53 Bible Verses about Beds
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If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness, if I say to the pit, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My mother,' or 'My sister,' where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?read more.
Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we descend together into the dust?"
The LORD sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health.
On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifice.
and he will answer from within, 'Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything'?
Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ish-bosheth as he was taking his noonday rest. And they came into the midst of the house as if to get wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and put him to death and beheaded him. They took his head and went by the way of the Arabah all night,
When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people.
"Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory and stretch themselves out on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall,
I have spread my couch with coverings, colored linens from Egyptian linen;
He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep.
(For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)
There were white cotton curtains and violet hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rods and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and precious stones.
"When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed,
Every bed on which the one with the discharge lies shall be unclean, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.
And whoever sits on anything on which the one with the discharge has sat shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.
If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, she turned from them in disgust.
They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain and wine they gash themselves; they rebel against me.
Thus says the LORD: "As the shepherd rescues from the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the people of Israel who dwell in Samaria be rescued, with the corner of a couch and part of a bed.
and ran about the whole region and began to bring the sick people on their beds to wherever they heard he was.
so that they even carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.
brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, wheat, barley, flour, parched grain, beans and lentils,
Let us make a small room on the roof with walls and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there."
For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in.
And the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. And the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?" As the word left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman's face.
And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven."
And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Jesus,
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"--he then said to the paralytic--"Rise, pick up your bed and go home."
Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise, take up your bed and walk'?
"I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home." And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"
But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"--he said to the man who was paralyzed--"I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home."
Jesus said to him, "Get up, take up your bed, and walk." And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed."read more.
But he answered them, "The man who healed me, that man said to me, 'Take up your bed, and walk.'" They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your bed and walk'?"
And Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed." And immediately he rose.
There he found a man named Aeneas, bedridden for eight years, who was paralyzed.
When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and put him to death and beheaded him. They took his head and went by the way of the Arabah all night,
How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?"
It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
Behind the door and the doorpost you have set up your memorial; for, deserting me, you have uncovered your bed, you have gone up to it, you have made it wide; and you have made a covenant for yourself with them, you have loved their bed, you have looked on nakedness.
I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left.
But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?"
Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works,
And he said, "Swear to me"; and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed.
And it was told to Jacob, "Your son Joseph has come to you." Then Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed.
He refused and said, "I will not eat." But his servants, together with the woman, urged him, and he listened to their words. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed.
The Nile shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls.
Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head and covered it with the clothes. And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick." Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him."read more.
And when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' hair at its head.
And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay.
but finding no way to bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before Jesus.
From Thematic Bible
Beds » Used for » Reclining on at meals
He refused and said, "I will not eat." But his servants, together with the woman, urged him, and he listened to their words. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed. Now the woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly killed it, and she took flour and kneaded it and baked unleavened bread of it, and she put it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they rose and went away that night.
"Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory and stretch themselves out on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall, who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David invent for themselves instruments of music, who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!
One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and took his place at the table. And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.
One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table close to Jesus,
Beds » Saints meditate and praise God while on
Be angry, and do not sin; ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah
On my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him, but found him not.
Beds » Not used in affliction
David therefore sought God on behalf of the child. And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.
Then the king arose and tore his garments and lay on the earth. And all his servants who were standing by tore their garments.
Beds » Supplied with pillows
So David and Abishai went to the army by night. And there lay Saul sleeping within the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the army lay around him.
Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head and covered it with the clothes.
Beds » Often perfumed
You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.
Beds » Used for » Reclining on by day
It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ish-bosheth as he was taking his noonday rest.
Beds » Antiquity of
And he said, "Swear to me"; and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed.
The Nile shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls.
Beds » Persons sometimes took to, in grief
And Ahab went into his house vexed and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, for he had said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and would eat no food.
They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain and wine they gash themselves; they rebel against me.
Beds » Made of » Wood
Behold, it is the litter of Solomon! Around it are sixty mighty men, some of the mighty men of Israel, all of them wearing swords and expert in war, each with his sword at his thigh, against terror by night.
Beds » The wicked devise mischief while on
Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.
He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil.
Beds » Used for » Sleeping on
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds,
and he will answer from within, 'Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything'?
Beds » Couches or divans used as
I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.
Beds » Made of » Iron
(For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)
Beds » Of the poor covered with their upper garment
If ever you take your neighbor's cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
Beds » A small pallet or mattress used as
Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him."
Beds » Subject to ceremonial defilement
Every bed on which the one with the discharge lies shall be unclean, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.
Beds » Of the poor often sold for debt
If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
Beds » The slothful too fond of
Beds » Covered with tapestry and linen
I have spread my couch with coverings, colored linens from Egyptian linen;
Beds » Illustrative » (too short,) of plans which afford no rest or peace
For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in.
Beds » Considered necessary
Let us make a small room on the roof with walls and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp, so that whenever he comes to us, he can go in there."
Beds » Illustrative » (made on high,) of carnal security
On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifice.
Beds » Illustrative » Of the grave
he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.
Beds » Illustrative » (made in sickness,) of divine support and comfort
The LORD sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health.
Beds » Made of » Gold and silver
There were white cotton curtains and violet hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rods and marble pillars, and also couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and precious stones.
Beds » Illustrative » (made in darkness,) of extreme misery
Beds » Made of » Ivory
"Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory and stretch themselves out on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall,
Beds » Purification of
and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.)
Ivory » Other articles made of » Beds
"Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory and stretch themselves out on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall,
