Ezekiel 23:41

Bishop's Bible

Thou sattest vpon a stately bed, and a table spread before it, whervpon thou hast set mine incense and mine sylc.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
You sat on a fine bed with a table set before it. You put my incense and my oil on this table.

New Living Translation
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.

New American Standard Bible
and you sat on a splendid couch with a table arranged in front of it on which you had set My incense and My oil.

New Century Version
They sat on a fine bed with a table set before it, on which they put my incense and my oil.

New English Translation
You sat on a magnificent couch, with a table arranged in front of it where you placed my incense and my olive oil.

Update Bible Version
and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my 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.

Amplified Bible
and you sat on a splendid couch with a table arranged before it on which you had set My incense and My oil.

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

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou satist in a ful fair bed, and a boord was ourned bifor thee; thou settidist myn encense and myn oynement on it.

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

Berean Standard Bible
You sat on a couch of luxury with a table spread before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil.

Contemporary English Version
They sat on a fancy couch, and in front of them was a table for the olive oil and incense that had belonged to me.

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

Bible in Basic English
And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.

Complete Jewish Bible
and sat on a sumptuous bed, with a table arranged before it, on which you put my incense and my olive oil.

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

JPS Old Testament (1917)
and sattest upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou didst set Mine incense and Mine oil.

King James Version (1611)
And satest vpon a stately bedde, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oile.

New Life Bible
You sat on a beautiful seat with a table made ready in front of it on which you had set My special perfume and My oil.

New Revised Standard
you sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And satest vpon a costly bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oyle.

George Lamsa Translation
Then they sat on stately beds, and tables were prepared before them, and my oil and my incense were wasted on them.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then satest thou upon a glorious couch With a table prepared before it, - And mine incense and mine oil, didst thou set thereon.

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.

Revised Standard Version
you sat upon a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and satest on a prepared bed, and before it there was a table set out, and as for mine incense and mine oil, they rejoiced in them,

Good News Translation
They would sit on a beautiful couch, and in front of them they would have a table covered with good things, including the incense and the olive oil that I had given them.

Christian Standard Bible®
You sat on a luxurious couch with a table spread before it, on which you had set my incense and oil.

Hebrew Names Version
and sit on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you did set my incense and my oil.

King James Version
And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

Lexham English Bible
And you sat on a magnificent couch and a table prepared before her, and my incense and my olive oil you put on her.

Literal Translation
And you sat on a glorious bed, and a table was arranged before it, and My incense and My oil you set on it.

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.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
thou sattest vpo a goodly bed, & a table spred before the: whervpon thou hast set myne incense and myne oyle.

New King James Version
You sat on a stately couch, with a table prepared before it, on which you had set 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.

Legacy Standard Bible
and you sat on a splendid couch with a table arranged before it on which you had set My incense and My oil.

Contextual Overview

³⁶ The Lorde sayde moreouer vnto me, Thou sonne of man, wilt thou not iudge Aholah and Aholibah? shewe them their abhominations. ³⁷ [Namely] that they haue broken their wedlocke, and blood is in their handes: and with their idols haue they comitted adulterie, and haue also caused their sonnes whom they bare vnto me, to passe [by the fire] to be their meate. ³⁸ Yea and this haue they done vnto me also, they haue defiled my sanctuarie in the same day, and haue prophaned my Sabbathes. ³⁹ For when they had slayne their children for their idols, they came the same day into my sanctuarie to defile it: and lo thus haue they done in my house. ⁴⁰ And howe much more [is it] that they sent for men to come from farre, vnto whom a messenger was sent, and lo they came? for whom thou didst washe thy selfe, and paynted thine eyes, and deckedst thee with ornamentes. ⁴¹ Thou sattest vpon a stately bed, and a table spread before it, whervpon thou hast set mine incense and mine sylc. ⁴² And a noyse of a mery company at it, and with the men, beside the multitude of the people, were brought men of Saba out of the desert, which gaue them bracelettes vpon their handes, and beautifull crownes vpon their heades. ⁴³ And I sayd vnto her that was worne in her adulteries, Nowe shall her fornications come to an ende, and she also. ⁴⁴ And they went in to her as they go vnto a common harlot: euen so went they [I say] to Aholah and Aholibah, those wicked women. ⁴⁵ And the righteous men, they shall iudge the after the maner of harlottes, and after the maner of murtherers: for they are harlottes, and blood is in their handes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

stately: Heb. honourable, Esther 1:6, Proverbs 7:16, Proverbs 7:17, Isaiah 57:7, Amos 2:8, Amos 6:4

a table: Ezekiel 44:16, Isaiah 65:11, Malachi 1:7

whereupon: Ezekiel 16:18, Ezekiel 16:19, Proverbs 7:17, Jeremiah 44:17, Hosea 2:8, Hosea 2:9

Reciprocal: Isaiah 57:8 - the doors Jeremiah 4:30 - Though Ezekiel 23:16 - and sent Ezekiel 41:22 - This is

Gill's Notes on the 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 כבודה "honorato", Junius and Tremellius, Polanus, Coeccius, Starckius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The figure is that of a woman decked in all her beauty, sitting on a couch (not bed) at a banquet prepared for those whom she has invited. This further offence is not one of idolatry, but that of courting alliances with other powers which were not less readily made than broken.

Ezekiel 23:40

That ye have sent - Better, “they (i. e., Israel and Judah) sent.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 23:41. And satest upon a stately bed — Hast raised a stately altar to thy idols; probably alluding to that which Ahaz ordered to be made, after the similitude of that which he saw at Damascus. The bed here is in allusion to the sofas on which the ancients were accustomed to recline at their meals; or to the couches on which they place Asiatic brides, with incense pots and sweetmeats on a table before them.