Thematic Bible: Used as a perfume
Thematic Bible
myrrh » Used as a perfume
All your clothes are scented with myrrh, aloes, and cassia. From ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.
Each young woman's turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus at the end of the twelve month period, at which time she was treated according to the regulations for women. This process completed the period of her beauty treatments six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and cosmetics for women.
What is this coming up from the desert like columns of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and incense from all the fragrant powders of the merchant?
His cheeks are like beds of spices, like towers of perfume. His lips are lilies, dripping with liquid myrrh.