'Bed' in the Bible
And one told Jacob and said, Behold, thy son Joseph is coming to thee. And Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
Impetuous as the waters, thou shalt have no pre-eminence; Because thou wentest up to thy father's couch: Then defiledst thou it: he went up to my bed.
And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered his feet into the bed, and expired, and was gathered to his peoples.
And the river shall swarm with frogs, and they shall go up and come into thy house, and into thy bedroom, and upon thy bed, and into the house of thy bondmen, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into thy kneading-troughs.
And if men dispute, and one strike the other with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but take to his bed,
Every bed whereon he lieth that hath the flux shall be unclean; and every object on which he sitteth shall be unclean.
And whoever toucheth his bed shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.
And whoever toucheth her bed shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.
And if it be on the bed, or on anything whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
And if a man lie with her at all, and the uncleanness of her separation come upon him, he shall be unclean seven days; and every bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean.
Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her flux shall be unto her as the bed of her separation; and every object on which she sitteth shall be unclean, according to the uncleanness of her separation.
And Michal took the image, and laid it in the bed, and put the net of goats' hair at its head, and covered it with the coverlet.
And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may put him to death.
And the messengers came in, and behold, the image was in the bed, and the net of goats' hair at its head.
But he refused and said, I will not eat. Then his servants, and the woman also, compelled him, and he hearkened to their voice; and he arose from the earth and sat on the bed.
They came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him; and they took his head, and went by the way of the plain all night.
how much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? and should I not now demand his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
And Jonadab said to him, Lay thee down on thy bed and feign thyself sick; and when thy father comes to see thee, say to him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me food, and dress the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.
And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, Thy God make the name of Solomon more excellent than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne! And the king bowed himself on the bed.
And he said to her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the upper chamber where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.
And Ahab came into his house sullen and vexed because of the word that Naboth the Jizreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he lay down on his bed, and turned away his face, and ate no bread.
Now therefore thus saith Jehovah: Thou shalt not come down from the bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt certainly die. And Elijah departed.
And they said unto him, A man came up to meet us, and said to us, Go, return to the king that sent you and say to him, Thus saith Jehovah: Is it because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt certainly die.
And he said to him, Thus saith Jehovah: Forasmuch as thou hast sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt certainly die.
Let us make, I pray thee, a small upper chamber with walls, and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a seat, and a lampstand; and it shall be when he cometh to us, he shall turn in thither.
And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.
And when Elisha came into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.
And the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, inasmuch as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; but the genealogy is not registered according to the birthright,
And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had excavated for himself in the city of David, and laid him in a bed filled with spices, a mixture of divers kinds prepared by the perfumer's art; and they made a very great burning for him.
And when they had departed from him (for they left him in great diseases), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the sepulchres of the kings.
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and with constant strife in his bones;
Be moved with anger, and sin not; meditate in your own hearts upon your bed, and be still. Selah.
I am wearied with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I dissolve my couch with my tears.
He deviseth wickedness up on his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good: he abhorreth not evil.
Jehovah will sustain him upon the bed of languishing: thou turnest all his bed in his sickness.
When I remember thee upon my bed, I meditate on thee in the night-watches:
I will not come into the tent of my house, I will not go up to the couch of my bed;
If I ascend up into the heavens thou art there; or if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there;
I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;
if thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
As the door turneth upon its hinges, so the sluggard upon his bed.
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant; Also our bed is green.
On my bed, in the nights, I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
His cheeks are as a bed of spices, raised beds of sweet plants; His lips lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
For the bed is too short to stretch oneself on, and the covering too narrow when he would wrap himself in it.
Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither didst thou go up to offer sacrifice.
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for apart from me, thou hast uncovered thyself, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and hast made agreement with them; thou lovedst their bed, thou sawest their nakedness.
And the children of Babylon came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their fornication; she too defiled herself with them, and her soul was alienated from them.
and satest upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hadst set mine incense and mine oil.
They have set him a bed in the midst of the slain, with all his multitude: their graves are round about him, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though their terror was caused in the land of the living; and they have borne their confusion with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that are slain.
but there is a God in the heavens, who revealeth secrets, and maketh known to king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be at the end of days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed are these:
as for thee, O king, thy thoughts arose upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter; and he that revealeth secrets hath made known to thee what shall come to pass.
I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
Thus were the visions of my head upon my bed: I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and its height was great.
I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from the heavens;
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream; he told the sum of the matters.
Thus saith Jehovah: Like as the shepherd rescueth out of the jaw of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be rescued that sit in Samaria in the corner of a couch, and upon the damask of a bed.