'Couch' in the Bible
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 it came to pass at evening time that David arose from off his couch, and walked upon the roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful;
And David invited him, and he ate and drank before him; and he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but did not go down to his house.
And the king returned out of the palace garden into the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman was fallen upon the couch on which Esther was. And the king said, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? The word went forth out of the king's mouth, and they covered Haman's face.
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
I am wearied with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I dissolve my couch with my tears.
I will not come into the tent of my house, I will not go up to the couch of my bed;
I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Behold his couch, Solomon's own: Threescore mighty men are about it, Of the mighty of Israel.
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.