Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Anointing » Of the body
You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.
Wash yourself therefore, and anoint yourself, and put your best clothes upon you, and get down to the floor: but make not yourself known unto the man, until he shall have finished eating and drinking.
Now when every maiden's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after she had been there twelve months, according to the regulations for the women, (for so were the days of their beautification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfumes, and with other preparations for beautifying women;)
But my horn shall you exalt like the horn of a wild ox: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
And wine that makes glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengthens man's heart.
Let the righteous strike me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be against their evil.
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.
Let your garments be always white; and let your head lack no ointment.
Because of the fragrance of your good ointments your name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love you.
How fair is your love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is your love than wine! and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices!
And you went to the king with ointment, and did increase your perfumes, and did send your messengers far off, and did debase yourself even unto sheol.
That drink wine in bowls, and anoint yourselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but you shall not anoint yourself with oil; and make sweet wine, but shall not drink wine.
Ointment » Not sacred
Now when every maiden's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after she had been there twelve months, according to the regulations for the women, (for so were the days of their beautification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfumes, and with other preparations for beautifying women;)
Because of the fragrance of your good ointments your name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love you.
How fair is your love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is your love than wine! and the fragrance of your perfume than all spices!
That drink wine in bowls, and anoint yourselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
And Hezekiah hearkened unto them, and showed them all the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not.
Dead flies cause the ointment of the perfumer to send forth a foul odor: so does a little folly to him that is respected for wisdom and honor.
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at table, there came a woman having an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard very precious; and she broke the flask, and poured it on his head. And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odor of the ointment. Then said one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who would betray him, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
Preciousness of Christ » On account of his » Name
Because of the fragrance of your good ointments your name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love you.
Being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Woman » Illustrative » (chaste and holy,) of saints
Because of the fragrance of your good ointments your name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love you.
These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb.
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.