Beds
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon....
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The Jewish bed consisted of the mattress, a mere mat, or one
or more quilts; the covering, a finer quilt, or sometimes the
outer garment worn by day, 1Sa 19:13 which the law provided
should not be kept in pledge after sunset, that the poor man
might not lack his needful covering, De 24:13 the pillow, 1Sa
19:13 probably formed of sheep's fleece...
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(Heb. mittah), for rest at night (Ex. 8:3; 1 Sam. 19:13, 15,
16,
etc.); during sickness (Gen. 47:31; 48:2; 49:33,
etc.); as a
sofa for rest (1 Sam. 28:23; Amos 3:12). Another
Hebrew word
(er'es) so rendered denotes a canopied bed, or a bed
with
curtains (Deut. 3:11; Ps. 132:3), for sickness (Ps.
6:6; 41:3).
In the New Testament it denotes...
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The outer garment worn by day sufficed the poor for
bedstead, bed beneath, and covering above, whence it was
forbidden to keep it in pledge after sunset, lest the poor
man should be without covering (Deuteronomy 24:13). The
bolster was often of platted goat's hair (1 Samuel 19:13). A
quilt to wrap one's self in is the bed meant in the miracle ...
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Behold his bed, which [is] Solomon's; threescore valiant men
[are] about it, of the valiant of Israel....
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For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants;
behold, his bedstead [was] a bedstead of iron; [is] it not in
Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits [was] the length
thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of
a man....
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That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their
couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves
out of the midst of the stall;...
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[Where were] white, green, and blue, [hangings], fastened with
cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of
marble: the beds [were of] gold and silver, upon a pavement of
red, and blue, and white, and black, marble....
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If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed
from under thee?...
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For the very poor of the East, in ancient times as now, the
"bed" was and is, as a rule, the bare ground; and the
bedclothes, the gown, simlah, or "outer garment," worn
during the day ("For that is his only covering, it is his
garment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep?" (Ex 22:27);
compare Dt 24:13, "Thou shalt surely restore to him th...
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