57 Bible Verses About Incense
Bible verses about Incense
Consider the sacred smoke ascending, a fragrant symbol woven throughout scripture. To explore the verses regarding incense is not merely to catalogue ritual acts, but to uncover layers of meaning concerning adoration, intercession, and the journey of the soul towards the divine. These passages illuminate how earthly offerings can prefigure heavenly communion, revealing truths vital for our own spiritual ascent and the life of prayer. Delve into these scriptural references to perceive the profound significance God attaches to this sacred element in His presence and worship.
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Exodus 30:1 (KJV)
And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it.
Incense Bible Verses: A Focused Scriptural Journey
They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.
And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.
And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:
And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:
And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense,
So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth–el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
One spoon of ten shekels of gold, full of incense:
Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.
Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.
And Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it.
And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,
Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the Lord.
The golden spoons were twelve, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was an hundred and twenty shekels.
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the Lord unto Beth–el: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.
And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.
And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.
And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.
And the table and his furniture, and the pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar of incense,
And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.
To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the Lord; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the Lord said to him by the hand of Moses.
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the Lord; the plague is begun.
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the Lord every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer.
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof.
And he cried against the altar in the word of the Lord, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the Lord; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men’s bones shall be burnt upon thee.
And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.
Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,
And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.
And put fire therein, and put incense in them before the Lord to morrow: and it shall be that the man whom the Lord doth choose, he shall be holy: ye take too much upon you, ye sons of Levi.
And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
And three times in a year did Solomon offer burnt offerings and peace offerings upon the altar which he built unto the Lord, and he burnt incense upon the altar that was before the Lord. So he finished the house.
And he shall bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord:
One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations.
And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,
And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the Lord commanded Moses.
And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron.
And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people.
Let us consider, then, the profound echoes found within these scriptural references to incense. It is not merely a fragrant substance; it is a sign, an offering, a breath made visible ascending towards the Divine. Whether signifying the presence of God, the ascent of fervent prayer, or the hallowed nature of sacred space, incense speaks to the tangible connection between the earthly and the celestial. It reminds us that our devotion, our very being, is meant to rise, purified and accepted, into the eternal contemplation of the Holy. May these verses prompt us to lift our hearts and minds with similar intentionality, offering our lives as a pleasing aroma before the Almighty.