53 Bible Verses about Beds

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Job 17:13-16

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness, If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;' where then is my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?read more.
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"

Isaiah 57:7

On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed; there also you went up to offer sacrifice.

Luke 11:7

and he from within will answer and say, 'Don't bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give it to you'?

2 Samuel 4:5-7

The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as he took his rest at noon. They came there into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they struck him in the body: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, and killed him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.

Genesis 49:33

When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.

Amos 6:4

Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

Proverbs 7:16

I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

Psalm 36:4

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.

Psalm 149:5

Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.

Genesis 28:11

He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

Deuteronomy 3:11

(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; isn't it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, after the cubit of a man.)

Esther 1:6

There were hangings of white, green, and blue material, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble.

Exodus 21:18

"If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn't die, but is confined to bed;

Leviticus 15:4

"'Every bed whereon he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall be unclean.

Leviticus 15:6

He who sits on anything whereon the man who has the discharge sat shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Proverbs 22:27

If you don't have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

Ezekiel 23:17

The Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

Hosea 7:14

They haven't cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

Amos 3:12

Thus says Yahweh: "As the shepherd rescues out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel be rescued who sit in Samaria on the corner of a couch, and on the silken cushions of a bed."

Mark 6:55

and ran around that whole region, and began to bring those who were sick, on their mats, to where they heard he was.

Acts 5:15

They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some of them.

2 Samuel 17:28

brought beds, and basins, and earthen vessels, and wheat, and barley, and meal, and parched [grain], and beans, and lentils, and parched [pulse],

2 Kings 4:10

Please let us make a little room on the wall. Let us set for him there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. It shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there."

Isaiah 28:20

For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.

Esther 7:8

Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?" As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

Matthew 9:2

Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you."

Luke 5:18

Behold, men brought a paralyzed man on a cot, and they sought to bring him in to lay before Jesus.

Matthew 9:6

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins..." (then he said to the paralytic), "Get up, and take up your mat, and go up to your house."

Mark 2:9

Which is easier, to tell the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven;' or to say, 'Arise, and take up your bed, and walk?'

Mark 2:11-12

"I tell you, arise, take up your mat, and go to your house." He arose, and immediately took up the mat, and went out in front of them all; so that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, "We never saw anything like this!"

Luke 5:24

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins" (he said to the paralyzed man), "I tell you, arise, and take up your cot, and go to your house."

John 5:8-12

Jesus said to him, "Arise, take up your mat, and walk." Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day. So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat."read more.
He answered them, "He who made me well, the same said to me, 'Take up your mat, and walk.'" Then they asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your mat, and walk'?"

Acts 9:34

Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed!" Immediately he arose.

Acts 9:33

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

2 Samuel 4:7

Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, and killed him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.

2 Samuel 4:11

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?"

2 Samuel 11:2

It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.

Proverbs 26:14

As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.

Job 7:13

When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;'

Isaiah 57:8

Behind the doors and the posts you have set up your memorial: for you have uncovered to someone besides me, and have gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you a covenant with them: you loved their bed where you saw it.

Mark 7:30

She went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out.

Luke 17:34

I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. The one will be taken, and the other will be left.

Revelation 2:22

Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent of her works.

Genesis 47:31

He said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him. Israel bowed himself on the bed's head.

Genesis 48:2

Someone told Jacob, and said, "Behold, your son Joseph comes to you," and Israel strengthened himself, and sat on the bed.

1 Samuel 28:23

But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat on the bed.

Exodus 8:3

and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs:

1 Samuel 19:13-16

Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at its head, and covered it with the clothes. When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick." Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him."read more.
When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' hair at its head.

Mark 2:4

When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.

Luke 5:19

Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the midst before Jesus.

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Beds » Used for » Reclining on at meals

1 Samuel 28:23-25

But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat on the bed. The woman had a fattened calf in the house. She hurried and killed it; and she took flour, and kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread of it. She brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they ate. Then they rose up, and went away that night.

Amos 6:4-6

Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David; who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

Luke 7:36-38

One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat at the table. Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment. Standing behind at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and she wiped them with the hair of her head, kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

Beds » Saints meditate and praise God while on

Psalm 149:5

Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.

Song of Songs 3:1

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him.

Beds » Not used in affliction

2 Samuel 13:31

Then the king arose, and tore his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.

Beds » Supplied with pillows

1 Samuel 26:7

So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the place of the wagons, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people lay around him.

1 Samuel 19:13

Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at its head, and covered it with the clothes.

Beds » Often perfumed

Proverbs 7:17

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Ezekiel 23:41

and sit on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil.

Beds » Used for » Reclining on by day

2 Samuel 11:2

It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.

2 Samuel 4:5

The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as he took his rest at noon.

Beds » Antiquity of

Genesis 47:31

He said, "Swear to me," and he swore to him. Israel bowed himself on the bed's head.

Exodus 8:3

and the river shall swarm with frogs, which shall go up and come into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your bed, and into the house of your servants, and on your people, and into your ovens, and into your kneading troughs:

Beds » Persons sometimes took to, in grief

1 Kings 21:4

Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

Hosea 7:14

They haven't cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.

Beds » Made of » Wood

Song of Songs 3:7-8

Behold, it is Solomon's carriage! Sixty mighty men are around it, of the mighty men of Israel. They all handle the sword, and are expert in war. Every man has his sword on his thigh, because of fear in the night.

Beds » The wicked devise mischief while on

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Psalm 36:4

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn't abhor evil.

Beds » Used for » Sleeping on

Job 33:15

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;

Luke 11:7

and he from within will answer and say, 'Don't bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can't get up and give it to you'?

Beds » Couches or divans used as

Job 7:13

When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;'

Psalm 6:6

I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.

Beds » Made of » Iron

Deuteronomy 3:11

(For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; isn't it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, after the cubit of a man.)

Beds » Of the poor covered with their upper garment

Exodus 22:26-27

If you take your neighbor's garment as collateral, you shall restore it to him before the sun goes down, for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What would he sleep in? It will happen, when he cries to me, that I will hear, for I am gracious.

Beds » A small pallet or mattress used as

1 Samuel 19:15

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

Leviticus 15:4

"'Every bed whereon he who has the discharge lies shall be unclean; and everything he sits on shall be unclean.

Beds » Of the poor often sold for debt

Proverbs 22:27

If you don't have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?

Beds » The slothful too fond of

Proverbs 26:14

As the door turns on its hinges, so does the sluggard on his bed.

Beds » Covered with tapestry and linen

Proverbs 7:16

I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

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

Isaiah 28:20

For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket is too narrow to wrap oneself in.

Beds » Considered necessary

2 Kings 4:10

Please let us make a little room on the wall. Let us set for him there a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp stand. It shall be, when he comes to us, that he shall turn in there."

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

Isaiah 57:7

On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed; there also you went up to offer sacrifice.

Beds » Illustrative » Of the grave

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

Beds » Made of » Gold and silver

Esther 1:6

There were hangings of white, green, and blue material, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble.

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

Job 17:13

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,

Beds » Made of » Ivory

Amos 6:4

Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

Beds » Purification of

Mark 7:4

They don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

Ivory » Other articles made of » Beds

Amos 6:4

Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

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