'Bed' in the Bible
Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, the whole population, surrounded the house.
Although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her.
And Jacob said, “Swear to me.” So Joseph swore to him. Then Israel bowed in thanks at the head of his bed.
When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed.
Turbulent as water, you will no longer excel,because you got into your father’s bedand you defiled it—he got into my bed.
When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and died. He was gathered to his people.
The Nile will swarm with frogs; they will come up and go into your palace, into your bedroom and on your bed, into the houses of your officials and your people, and into your ovens and kneading bowls.
“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or his fist, and the injured man does not die but is confined to bed,
Any bed the man with the discharge lies on will be unclean, and any furniture he sits on will be unclean.
Anyone who touches his bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.
Everyone who touches her bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.
If discharge is on the bed or the furniture she was sitting on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening.
If a man sleeps with her, and blood from her menstruation gets on him, he will be unclean for seven days, and every bed he lies on will become unclean.
Any bed she lies on during the days of her discharge will be like her bed during menstrual impurity; any furniture she sits on will be unclean as in her menstrual period.
(Only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed was made of iron. Isn’t it in Rabbah of the Ammonites? It is 13 feet six inches long and six feet wide by a standard measure.)
“A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not violate his father’s marriage bed.
‘The one who sleeps with his father’s wife is cursed, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went to bed with her.
But Samson stayed in bed until midnight when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate along with the two gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.
Then Michal took the household idol and put it on the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
Saul sent the agents back to see David and said, “Bring him on his bed so I can kill him.”
When the messengers arrived, to their surprise, the household idol was on the bed with some goat hair on its head.
He refused, saying, “I won’t eat,” but when his servants and the woman urged him, he listened to them. He got up off the ground and sat on the bed.
They had entered the house while Ish-bosheth was lying on his bed in his bedroom and stabbed and killed him. Then they beheaded him, took his head, and traveled by way of the Arabah all night.
How much more when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house on his own bed! So now, should I not require his blood from your hands and wipe you off the earth?”
One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
Jonadab said to him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you’re sick. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare food in my presence so I can watch and eat from her hand.’”
“The king’s servants have also gone to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon more well known than your name, and may He make his throne greater than your throne.’ Then the king bowed in worship on his bed.
But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, brought him up to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.
So Ahab went to his palace resentful and angry because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had told him. He had said, “I will not give you my fathers’ inheritance.” He lay down on his bed, turned his face away, and didn’t eat any food.
so let’s make a small room upstairs and put a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp there for him. Whenever he comes, he can stay there.”
Then she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut him in, and left.
When Elisha got to the house, he discovered the boy lying dead on his bed.
These were the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. He was the firstborn, but his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, because Reuben defiled his father’s bed. He is not listed in the genealogy according to birthright.
When the Arameans saw that Joash had many wounds, they left him. His servants conspired against him, and killed him on his bed, because he had shed the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.
When I say: My bed will comfort me,and my couch will ease my complaint,
A person may be disciplined on his bed with painand constant distress in his bones,
Be angry and do not sin;on your bed, reflect in your heart and be still.Selah
I am weary from my groaning;with my tears I dampen my pillowand drench my bed every night.
Even on his bed he makes malicious plans.He sets himself on a path that is not goodand does not reject evil.
The Lord will sustain him on his sickbed;You will heal him on the bed where he lies.
When I think of You as I lie on my bed,I meditate on You during the night watches
If I go up to heaven, You are there;if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
How long will you stay in bed, you slacker?When will you get up from your sleep?
I’ve spread coverings on my bed—richly colored linen from Egypt.
I’ve perfumed my bedwith myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
If you have no money to pay,even your bed will be taken from under you.
A door turns on its hinges,and a slacker, on his bed.
She makes her own bed coverings;her clothing is fine linen and purple.
W How handsome you are, my love.How delightful!Our bed is lush with foliage;
In my bed at nightI sought the one I love;I sought him, but did not find him.
Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on,and its cover too small to wrap up in.
Wasn’t it You who dried up the sea,the waters of the great deep,who made the sea-bed into a roadfor the redeemed to pass over?
You have placed your bedon a high and lofty mountain;you also went up there to offer sacrifice.
You have set up your memorialbehind the door and doorpost.For away from Me, you stripped,went up, and made your bed wide,and you have made a bargain for yourself with them.You have loved their bed;you have gazed on their genitals.
But there was another great eaglewith great wings and thick plumage.And this vine bent its roots toward him!It stretched out its branches to himfrom its planting bed,so that he might water it.
Even though it is planted, will it flourish?Won’t it completely witherwhen the east wind strikes it?It will wither on the bed where it sprouted.”
Then the Babylonians came to her, to the bed of love, and defiled her with their lust. But after she was defiled by them, she turned away from them in disgust.
But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has let King Nebuchadnezzar know what will happen in the last days. Your dream and the visions that came into your mind as you lay in bed were these:
Your Majesty, while you were in your bed, thoughts came to your mind about what will happen in the future. The revealer of mysteries has let you know what will happen.
I had a dream, and it frightened me; while in my bed, the images and visions in my mind alarmed me.
In the visions of my mind as I was lying in bed, I saw this:There was a tree in the middle of the earth,and its height was great.
“As I was lying in my bed, I also saw in the visions of my mind an observer, a holy one, coming down from heaven.
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream with visions in his mind as he was lying in his bed. He wrote down the dream, and here is the summary of his account.
The Lord says:As the shepherd snatches two legsor a piece of an earfrom the lion’s mouth,so the Israelites who live in Samariawill be rescuedwith only the corner of a bedor the cushion of a couch.
When Jesus went into Peter’s house, He saw his mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever.
Simon’s mother-in-law was lying in bed with a fever, and they told Him about her at once.
He also said to them, “Is a lamp brought in to be put under a basket or under a bed? Isn’t it to be put on a lampstand?
When she went back to her home, she found her child lying on the bed, and the demon was gone.
“No one, after lighting a lamp, covers it with a basket or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand so that those who come in may see its light.
Then he will answer from inside and say, ‘Don’t bother me! The door is already locked, and my children and I have gone to bed. I can’t get up to give you anything.’
I tell you, on that night two will be in one bed: One will be taken and the other will be left.
Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed,” and immediately he got up.
Publius’s father was in bed suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went to him, and praying and laying his hands on him, he healed him.
Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.