Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Anointing » Of the body
There shall be olive trees for you in all of your territory, but you shall not anoint [yourself], for your olives shall drop off.
Wash, anoint yourself, put your clothing on, and go down to the threshing floor. Do not make yourself known to the man until he finishes eating and drinking.
When the turn came for each girl to go to King Ahasuerus, after the end of twelve months of being under the regulations of the women--for the days of their beauty treatments had to be filled, six months with the oil of myrrh and six months with perfumes and women's cosmetics--
But you have exalted my horn like [that of] a wild ox; you have anointed me with fresh oil.
and wine [that] makes glad [the] heart of man, so that [their] faces shine from oil, and bread [that] strengthens the heart of man.
Let a righteous one strike me in kindness, and let him chasten me. [It is] oil for [my] head; let not my head refuse. For still my prayer [is] against their evil deeds.
Perfume and incense will gladden a heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend [is] {personal advice}.
Always be clothed in white garments, and never let your head lack oil!
As fragrance, {your perfumes} [are] {delightful}; your name is poured out {perfume}; therefore young women love you.
How beautiful is your love, my sister bride! How better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!
And you climbed down to the king with oil, and you made your perfumes numerous, and you sent your envoys {far away}, and you {sent down deep} to Sheol.
[Alas for those] who drink from sprinkling bowls of wine and anoint themselves with the best of olive oils and are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph.
You yourself will sow, but you will not reap; you will tread olives, but you will not anoint yourself with oil; [you will tread] grapes, but you will not drink wine.
Ointment » Not sacred
When the turn came for each girl to go to King Ahasuerus, after the end of twelve months of being under the regulations of the women--for the days of their beauty treatments had to be filled, six months with the oil of myrrh and six months with perfumes and women's cosmetics--
As fragrance, {your perfumes} [are] {delightful}; your name is poured out {perfume}; therefore young women love you.
How beautiful is your love, my sister bride! How better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!
[Alas for those] who drink from sprinkling bowls of wine and anoint themselves with the best of olive oils and are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph.
Hezekiah heard about them and showed them all of the house of his treasure, both the silver and the gold, the spices, the good olive oil, the room of his weapons, and all that could be found in his treasuries. There was nothing that he did not show them in his palace and in all of his kingdom.
Dead flies cause a bad smell [and] ruin the ointment of the perfumer. So also a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
A good name [is] better than precious ointment, and the day of death [is better] than the day of one's birth.
And [while] he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, [as] he was reclining for a meal, a woman came holding an alabaster flask of very costly perfumed oil of genuine nard. [After] breaking the alabaster flask, she poured [it] out on his head. But some were expressing indignation to one another: "Why has there been this waste of perfumed oil? For this perfumed oil could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor!" And they began to scold her.
Then Mary took a pound of ointment of very valuable genuine nard [and] anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the ointment. But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) said, "{Why} was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?"
Preciousness of Christ » On account of his » Name
As fragrance, {your perfumes} [are] {delightful}; your name is poured out {perfume}; therefore young women love you.
having become by so much better than the angels, by as much as he has inherited a more excellent name than theirs.
Woman » Illustrative » (chaste and holy,) of saints
As fragrance, {your perfumes} [are] {delightful}; your name is poured out {perfume}; therefore young women love you.
These are those who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. These [are] the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were bought from humanity [as] first fruits to God and to the Lamb,
For I am jealous [for] you with a godly jealousy, because I promised you [in marriage] to one husband, to present [you] [as] a pure virgin to Christ.