Ezekiel 23:41

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.

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  • Esth 1:6 : 6 There were fair hangings of white and green and blue, fixed with cords of purple and the best linen to silver rings and pillars of polished stone: the seats were of gold and silver on a floor of red and white and yellow and black stone.
  • Isa 65:11 : 11 But as for you who have given up the Lord, who have no care for my holy mountain, who get ready a table for Chance, and make offerings of mixed wine to Fate;
  • Jer 44:17 : 17 But we will certainly do every word which has gone out of our mouths, burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her as we did, we and our fathers and our kings and our rulers, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had food enough and did well and saw no evil.
  • Ezek 44:16 : 16 They are to come into my holy place and they are to come near to my table, to do my work and have the care of my house.
  • Amos 6:4 : 4 Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house;
  • Isa 57:7 : 7 You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering.
  • Mal 1:7 : 7 You put unclean bread on my altar. And you say, How have we made it unclean? By your saying, The table of the Lord is of no value.
  • Hos 2:8-9 : 8 For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal. 9 So I will take away again my grain in its time and my wine, and I will take away my wool and my linen with which her body might have been covered.
  • Amos 2:8 : 8 By every altar they are stretched on clothing taken from those who are in their debt, drinking in the house of their god the wine of those who have made payment for wrongdoing.
  • Ezek 16:18-19 : 18 And you took your robes of needlework for their clothing, and put my oil and my perfume before them. 19 And my bread which I gave you, the best meal and oil and honey which I gave you for your food, you put it before them for a sweet smell, says the Lord.
  • Prov 7:16-17 : 16 My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt; 17 I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.

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  • 40 And she even sent for men to come from far away, to whom a servant was sent, and they came: for whom she was washing her body and painting her eyes and making herself fair with ornaments.

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    11 And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck.

    12 And I put a ring in your nose and ear-rings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

    13 So you were made beautiful with gold and silver; and your clothing was of the best linen and silk and needlework; your food was the best meal and honey and oil: and you were very beautiful.

    14 You were so beautiful that the story of you went out into all nations; you were completely beautiful because of my glory which I had put on you, says the Lord.

    15 But you put your faith in the fact that you were beautiful, acting like a loose woman because you were widely talked of, and offering your cheap love to everyone who went by, whoever it might be.

    16 And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear.

    17 And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself male images, acting like a loose woman with them;

    18 And you took your robes of needlework for their clothing, and put my oil and my perfume before them.

    19 And my bread which I gave you, the best meal and oil and honey which I gave you for your food, you put it before them for a sweet smell, says the Lord.

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    42 ... and they put jewels on her hands and beautiful crowns on her head.

    43 Then I said ... now she will go on with her loose ways.

  • Isa 57:7-9
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    7 You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering.

    8 And on the back of the doors and on the pillars you have put your sign: for you have been false to me with another; you have made your bed wide, and made an agreement with them; you had a desire for their bed where you saw it

    9 And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.

  • Prov 7:16-17
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    16 My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;

    17 I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.

  • Ps 45:8-9
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    8 Your robes are full of the smell of all sorts of perfumes and spices; music from the king's ivory houses has made you glad.

    9 Kings' daughters are among your noble women: on your right is the queen in gold of Ophir.

  • Song 1:11-12
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    11 We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.

    12 While the king is seated at his table, my spices send out their perfume.

  • 4 And put the table inside, placing all the things on it in order; and put in the support for the lights, and let its lights be burning.

  • 4 Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house;

  • 5 You make ready a table for me in front of my haters: you put oil on my head; my cup is overflowing.

  • 27 And on the table and all its vessels, and on the support for the lights, with its vessels, and on the altar for burning spices,

  • 8 And the table with its vessels, and the holy light-support with all its vessels, and the altar for the burning of spices,

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    24 That you made for yourself an arched room in every open place.

    25 You put up your high places at the top of every street, and made the grace of your form a disgusting thing, opening your feet to everyone who went by, increasing your loose ways.

  • 31 For you have made your arched room at the top of every street, and your high place in every open place; though you were not like a loose woman in getting together your payment.

  • 15 About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?

  • 17 And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them.

  • 30 And on the table at all times you are to keep my holy bread.

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    14 And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in bright red,

    15 With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea.

  • 6 Oil for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling oil, sweet perfumes for burning;

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    37 The support for the lights, with the vessels for the lights to be put in their places on it, and all its vessels, and the oil for the lights;

    38 And the gold altar, and the holy oil, and the sweet perfume for burning, and the curtain for the doorway of the tent;

  • 30 And you, when you are made waste, what will you do? Though you are clothed in red, though you make yourself beautiful with ornaments of gold, though you make your eyes wide with paint, it is for nothing that you make yourself fair; your lovers have no more desire for you, they have designs on your life.

  • 11 So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.

  • 17 Your heart was lifted up because you were beautiful, you made your wisdom evil through your sin: I have sent you down, even to the earth; I have made you low before kings, so that they may see you.

  • 2 Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

  • 6 Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?

  • 5 They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.

  • 8 So now take note of this, you who are given up to pleasure, living without fear of evil, saying in your heart, I am, and there is no one like me; I will never be a widow, or have my children taken from me.

  • 18 Then the king made a great ivory seat, plated with the best gold.

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    14 And the support for the lights, with its vessels and its lights and the oil for the light;

    15 And the altar for burning spices, with its rods, and the holy oil and the sweet perfume, and the curtain for the door, at the door of the House;

  • 41 And they will have you burned with fire, sending punishments on you before the eyes of great numbers of women; and I will put an end to your loose ways, and you will no longer give payment.

  • 30 They will do these things to you because you have been untrue to me, and have gone after the nations, and have become unclean with their images.

  • 10 See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.