53 Bible Verses about Beds

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Job 17:13-16

If I wait -- Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch. To corruption I have called: -- 'Thou art my father.' 'My mother' and 'my sister' -- to the worm. And where is now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?read more.
To the parts of Sheol ye go down, If together on the dust we may rest.

Isaiah 57:7

On a mountain, high and exalted, Thou hast set thy couch, Also thither thou hast gone up to make a sacrifice.

Luke 11:7

and he from within answering may say, Do not give me trouble, already the door hath been shut, and my children with me are in the bed, I am not able, having risen, to give to thee.

2 Samuel 4:5-7

And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, go, and come in at the heat of the day unto the house of Ish-Bosheth, and he is lying down -- the lying down of noon; and thither they have come, unto the midst of the house, taking wheat, and they smite him unto the fifth rib, and Rechab and Baanah his brother have escaped; yea, they come in to the house, and he is lying on his bed, in the inner part of his bed-chamber, and they smite him, and put him to death, and turn aside his head, and they take his head, and go the way of the plain all the night,

Genesis 49:33

And Jacob finisheth commanding his sons, and gathereth up his feet unto the bed, and expireth, and is gathered unto his people.

Amos 6:4

Who are lying down on beds of ivory, And are spread out on their couches, And are eating lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the stall,

Proverbs 7:16

With ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works -- cotton of Egypt.

Psalm 36:4

Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'

Psalm 149:5

Exult do saints in honour, They sing aloud on their beds.

Genesis 28:11

and he toucheth at a certain place, and lodgeth there, for the sun hath gone in, and he taketh of the stones of the place, and maketh them his pillows, and lieth down in that place.

Deuteronomy 3:11

for only Og king of Bashan had been left of the remnant of the Rephaim; lo, his bedstead is a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the sons of Ammon? nine cubits its length, and four cubits its breadth, by the cubit of a man.

Esther 1:6

white linen, white cotton, and blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple on rings of silver, and pillars of marble, couches of gold, and of silver, on a pavement of smaragdus, and white marble, and mother-of-pearl, and black marble --

Exodus 21:18

'And when men contend, and a man hath smitten his neighbour with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but hath fallen on the bed;

Leviticus 15:4

'All the bed on which he lieth who hath the issue is unclean, and all the vessel on which he sitteth is unclean;

Leviticus 15:6

'And he who is sitting on the vessel on which he sitteth who hath the issue, doth wash his garments, and hath bathed with water, and been unclean till the evening.

Proverbs 22:27

If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee?

Ezekiel 23:17

And come in unto her do sons of Babylon, To the bed of loves, And they defile her with their whoredoms, And she is defiled with them, And her soul is alienated from them.

Hosea 7:14

And have not cried unto Me with their heart, but howl on their beds, For corn and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn aside against Me.

Amos 3:12

Thus said Jehovah: As the shepherd delivereth from the lion's mouth Two legs, or a piece of an ear, So delivered are the sons of Israel, Who are sitting in Samaria on the corner of a bed, And in Damascus on that of a couch.

Mark 6:55

having run about through all that region round about, they began upon the couches to carry about those ill, where they were hearing that he is,

Acts 5:15

so as into the broad places to bring forth the ailing, and to lay them upon couches and mats, that at the coming of Peter, even his shadow might overshadow some one of them;

2 Samuel 17:28

couch, and basin, and earthen vessel, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and roasted corn, and beans, and lentiles, and roasted pulse,

2 Kings 4:10

let us make, I pray thee, a little upper chamber of the wall, and we set for him there a bed, and a table, and a high seat, and a candlestick; and it hath been, in his coming in unto us, he doth turn aside thither.'

Isaiah 28:20

For shorter hath been the bed Than to stretch one's self out in, And the covering hath been narrower Than to wrap one's self up in.

Esther 7:8

And the king hath turned back out of the garden of the house unto the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman is falling on the couch on which Esther is, and the king saith, 'Also to subdue the queen with me in the house?' the word hath gone out from the mouth of the king, and the face of Haman they have covered.

Matthew 9:2

and lo, they were bringing to him a paralytic, laid upon a couch, and Jesus having seen their faith, said to the paralytic, 'Be of good courage, child, thy sins have been forgiven thee.'

Luke 5:18

And lo, men bearing upon a couch a man, who hath been struck with palsy, and they were seeking to bring him in, and to place before him,

Matthew 9:6

But, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath power upon the earth to forgive sins -- (then saith he to the paralytic) -- having risen, take up thy couch, and go to thy house.'

Mark 2:9

which is easier, to say to the paralytic, The sins have been forgiven to thee? or to say, Rise, and take up thy couch, and walk?

Mark 2:11-12

I say to thee, Rise, and take up thy couch, and go away to thy house;' and he rose immediately, and having taken up the couch, he went forth before all, so that all were astonished, and do glorify God, saying -- 'Never thus did we see.'

Luke 5:24

And that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority upon the earth to forgive sins -- (he said to the one struck with palsy) -- I say to thee, Arise, and having taken up thy little couch, be going on to thy house.'

John 5:8-12

Jesus saith to him, 'Rise, take up thy couch, and be walking;' and immediately the man became whole, and he took up his couch, and was walking, and it was a sabbath on that day, the Jews then said to him that hath been healed, 'It is a sabbath; it is not lawful to thee to take up the couch.'read more.
He answered them, 'He who made me whole -- that one said to me, Take up thy couch, and be walking;' they questioned him, then, 'Who is the man who is saying to thee, Take up thy couch and be walking?'

Acts 9:34

and Peter said to him, 'Aeneas, heal thee doth Jesus the Christ; arise and spread for thyself;' and immediately he rose,

Acts 9:33

and he found there a certain man, Aeneas by name -- for eight years laid upon a couch -- who was paralytic,

2 Samuel 4:7

yea, they come in to the house, and he is lying on his bed, in the inner part of his bed-chamber, and they smite him, and put him to death, and turn aside his head, and they take his head, and go the way of the plain all the night,

2 Samuel 4:11

Also -- when wicked men have slain the righteous man in his own house, on his bed; and now, do not I require his blood of your hand, and have taken you away from the earth?'

2 Samuel 11:2

and it cometh to pass, at evening-time, that David riseth from off his couch, and walketh up and down on the roof of the king's house, and seeth from the roof a woman bathing, and the woman is of very good appearance,

Proverbs 26:14

The door turneth round on its hinge, And the slothful on his bed.

Job 7:13

When I said, 'My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.

Isaiah 57:8

And behind the door, and the post, Thou hast set up thy memorial, For from Me thou hast removed, and goest up, Thou hast enlarged thy couch, And dost covenant for thyself among them, Thou hast loved their couch, the station thou sawest,

Mark 7:30

and having come away to her house, she found the demon gone forth, and the daughter laid upon the couch.

Luke 17:34

'I say to you, In that night, there shall be two men on one couch, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;

Mark 4:38

and he himself was upon the stern, upon the pillow sleeping, and they wake him up, and say to him, 'Teacher, art thou not caring that we perish?'

Revelation 2:22

lo, I will cast her into a couch, and those committing adultery with her into great tribulation -- if they may not repent of their works,

Genesis 47:31

and he saith, 'Swear to me;' and he sweareth to him, and Israel boweth himself on the head of the bed.

Genesis 48:2

And one declareth to Jacob, and saith, 'Lo, thy son Joseph is coming unto thee;' and Israel doth strengthen himself, and sit upon the bed.

1 Samuel 28:23

And he refuseth, and saith, 'I do not eat;' and his servants urge on him, and also the woman, and he hearkeneth to their voice, and riseth from the earth, and sitteth on the bed.

Exodus 8:3

and the River hath teemed with frogs, and they have gone up and gone into thy house, and into the inner-chamber of thy bed, and on thy couch, and into the house of thy servants, and among thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs;

1 Samuel 19:13-16

and Michal taketh the teraphim, and layeth on the bed, and the mattress of goats' hair she hath put for his pillows, and covereth with a garment. And Saul sendeth messengers to take David, and she saith, 'He is sick.' And Saul sendeth the messengers to see David, saying, 'Bring him up in the bed unto me,' -- to put him to death.read more.
And the messengers come in, and lo, the teraphim are on the bed, and the mattress of goats' hair, for his pillows.

Mark 2:4

and not being able to come near to him because of the multitude, they uncovered the roof where he was, and, having broken it up, they let down the couch on which the paralytic was lying,

Luke 5:19

and not having found by what way they may bring him in because of the multitude, having gone up on the house-top, through the tiles they let him down, with the little couch, into the midst before Jesus,

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Beds » Used for » Reclining on at meals

1 Samuel 28:23-25

And he refuseth, and saith, 'I do not eat;' and his servants urge on him, and also the woman, and he hearkeneth to their voice, and riseth from the earth, and sitteth on the bed. And the woman hath a calf of the stall in the house, and she hasteth and slaughtereth it, and taketh flour, and kneadeth, and baketh it unleavened things, and bringeth nigh before Saul, and before his servants, and they eat, and rise, and go on, during that night.

Amos 6:4-6

Who are lying down on beds of ivory, And are spread out on their couches, And are eating lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the stall, Who are taking part according to the psaltery, Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music; Who are drinking with bowls of wine, And with chief perfumes anoint themselves, And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph.

Luke 7:36-38

And a certain one of the Pharisees was asking him that he might eat with him, and having gone into the house of the Pharisee he reclined (at meat), and lo, a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having known that he reclineth (at meat) in the house of the Pharisee, having provided an alabaster box of ointment, and having stood behind, beside his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with the tears, and with the hairs of her head she was wiping, and was kissing his feet, and was anointing with the ointment.

Beds » Saints meditate and praise God while on

Psalm 149:5

Exult do saints in honour, They sing aloud on their beds.

Song of Songs 3:1

On my couch by night, I sought him whom my soul hath loved; I sought him, and I found him not!

Beds » Not used in affliction

2 Samuel 13:31

and the king riseth, and rendeth his garments, and lieth on the earth, and all his servants are standing by with rent garments.

Beds » Supplied with pillows

1 Samuel 26:7

And David cometh -- and Abishai -- unto the people by night, and lo, Saul is lying sleeping in the path, and his spear struck into the earth at his pillow, and abner and the people are lying round about him.

1 Samuel 19:13

and Michal taketh the teraphim, and layeth on the bed, and the mattress of goats' hair she hath put for his pillows, and covereth with a garment.

Beds » Often perfumed

Proverbs 7:17

I sprinkled my bed -- myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Ezekiel 23:41

And thou hast sat on a couch of honour, And a table arrayed before it, And My perfume and My oil placed on it.

Beds » Used for » Reclining on by day

2 Samuel 11:2

and it cometh to pass, at evening-time, that David riseth from off his couch, and walketh up and down on the roof of the king's house, and seeth from the roof a woman bathing, and the woman is of very good appearance,

2 Samuel 4:5

And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, go, and come in at the heat of the day unto the house of Ish-Bosheth, and he is lying down -- the lying down of noon;

Beds » Antiquity of

Genesis 47:31

and he saith, 'Swear to me;' and he sweareth to him, and Israel boweth himself on the head of the bed.

Exodus 8:3

and the River hath teemed with frogs, and they have gone up and gone into thy house, and into the inner-chamber of thy bed, and on thy couch, and into the house of thy servants, and among thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs;

Beds » Persons sometimes took to, in grief

1 Kings 21:4

and Ahab cometh in unto his house, sulky and wroth, because of the word that Naboth the Jezreelite hath spoken unto him when he saith, 'I do not give to thee the inheritance of my fathers,' and he lieth down on his bed, and turneth round his face, and hath not eaten bread.

Hosea 7:14

And have not cried unto Me with their heart, but howl on their beds, For corn and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn aside against Me.

Beds » Made of » Wood

Song of Songs 3:7-8

Lo, his couch, that is Solomon's, Sixty mighty ones are around it, Of the mighty of Israel, All of them holding sword, taught of battle, Each his sword by his thigh, for fear at night.

Beds » The wicked devise mischief while on

Psalm 36:4

Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'

Beds » Used for » Sleeping on

Job 33:15

In a dream -- a vision of night, In the falling of deep sleep on men, In slumberings on a bed.

Luke 11:7

and he from within answering may say, Do not give me trouble, already the door hath been shut, and my children with me are in the bed, I am not able, having risen, to give to thee.

Beds » Couches or divans used as

Job 7:13

When I said, 'My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.

Psalm 6:6

I have been weary with my sighing, I meditate through all the night on my bed, With my tear my couch I waste.

Beds » Made of » Iron

Deuteronomy 3:11

for only Og king of Bashan had been left of the remnant of the Rephaim; lo, his bedstead is a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the sons of Ammon? nine cubits its length, and four cubits its breadth, by the cubit of a man.

Beds » Of the poor covered with their upper garment

Exodus 22:26-27

if thou dost at all take in pledge the garment of thy neighbour, during the going in of the sun thou dost return it to him: for it alone is his covering, it is his garment for his skin; wherein doth he lie down? and it hath come to pass, when he doth cry unto Me, that I have heard, for I am gracious.

Beds » A small pallet or mattress used as

1 Samuel 19:15

And Saul sendeth the messengers to see David, saying, 'Bring him up in the bed unto me,' -- to put him to death.

Beds » Subject to ceremonial defilement

Leviticus 15:4

'All the bed on which he lieth who hath the issue is unclean, and all the vessel on which he sitteth is unclean;

Beds » Of the poor often sold for debt

Proverbs 22:27

If thou hast nothing to pay, Why doth he take thy bed from under thee?

Beds » The slothful too fond of

Proverbs 26:14

The door turneth round on its hinge, And the slothful on his bed.

Beds » Covered with tapestry and linen

Proverbs 7:16

With ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works -- cotton of Egypt.

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

Isaiah 28:20

For shorter hath been the bed Than to stretch one's self out in, And the covering hath been narrower Than to wrap one's self up in.

Beds » Considered necessary

2 Kings 4:10

let us make, I pray thee, a little upper chamber of the wall, and we set for him there a bed, and a table, and a high seat, and a candlestick; and it hath been, in his coming in unto us, he doth turn aside thither.'

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

Isaiah 57:7

On a mountain, high and exalted, Thou hast set thy couch, Also thither thou hast gone up to make a 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

white linen, white cotton, and blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple on rings of silver, and pillars of marble, couches of gold, and of silver, on a pavement of smaragdus, and white marble, and mother-of-pearl, and black marble --

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

Job 17:13

If I wait -- Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.

Beds » Made of » Ivory

Amos 6:4

Who are lying down on beds of ivory, And are spread out on their couches, And are eating lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the stall,

Beds » Purification of

Mark 7:4

and, coming from the market-place, if they do not baptize themselves, they do not eat; and many other things there are that they received to hold, baptisms of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, and couches.

Ivory » Other articles made of » Beds

Amos 6:4

Who are lying down on beds of ivory, And are spread out on their couches, And are eating lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the stall,

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