LadiesEtiquetteMonthsWomen's BeautyWomen's Rolesmakeupprocess

But you exalt my horn (make me as strong) as a wild bull. I have been anointed with soothing lotion. Verse ConceptsAnointing, Social CustomAnointing With OilGuestsHornsHorns VictoriousWild OxAnointed By GodUnicorns


A righteous person may strike me or correct me out of kindness. It is like lotion for my head. My head will not refuse it, because my prayer is directed against evil deeds. Verse ConceptsCriticism, amongst believersevil, believers' responses toSpeech, Positive Aspects OfAdmonition, Of ChristiansOlive OilAccepting Beatingsnegativityrebuking


Trying to stop her is like trying to stop the wind, or holding something with greased hands. Verse Conceptsnagging


Your good ointment has a pleasing aroma. Your name is like pure ointment. Therefore the maidens do love you. Verse ConceptsMen And Women Who Loved

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How fair is your love, my sister, and my spouse! How much better is your love than wine! The smell of your perfume than all spices! Verse ConceptsLove And WineA Time For Love

You went to the king with ointment and much perfume. You sent your messengers far off, and descended even to the grave. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsAnointing, Social CustomenvoyPerfumeAttraction

You drink wine in bowls, and anoint yourselves with the finest oils. But you are not grieved because of the affliction of Joseph. Verse ConceptsAnointing, Social CustomOintmentDrinking WineAnointing OneselfNot Mourning

You will sow and not reap. You will tread the olives, but will not be anointed with oil! And you will grow the grapes but you will not drink the wine. Verse ConceptsCrushingGrapesHarvestOilOlivesSowing And ReapingSowing In VainNot Drinking WineAnointing OneselfNot Reaping What You SowTreading GrapesReaping What You Sow

Wash and perfume yourself and put on your best clothes. Go down to the floor. Make yourself known to the man after he is done eating and drinking. Verse ConceptsAnointing, Social CustomAnointing With OilOintmentPerfumeClothing OneselfOuter GarmentsAnointing OneselfClean FacesEating And DrinkingPeople Made Known

But you exalt my horn (make me as strong) as a wild bull. I have been anointed with soothing lotion. Verse ConceptsAnointing, Social CustomAnointing With OilGuestsHornsHorns VictoriousWild OxAnointed By GodUnicorns


You went to the king with ointment and much perfume. You sent your messengers far off, and descended even to the grave. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsAnointing, Social CustomenvoyPerfumeAttraction

You drink wine in bowls, and anoint yourselves with the finest oils. But you are not grieved because of the affliction of Joseph. Verse ConceptsAnointing, Social CustomOintmentDrinking WineAnointing OneselfNot Mourning

Now every girl, when her turn came, had to go in to King Ahasuerus. After undergoing, for a space of twelve months, what was ordered by the law for the women for this was the time necessary for making them clean, that is, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet perfumes and such things as are needed for making women clean. Verse ConceptsMyrrhMarital SexFive Months And MoreOne YearMarital Sex BetweenYoung LadiesEtiquetteMonthsWomen's BeautyWomen's Rolesmakeupprocess

You went to the king with ointment and much perfume. You sent your messengers far off, and descended even to the grave. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsAnointing, Social CustomenvoyPerfumeAttraction

He said: I called to Jehovah because of my affliction. And he answered me! Out of the belly of the grave I cried and you heard my voice. Verse ConceptsCalling upon GodThe DeadBeggarsSheolStressNearness Of DeathGod AnsweredCrying For HelpDeath Looms NearGod Paid Attention To Mejonah

Wine is treacherous and never allows an arrogant man to rest. He never stays home. He has a large appetite like the grave. Like death he is never satisfied. He gathers all nations and collects all the people. Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofdissatisfactionAmbition, Warnings RegardingGrave, TheSatisfactionWorldly AmbitionCovetousness, Nature ofAlcohol ConsumptionEffect Of WineDealing With The NationsThe Fact Of Death

You went to the king with ointment and much perfume. You sent your messengers far off, and descended even to the grave. Verse ConceptsFalse GodsAnointing, Social CustomenvoyPerfumeAttraction

They do not lie with the godless warriors who died and went down to the grave with their weapons of war. Their swords were placed under their heads. Their iniquity rested on their bones because they terrified others in the land of the living. Verse ConceptsIniquity, Punishment ForHell, Punishment OfWeaponsFearing Other PeopleLife And DeathState Of The Dead

But you have been brought down to the grave, to the deepest part of the pit. Verse ConceptsPitsSheolGoing Down To The PitAbasing PeoplePits As A Term For Graves

Because you have said: We have made a covenant with death, and with the grave we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge. We have hidden under falsehood! Verse ConceptsAgreement, Example OfFalse ConfidenceGrave, TheHell, As An ExperienceImmunityRefugeSelf ConfidenceTrust, Lack OfArrogance, Characterizes The WickedHiding From Peopleshelter

Your covenant with death will be annulled. Your agreement with the grave will not stand when the overflowing scourge passes through. Then you will be trampled down by it. Verse ConceptsAgreementTrampling PeopleNot DyingDeath Preventedcovenantcheaters

The grave below wakes up to meet you when you come. It wakes up those who are dead, all who were leaders on earth. It raises all who were kings of the nations from their thrones. Verse ConceptsGrave, TheGreetingsSpiritsThroneDeath Of The Wickedwelcome

That is why the grave's appetite increases. It opens its mouth very wide so that honored people and common people will go down into it. Those who are noisy and joyous will go down into it. Verse ConceptsGrave, TheThe Glory Of ManThe Fact Of Death

I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I made it go down to the grave with those who go down to the pit. All the well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earth beneath. They also went down with it to the grave to those who were slain by the sword. Those who were its strength lived under its shade among the nations.'

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The mightiest warriors will say to Pharaoh from the grave: You and your defenders have come down. You now lie with the godless people who were killed in battle. Verse ConceptsDying With The UncircumcisedState Of The Dead

Though they dig into the grave my hand will take them. Though they climb to heaven I will bring them down. Verse ConceptsClimbingHand Of GodAstronautsGod's HandExcavationLowering PeopleDesire For DeathGod's Hands In OppositionEscaping From Godsoaring

Moses saw that the people were naked. Aaron had made them naked to their shame among their enemies. Verse ConceptsAmusementsdisgraceShameDegradationPeople Stripping PeopleShame Of Bad Conductvulnerability


The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right according to Jehovah their God. They built high places for themselves in all their towns, from the watchtower to the walled towns. Verse ConceptsSecrecySecret SinsConcealment, Of SinActing In Secret

While Israel remained at Shittim, the people indulged in sexual immorality with the Moabite women. The Moabites invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods. The people ate and bowed down to their gods. So Israel joined itself to Baal of Peor. Jehovah was angry against Israel.

Is your portion among the smooth stones of the stream? They indeed are your lot! Even to them you have poured a drink offering. You have offered a grain offering. Should this give me comfort? Verse Conceptsdrink offeringMaking Cereal Offerings And Libations

You ordained your memorial behind the doors and their posts. You revealed (uncovered) yourself to those other than me. You went to them. You enlarged your bed and made a covenant with them. You have loved their bed, where you saw their naked manhood. You went to the king with ointment and much perfume. You sent your messengers far off, and descended even to the grave.


What is an idol worth after the carver is done? It is merely a false god. Why trust a speechless image made by human hands from wood or metal? Woe to anyone who says to an idol of wood or stone get up! You can learn nothing from idols covered with silver or gold? They cannot breathe or talk.


Has any nation ever exchanged gods? Their gods are not really gods. Yet my people have exchanged their glory for something that does not help them. Verse ConceptsNegotiationPolytheismExchanging Good For BadGod Bestowing GloryNo Help In Other Gods



All who make idols are nothing. The things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind. They are shamefully ignorant. Who shapes a god and casts a useless and good for nothing idol.

But come here, you sons of the witch, you offspring of the adulterer and the prostitute! With whom are you effeminate (self-indulgent)? With whom do you open wide your mouth and offer your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of falsehood and deceit? Are you inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? read more.
Is your portion among the smooth stones of the stream? They indeed are your lot! Even to them you have poured a drink offering. You have offered a grain offering. Should this give me comfort? You placed your bed on a lofty and high mountain. Even there you went up to offer sacrifice. You ordained your memorial behind the doors and their posts. You revealed (uncovered) yourself to those other than me. You went to them. You enlarged your bed and made a covenant with them. You have loved their bed, where you saw their naked manhood. You went to the king with ointment and much perfume. You sent your messengers far off, and descended even to the grave. You are wearied because of the length of your trip. Yet you did not say: I give up. There is no hope. You have found the renewal of your strength. Therefore you were not grieved. Who frightened you? Who made you afraid, that you have lied and not remembered me? You did not take it to your heart. Is it not because I have held my peace from of old that you do not reverence (respect) me? I will declare your righteousness and your works, yet they will not profit you.

Jehovah is my strength and my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble. Nations come to you from the most distant parts of the world and say: Our ancestors have inherited lies, worthless and unprofitable gods. Can people make gods for themselves? They are not really gods!

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? What should a man give in exchange for his life?

Tell the Israelites: 'If Israelites or foreigners living among you give one of their children as a sacrifice to the god Molech, they must be put to death. The common people must stone them to death. Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyPunishment, Legal Aspects OfStonesIdolatry, Wicked Practices OfAliens, Believers DutyStrangersInstructions About StoningDeath Penalty For Heresy

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king. He ruled sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the eyes of Jehovah his God, as David his father did. He walked in ways of the kings of Israel. He even offered his son to walk through the fire. He copied the disgusting ways of the nations. Jehovah sent the people of the nations out of the land before the children of Israel.

Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to rule. He ruled for sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what Jehovah considered right, as his ancestor David had done. He followed the example of the kings of Israel. He even made metal idols for worshiping other gods such as the Baals. He burned sacrifices in the valley of Ben Hinnom. He sacrificed his son by burning him alive. This was one of the disgusting things done by the nations that Jehovah had driven out from the land Israel possessed.

But come here, you sons of the witch, you offspring of the adulterer and the prostitute! With whom are you effeminate (self-indulgent)? With whom do you open wide your mouth and offer your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of falsehood and deceit? Are you inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? read more.
Is your portion among the smooth stones of the stream? They indeed are your lot! Even to them you have poured a drink offering. You have offered a grain offering. Should this give me comfort? You placed your bed on a lofty and high mountain. Even there you went up to offer sacrifice. You ordained your memorial behind the doors and their posts. You revealed (uncovered) yourself to those other than me. You went to them. You enlarged your bed and made a covenant with them. You have loved their bed, where you saw their naked manhood. You went to the king with ointment and much perfume. You sent your messengers far off, and descended even to the grave. You are wearied because of the length of your trip. Yet you did not say: I give up. There is no hope. You have found the renewal of your strength. Therefore you were not grieved. Who frightened you? Who made you afraid, that you have lied and not remembered me? You did not take it to your heart. Is it not because I have held my peace from of old that you do not reverence (respect) me? I will declare your righteousness and your works, yet they will not profit you. When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind will carry them all away. A breath will take them. But he who puts his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.


But come here, you sons of the witch, you offspring of the adulterer and the prostitute! With whom are you effeminate (self-indulgent)? With whom do you open wide your mouth and offer your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of falsehood and deceit? Are you inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? read more.
Is your portion among the smooth stones of the stream? They indeed are your lot! Even to them you have poured a drink offering. You have offered a grain offering. Should this give me comfort? You placed your bed on a lofty and high mountain. Even there you went up to offer sacrifice. You ordained your memorial behind the doors and their posts. You revealed (uncovered) yourself to those other than me. You went to them. You enlarged your bed and made a covenant with them. You have loved their bed, where you saw their naked manhood. You went to the king with ointment and much perfume. You sent your messengers far off, and descended even to the grave. You are wearied because of the length of your trip. Yet you did not say: I give up. There is no hope. You have found the renewal of your strength. Therefore you were not grieved. Who frightened you? Who made you afraid, that you have lied and not remembered me? You did not take it to your heart. Is it not because I have held my peace from of old that you do not reverence (respect) me? I will declare your righteousness and your works, yet they will not profit you. When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind will carry them all away. A breath will take them. But he who puts his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.