53 Bible Verses about Beds

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Job 17:13-16

"If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness, if I call out to the Pit, "You're my father!' or say to the worm, "My mother!' or "My sister!' where would my hope be? "And speaking of my hope, who would notice it?read more.
Will it go down to the bars that lock the doors of the afterlife? Will we descend together into the dust?"

Isaiah 57:7

"You have made your bed on a high and lofty mountain, and you went up to offer sacrifice there.

Luke 11:7

Suppose he answers from inside, "Stop bothering me! The door is already locked, and my children are here with us in the bedroom. I can't get up and give you anything!'

2 Samuel 4:5-7

Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, left and arrived during the hottest part of the day at the home of Ish-bosheth while he was taking a noon day nap. They entered the house as though they intended to obtain some grain and stabbed him in the abdomen. Then Rechab and his brother Baanah escaped. While they were in the house, they struck him, killed him, and cut off his head while he was lying on his bed in his bedroom. They took his head, and traveled all night along the Arabah road.

Genesis 49:33

After concluding this set of instructions to his sons, Jacob tucked his feet up into bed, quit breathing, and was gathered to his ancestors.

Amos 6:4

lying on ivory beds, stretching out on your couches, eating lambs from the flock, and fattened calves from the stall,

Proverbs 7:16

I've decorated my bed with new coverings embroidered linen from Egypt.

Psalm 36:4

He devises iniquity on his bed and is determined to follow a path that is not good. He does not resist evil.

Psalm 149:5

May those he loves be exalted, singing for joy on their couches.

Genesis 28:11

He reached a certain place and spent the night there, because the sun was setting. He found a stone there, used it for a pillow, and slept there for the night,

Deuteronomy 3:11

Only King Og of Bashan remained from the remnants of the Rephaim. In fact, his bed was made of iron. It's in Rabbah of the Ammonites, isn't it? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide."

Esther 1:6

There were curtains of white and blue linen tied with cords of fine linen and purple material to silver rings on marble columns. There were couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and other precious stones.

Exodus 21:18

"If people quarrel and one strikes the other with a rock or his fist, and he does not die but ends up in bed,

Leviticus 15:4

Every bed on which he lies down with the discharge is to be considered unclean, and every object on which he sits becomes unclean.

Leviticus 15:6

Whoever sits on any object on which the one with the discharge has sat is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

Proverbs 22:27

If you don't have the ability to pay, why should your very bed be taken from under you?

Ezekiel 23:17

The Babylonians came to her love nest and defiled her with their sexual immorality. As a result, she was defiled by them. Even so, she turned away from them in disgust.

Hosea 7:14

They will not cry to me from their heart instead, they wail on their beds. They gather together to eat and drink, turning away from me.

Amos 3:12

This is what the LORD says: "Just as a shepherd might save from the lion's mouth only two leg bones or a scrap of an ear, the Israelis will be saved in a similar manner those in Samaria who sit on the remains of their broken beds, and those in Damascus who lie on the edge of their couches."

Mark 6:55

They ran all over the countryside and began carrying the sick on their mats to any place where they heard he was.

Acts 5:15

As a result, people kept carrying their sick into the streets and placing them on stretchers and mats so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he went by.

2 Samuel 17:28

They brought along bedding, bowls, clay basins, wheat, barley, flour, roasted grains, beans, peas,

2 Kings 4:10

Now then, let's build a small upper room and put a bed in it for him there, along with a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. That way, when he comes to visit, he can rest there."

Isaiah 28:20

because the bed is too short to stretch out on, and its blankets too narrow to wrap around oneself!

Esther 7:8

When the king returned to the banquet hall from the palace garden, Haman was prostrate on the couch where Esther was. The king asked, "Will this man even assault the queen with me in the house?" The king had no sooner spoken than they covered Haman's face.

Matthew 9:2

All at once some people brought him a paralyzed man lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he told the paralyzed man, "Be courageous, son! Your sins are forgiven."

Luke 5:18

Some men were bringing a paralyzed man on a stretcher. They were trying to take him into the house and place him in front of Jesus.

Matthew 9:6

But so you will know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"" he told the paralyzed man, "Get up, pick up your stretcher, and go home!"

Mark 2:9

"Which is easier: to say to the paralyzed man, "Your sins are forgiven,' or "Get up, pick up your mat, and walk'?

Mark 2:11-12

"I say to you, get up, pick up your mat, and go home!" So the man got up, immediately picked up his mat, and went out in front of all of them. As a result, all of the people were amazed and began to glorify God as they kept on saying, "We have never seen anything like this!"

Luke 5:24

But so you'll know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"." he told the paralyzed man, "I say to you: Get up, pick up your stretcher, and go home!"

John 5:8-12

Jesus told him, "Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!" The man immediately became well, and he picked up his mat and started walking. Now that day was a Sabbath. So the Jewish leaders told the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.read more.
But he answered them, "The man who made me well told me, "Pick up your mat and walk.'" They asked him, "Who is the man who told you, "Pick it up and walk'?"

Acts 9:34

Peter told him, "Aeneas, Jesus the Messiah is healing you. Get up and put away your mat!" At once he got up,

Acts 9:33

There he found a man named Aeneas who was paralyzed and had been bedridden for eight years.

2 Samuel 4:7

While they were in the house, they struck him, killed him, and cut off his head while he was lying on his bed in his bedroom. They took his head, and traveled all night along the Arabah road.

2 Samuel 4:11

How much worse will it be, then, when evil men kill an innocent man on his own bed in his own house! Shouldn't I avenge his blood which you are responsible for shedding by removing you from the earth?"

2 Samuel 11:2

Late one afternoon about dusk, David got up from his couch and was walking around on the roof of the royal palace. From there he watched a woman taking a bath, and she was very beautiful to look at.

Proverbs 26:14

The door turns on its hinges as does the lazy person on his bed.

Job 7:13

For I've said, "My bed will comfort me; my couch will ease my burdens while I complain.'

Isaiah 57:8

Behind the doors and the doorposts you have set up your pagan sign." For in deserting me you have uncovered your bed you have climbed up into it and have opened it wide. And you have made a pact for yourself with them; you have loved their bed, you have looked on their private parts.

Mark 7:30

So she went home and found her child lying in bed, and the demon was gone.

Luke 17:34

I tell you, two will be seated on the same couch that night. The one will be taken, and the other will be left behind.

Mark 4:38

But Jesus was in the back of the boat, asleep on a cushion. So they woke him up and asked him, "Teacher, don't you care that we're going to die?"

Revelation 2:22

Look! I am going to strike her with illness. Those who commit adultery with her will also suffer greatly, unless they repent from acting like her.

Genesis 47:31

"Promise me," Israel insisted. So Joseph promised. Then Israel collapsed on his bed.

Genesis 48:2

As soon as Jacob was informed, "Look! Your son Joseph has come to visit you," Israel rallied his strength and sat up in bed.

1 Samuel 28:23

Saul refused, saying, "I won't eat!"

Exodus 8:3

The Nile will swarm with frogs. They'll come up and enter your house, your bedroom, your bed, and your servants' houses. They'll jump on your people, into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs.

1 Samuel 19:13-16

Then Michal took the household idol and laid it on the bed with a cover of goat hair placed at its head. Then she covered it with clothes. When Saul sent the messengers to take David, Michal said, "He's sick." Then Saul sent messengers to check on David. He told them, "Bring him to me on the bed so I may kill him." read more.
The messengers went in, and there was the household idol in the bed with the cover of goat hair at its head!

Mark 2:4

Since they couldn't bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof over the place where he was. They dug through it and let down the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying.

Luke 5:19

When they couldn't find a way to get him in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down on his stretcher through the tiles into the middle of the room, right in front of Jesus.

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Beds » Used for » Reclining on at meals

1 Samuel 28:23-25

Saul refused, saying, "I won't eat!" Both his servants and the woman urged him, and so he listened to them. He got up off the ground and sat on the bed. The woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread. She brought it to Saul and to his servants, and they ate. Then they got up and went out that night.

Amos 6:4-6

lying on ivory beds, stretching out on your couches, eating lambs from the flock, and fattened calves from the stall, chanting to the sound of stringed instruments as if they were David, composing songs to themselves as if they were musicians, drinking wine from bowls, anointing themselves with the choicest of oils, but not grieving on the occasion of Joseph's ruin

Luke 7:36-38

Now one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to eat with him. So he went to the Pharisee's home and took his place at the table. There was a woman who was a notorious sinner in that city. When she learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's home, she took an alabaster jar of perfume and knelt at his feet behind him. She was crying and began to wash his feet with her tears and dry them with her hair. Then she kissed his feet over and over again, anointing them constantly with the perfume.

Beds » Saints meditate and praise God while on

Psalm 149:5

May those he loves be exalted, singing for joy on their couches.

Song of Songs 3:1

Night after night on my bed, I sought the one I love; I sought him, but didn't find him.

Beds » Not used in affliction

2 Samuel 12:16

After this, the LORD afflicted the child that Uriah's wife had born to David, and the child became very ill. David begged God on behalf of the youngster. He fasted, went inside, and spent the night lying on the ground.

2 Samuel 13:31

David arose, ripped his clothes in anguish, and collapsed to the ground while all of his staff stood by with their own clothes torn.

Beds » Supplied with pillows

1 Samuel 26:7

David and Abishai went to the army at night, and Saul was lying there asleep in the encampment. His spear was stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the army were lying all around him.

1 Samuel 19:13

Then Michal took the household idol and laid it on the bed with a cover of goat hair placed at its head. Then she covered it with clothes.

Beds » Often perfumed

Proverbs 7:17

I've perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Ezekiel 23:41

then sat down on an elegant bed. A table was arranged in front of it, on which you set out my incense and oil.

Beds » Used for » Reclining on by day

2 Samuel 11:2

Late one afternoon about dusk, David got up from his couch and was walking around on the roof of the royal palace. From there he watched a woman taking a bath, and she was very beautiful to look at.

2 Samuel 4:5

Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, left and arrived during the hottest part of the day at the home of Ish-bosheth while he was taking a noon day nap.

Beds » Antiquity of

Genesis 47:31

"Promise me," Israel insisted. So Joseph promised. Then Israel collapsed on his bed.

Exodus 8:3

The Nile will swarm with frogs. They'll come up and enter your house, your bedroom, your bed, and your servants' houses. They'll jump on your people, into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs.

Beds » Persons sometimes took to, in grief

1 Kings 21:4

Ahab went back to his palace, sullen and in a foul mood, because Naboth the Jezreelite had turned down Ahab's offer by saying "I will not transfer my ancestors' inheritance to you!" He laid down on his bed, curled up with his face to the wall, and refused to eat.

Hosea 7:14

They will not cry to me from their heart instead, they wail on their beds. They gather together to eat and drink, turning away from me.

Beds » Made of » Wood

Song of Songs 3:7-8

Look! It's Solomon's sedan chair, with 60 of the best soldiers in Israel surrounding it. All of them are wearing swords and are experienced in battle. Each has his sword on his thigh, ready for the terror of the night.

Beds » The wicked devise mischief while on

Micah 2:1

"Woe to those who are crafting iniquity, planning evil well into the night! When morning's light comes, they carry out their plans because they have the power to do so.

Psalm 36:4

He devises iniquity on his bed and is determined to follow a path that is not good. He does not resist evil.

Beds » Used for » Sleeping on

Job 33:15

in a dream or night vision, when a deep sleep falls on mankind while they sleep on their beds.

Luke 11:7

Suppose he answers from inside, "Stop bothering me! The door is already locked, and my children are here with us in the bedroom. I can't get up and give you anything!'

Beds » Couches or divans used as

Job 7:13

For I've said, "My bed will comfort me; my couch will ease my burdens while I complain.'

Psalm 6:6

I am weary from my groaning. Every night my couch is drenched with tears, my bed is soaked through.

Beds » Made of » Iron

Deuteronomy 3:11

Only King Og of Bashan remained from the remnants of the Rephaim. In fact, his bed was made of iron. It's in Rabbah of the Ammonites, isn't it? It was nine cubits long and four cubits wide."

Beds » Of the poor covered with their upper garment

Exodus 22:26-27

If you take your neighbor's coat as collateral, you are to return it to him by sunset, for it's his only covering; it's his outer garment, for what else can he sleep in? And when he cries out to me, I'll hear him, for I am gracious.

Beds » A small pallet or mattress used as

1 Samuel 19:15

Then Saul sent messengers to check on David. He told them, "Bring him to me on the bed so I may kill him."

Beds » Subject to ceremonial defilement

Leviticus 15:4

Every bed on which he lies down with the discharge is to be considered unclean, and every object on which he sits becomes unclean.

Beds » Of the poor often sold for debt

Proverbs 22:27

If you don't have the ability to pay, why should your very bed be taken from under you?

Beds » The slothful too fond of

Proverbs 26:14

The door turns on its hinges as does the lazy person on his bed.

Beds » Covered with tapestry and linen

Proverbs 7:16

I've decorated my bed with new coverings embroidered linen from Egypt.

Beds » Illustrative » (too short,) of plans which afford no rest or peace

Isaiah 28:20

because the bed is too short to stretch out on, and its blankets too narrow to wrap around oneself!

Beds » Considered necessary

2 Kings 4:10

Now then, let's build a small upper room and put a bed in it for him there, along with a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. That way, when he comes to visit, he can rest there."

Beds » Illustrative » (made on high,) of carnal security

Isaiah 57:7

"You have made your bed on a high and lofty mountain, and you went up to offer sacrifice there.

Beds » Illustrative » Of the grave

Isaiah 57:2

Then he enters into peace, and they'll rest on his couches, each one living righteously.

Beds » Illustrative » (made in sickness,) of divine support and comfort

Beds » Made of » Gold and silver

Esther 1:6

There were curtains of white and blue linen tied with cords of fine linen and purple material to silver rings on marble columns. There were couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and other precious stones.

Beds » Illustrative » (made in darkness,) of extreme misery

Job 17:13

"If my hope were that my house is the afterlife itself, if I were to make my bed in darkness,

Beds » Made of » Ivory

Amos 6:4

lying on ivory beds, stretching out on your couches, eating lambs from the flock, and fattened calves from the stall,

Beds » Purification of

Mark 7:4

They don't eat anything from the marketplace unless they dip it in water. They also observe many other traditions, such as the proper washing of washing cups, jars, brass pots, and dinner tables.)

Ivory » Other articles made of » Beds

Amos 6:4

lying on ivory beds, stretching out on your couches, eating lambs from the flock, and fattened calves from the stall,

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