Ezekiel 23:41
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New International Version (©2011)
You sat on an elegant couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed the incense and olive oil that belonged to me.

New Living Translation (©2007)
You sat with them on a beautifully embroidered couch and put my incense and my special oil on a table that was spread before you.

English Standard Version (©2001)
You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and you sat on a splendid couch with a table arranged before it on which you had set My incense and My oil.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You sat on a luxurious couch with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and oil.

International Standard Version (©2012)
then sat down on an elegant bed. A table was arranged in front of it, on which you set out my incense and oil.

NET Bible (©2006)
You sat on a magnificent couch, with a table arranged in front of it where you placed my incense and my olive oil.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They sat on their fine couches with tables in front of them. They put my incense and my olive oil on their tables.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And sat upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, upon which you have set my incense and my oil.

American King James Version
And sat on a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon you have set my incense and my oil.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou sattest on a very fine bed, and a table was decked before thee: whereupon thou didst set my incense, and my ointment.

Darby Bible Translation
and satest upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hadst set mine incense and mine oil.

English Revised Version
and satest upon a stately bed. with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou didst set mine incense and mine oil.

Webster's Bible Translation
And sattest upon a stately bed and a table prepared before it, upon which thou hast set my incense and my oil.

World English Bible
and sit on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil.

Young's Literal Translation
And thou hast sat on a couch of honour, And a table arrayed before it, And My perfume and My oil placed on it.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

23:1-49 A history of the apostacy of God's people from him, and the aggravation thereof. - In this parable, Samaria and Israel bear the name Aholah, her own tabernacle; because the places of worship those kingdoms had, were of their own devising. Jerusalem and Judah bear the name of Aholibah, my tabernacle is in her, because their temple was the place which God himself had chosen, to put his name there. The language and figures are according to those times. Will not such humbling representations of nature keep open perpetual repentance and sorrow in the soul, hiding pride from our eyes, and taking us from self-righteousness? Will it not also prompt the soul to look to God continually for grace, that by his Holy Spirit we may mortify the deeds of the body, and live in holy conversation and godliness?

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And satest upon a stately bed,.... Or honourable (g), a bed of state: either a throne, a royal seat under a canopy, on which the king of Judah sat to receive foreign ambassadors; or a stately bed at a feast, made for the entertainment of them; it being usual in the eastern nations to sit on beds at eating, to which the next clause agrees. The allusion is to a harlot sitting on a bed decked out by her to allure men to lie with her; see Proverbs 7:16,

and a table prepared before it; before the bed, furnished with the richest provisions to treat the ambassadors with; or this may design an altar built for them to offer on it sacrifices to their idols, according to the customs of their countries:

whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil; which were the gifts of God to this people, and which they should have used in his service; but with these they treated the ministers of Heathen princes; scenting the room where they were entertained with incense, and anointing their heads and feet with oil, for their pleasure and refreshment; or they offered these on the altars of the idols to them.

(g) "honorato", Junius and Tremellius, Polanus, Coeccius, Starckius.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

41. bed—divan. While men reclined at table, women sat, as it seemed indelicate for them to lie down (Am 6:4) [Grotius].

table—that is, the idolatrous altar.

mine incense—which I had given thee, and which thou oughtest to have offered to Me (Eze 16:18, 19; Ho 2:8; compare Pr 7:17).

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Judgment on Both Sisters
…40And furthermore, that you have sent for men to come from far, to whom a messenger was sent; and, see, they came: for whom you did wash yourself, painted your eyes, and decked yourself with ornaments, 41And sat on a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon you have set my incense and my oil. 42And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets on their hands, and beautiful crowns on their heads. …

1 Samuel 28:23 He refused and said, "I will not eat." But his men joined the woman in urging him, and he listened to them. He got up from the ground and sat on the couch.
Esther 1:6 The garden had hangings of white and blue linen, fastened with cords of white linen and purple material to silver rings on marble pillars. There were couches of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl and other costly stones.
Isaiah 57:7 You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill; there you went up to offer your sacrifices.
Isaiah 65:11 "But as for you who forsake the LORD and forget my holy mountain, who spread a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
Jeremiah 44:17 We will certainly do everything we said we would: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our ancestors, our kings and our officials did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and were well off and suffered no harm.
Ezekiel 41:22 There was a wooden altar three cubits high and two cubits square; its corners, its base and its sides were of wood. The man said to me, "This is the table that is before the LORD."
Ezekiel 44:16 They alone are to enter my sanctuary; they alone are to come near my table to minister before me and serve me as guards.
Hosea 2:8 She has not acknowledged that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine and oil, who lavished on her the silver and gold-- which they used for Baal.
Amos 6:4 You lie on beds adorned with ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambs and fattened calves.