Ezekiel 23:41

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“You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,”

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BSBPD

“You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“and sit upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou didst set mine incense and mine oil.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And thou hast sat on a couch of honour, And a table arrayed before it, And My perfume and My oil placed on it.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 23:41 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Esther 1:6Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and other costly stones.
  2. Proverbs 7:16I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.
  3. Isaiah 57:7On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.
  4. Isaiah 65:11But you who forsake the LORD, who forget My holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
  5. Jeremiah 44:17Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.
  6. Ezekiel 6:13Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
  7. Ezekiel 16:18You took your embroidered garments to cover them, and you set My oil and incense before them.
  8. Ezekiel 44:16They alone shall enter My sanctuary and draw near to My table to minister before Me. They will keep My charge.
  9. Hosea 2:8For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold— which they crafted for Baal.
  10. Amos 2:8They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.
  11. Amos 6:4You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.
  12. Malachi 1:7By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.

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