20 Verses About Perfume from 11 Books

1_Samuel 8:13

He will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

2_Chronicles 16:14

They buried him in his own tombs, which he had dug out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds [of spices] prepared by the perfumers' art: and they made a very great burning for him.

Ecclesiastes 7:1

A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one's birth.

Ecclesiastes 10:1

Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.

Epistle_of_Jeremiah 6:43

The women also, sitting in the ways with cords around themselves, burn bran for perfume; but if any of them, drawn by someone who passes by, should lie with him, she reproaches her peer, because she was not thought as worthy as herself, nor her cord broken.

Exodus 30:25

You shall make it a holy anointing oil, a perfume compounded after the art of the perfumer: it shall be a holy anointing oil.

Exodus 30:35

and you shall make incense of it, a perfume after the art of the perfumer, seasoned with salt, pure and holy:



Exodus 37:29

He made the holy anointing oil and the pure incense of sweet spices, after the art of the perfumer.

Isaiah 3:20

the headdresses, the ankle chains, the sashes, the perfume bottles, the charms,

Isaiah 57:9

You went to the king with oil, and did increase your perfumes, and did send your ambassadors far off, and debased yourself even to Sheol.

Nehemiah 3:8

Next to him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, goldsmiths. Next to him repaired Hananiah one of the perfumers, and they fortified Jerusalem even to the broad wall.

Proverbs 7:17

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Proverbs 27:9

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man's friend.

Revelation 18:13

and cinnamon, incense, perfume, frankincense, wine, olive oil, fine flour, wheat, sheep, horses, chariots, and people's bodies and souls.



Song_of_Solomon 1:12

While the king sat at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.

Song_of_Solomon 3:6

Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?

Song_of_Solomon 4:10

How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine! The fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices!

Song_of_Solomon 5:13

His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

Tobias 6:16

And when you come into the marriage room, you shall take the ashes of perfume, and shall lay upon them some of the heart and liver of the fish, and shall make a smoke with it.

Tobias 8:2

And as he went, he remembered the words of Raphael. And he took the ashes of the perfumes, and put the heart and the liver of the fish on them, and made a smoke with them.





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