Bed

A household item of furniture set aside for sleep, rest and quietness.

Various kinds of bed

Deuteronomy 3:11; Amos 6:4; Acts 9:34 See also Matthew 9:6 parallels Mark 2:11–12, Luke 5:18–19; Mark 2:4 parallels Matthew 9:2, Luke 5:24; Acts 5:15

(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.

“Aeneas,” Peter said to him, “Jesus Christ heals you! Get up and put away your mat.” Immediately Aeneas got up,

The bed as a place of rest

2 Kings 4:10 See also 1 Samuel 3:2; 2 Samuel 4:5, 2 Samuel 4:7, 2 Samuel 11:13; Esther 7:8; Job 33:15; Psalm 139:8; Proverbs 7:16–17, Proverbs 26:14; Isaiah 28:20 Beds were not always comfortable; Daniel 4:5, Daniel 7:1; Luke 11:7

Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.”

The bed as a place of recuperation

Psalm 41:3; Acts 28:8 See also Genesis 48:2; Exodus 21:18; 2 Samuel 13:5; 1 Kings 17:19; 2 Kings 1:4, 2 Kings 4:21; Job 7:13–14, Job 33:19; Daniel 8:27; Matthew 8:14 parallel Mark 1:30; Revelation 2:22

The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.

The father of Publius was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him, and after praying and placing his hands on him, he healed the man.

The bed as a place in which to be alone

Psalm 4:4; Micah 2:1 See also 1 Kings 21:4; 2 Kings 6:12, 2 Kings 11:2; Psalm 6:6, Psalm 63:6; Ecclesiastes 10:20

Be angry, yet do not sin; on your bed, search your heart and be still. Selah

Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

The bed representing sexual union

Deuteronomy 22:30; Hebrews 13:4 See also Genesis 39:7; Deuteronomy 27:20; 2 Samuel 13:11; 1 Chronicles 5:1; Ezekiel 22:10, Ezekiel 23:17

A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Unusual places used as beds

Genesis 28:11; 1 Kings 19:5; Jonah 1:5; Mark 4:38

Bed associated with a description of apostasy

Isaiah 57:7

On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.