'Couch' in the Bible
Unstable as water, you shall not excel [any longer], for you went up upon the bed of your father, then defiled [it]. You went up upon my couch!
When they had come [into] the house, he [was] lying on his couch {in his bedchamber}, and they attacked him and killed him. Then they {beheaded him}, and they took his head and went on the way of the Arabah all night.
The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but when he defiled the couch of his father, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, so that he was not enrolled in the genealogy as the firstborn,
And the king returned from the palace garden to the {banquet hall}, [where] Haman [was] lying prostrate on the couch that Esther [was] on, and the king said, "Will he also molest the queen with me in the house?" As the words went from the king's mouth they covered Haman's face.
When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,'
If I hope [for] Sheol [as] my house, [if] I spread my couch in the darkness,
I am weary with my groaning; {I flood} my bed every night. With my tears {I drench} my couch.
"I will not enter into the tent of my house, I will not go up to the couch of my bed,
[With] coverings I have adorned my couch, spreads of the linen of Egypt;
Look! You [are] beautiful, my beloved, truly pleasant. Truly our couch [is] {verdant};
Look! [It is] Solomon's {portable couch}! Sixty mighty men surround {it}, the mighty men of Israel.
And you sat on a magnificent couch and a table prepared {before her}, and my incense and my olive oil you put on her.
Thus says Yahweh, "Just as the shepherd rescues two legs or a piece of an ear from the mouth of the lion, so shall the {people} of Israel who dwell in Samaria, with the corner of a couch and the damask of a bed."