Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Anointing » Of the body
You shall have olive trees throughout all your coasts, but you shall not anoint with the oil, for your olive shall drop off its fruit.
Therefore wash yourself, and anoint yourself, and put your clothing upon you, and go down to the floor. Do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.
And when the turn of each young woman had come to go in to King Ahasuerus, after she had been purified twelve months, according to the law of the women (for so the days of their anointing were done, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors, and with the perfumes of the women).
But You shall lift up my horn as the wild ox; and I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
and wine cheers the heart of man, and oil makes his face shine, and bread sustains the heart of man.
Let the righteous strike me; it shall be a kindness; and let him correct me, it is oil on my head, let not my head refuse it; for still my prayer also shall be against their wickedness.
Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; so does the sweetness of one's friend by advice from the heart.
Let your garments be always white; and let your head lack no ointment.
For Your ointments have a lovely fragrance; Your name is as oil poured out; therefore the virgins love You.
How fair is your love, My sister, My spouse! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your ointments than all spices!
And you went to the king with ointment, and increased your perfumes, and sent your messengers far off, and lowered yourself even to hell.
who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best of oils; nor do they grieve for the breaking of Joseph!
You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but you shall not anoint yourself with oil; and sweet wine, but shall not drink wine.
Ointment » Not sacred
And when the turn of each young woman had come to go in to King Ahasuerus, after she had been purified twelve months, according to the law of the women (for so the days of their anointing were done, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors, and with the perfumes of the women).
For Your ointments have a lovely fragrance; Your name is as oil poured out; therefore the virgins love You.
How fair is your love, My sister, My spouse! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your ointments than all spices!
who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best of oils; nor do they grieve for the breaking of Joseph!
And Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all the house of his precious things, the silver and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion which Hezekiah did not show them.
As dead flies cause the perfumer's ointment to stink and ferment; so a little folly is more rare than wisdom and than 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 reclined, a woman came with an alabaster vial of pure, costly ointment of spikenard. And she broke the vial and poured it on His head. And some were indignant to themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? For it might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and be given to the poor. And they were incensed with her.
Then Mary took a pound of ointment of pure 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 was to betray Him) Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?
Preciousness of Christ » On account of his » Name
For Your ointments have a lovely fragrance; Your name is as oil poured out; therefore 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
For Your ointments have a lovely fragrance; Your name is as oil poured out; therefore the virgins love You.
These are those who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, as a firstfruit to God and to the Lamb.
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy. For I have espoused you to one Man, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.