Thematic Bible: Spices


Thematic Bible



After this, while they were seated, eating their food, they looked around and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead with camels carrying spices, balm, and myrrh for sale down in Egypt.


Come quickly, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, I'll go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.


When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices to go and anoint Jesus.

Then they went back and prepared spices and perfumes, and on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

Nicodemus, the man who had first come to Jesus at night, also arrived, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about 100 litra. They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths along with spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews.

But at early dawn on the first day of the week, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared.


oil for lighting, spices for the anointing oil and for aromatic incense;

oil for lighting, spices for the anointing oil and for aromatic incense,


She brought along a large retinue, camels laden with spices, and lots of gold and precious stones. Upon her arrival, she spoke with Solomon about everything that was on her mind.

Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a vast quantity of spices, and precious stones. No spices ever came again that were comparable to those that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.


Traders from Sheba and Raamah paid for the best of what you had to offer with all types of spices, precious stones, and gold.


and he was buried in his own tomb that he had prepared for himself in the City of David. He was laid out on a bier that had been filled with various spices prepared by morticians, and the mourners built a massive bonfire to honor his memory.


Hezekiah listened to the entourage and showed them his entire treasury, including the silver, gold, and spices, the precious oil, his armory, and everything that was inventoried in his treasuries. There was nothing in his household or in his holdings that Hezekiah did not show them.


"If that's the way it has to be," their father Israel replied, "then do this: take some of the best produce of the land in your containers and take them to the man as a gift some resin ointment, some honey, fragrant resins, myrrh, pistachios, and almonds.


After this, while they were seated, eating their food, they looked around and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead with camels carrying spices, balm, and myrrh for sale down in Egypt.


Others were responsible for the furniture and for all of the holy utensils, including the flour, wine, oil, incense, and spices.


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