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How should Christians define the use of incense in prayer/meditation/quiet time/ etc......??
Is it Holy?
Or unHoly?
Is it Holy?
Or unHoly?
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I like to use incense because it is calming and smells good....
But using it in prayer doesnt make sense.
But using it in prayer doesnt make sense.
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ChristineES
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Great question.
By itself it is not evil. It can smell nice.
Just as a deck of cards is not evil when one plays solitaire, but may be if used as Tarot Cards.
By itself it is not evil. It can smell nice.
Just as a deck of cards is not evil when one plays solitaire, but may be if used as Tarot Cards.
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Star_Wars_Lover
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ya I wan't 2 sure very good question!
destiny
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I love candles and have alot of them, but I have never liked in incense, It makes me feel like I need to get to some fresh air in a hurry.
I guess incense wouldn't add any more to your prayer life than a broom leaning over in the corner or a lamp sitting nearby on an endtable.
It's a lifeless thing.
I guess incense wouldn't add any more to your prayer life than a broom leaning over in the corner or a lamp sitting nearby on an endtable.
It's a lifeless thing.
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Imagican
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Let's look at it realistically. We know that at one time incense was used and in the proper perspective it was indeed a holy offering.
Now let us look at it's modern usage. Most is made for 'other' gods to start with. And look at how it became so popular in our modern culture. Through drug use and teachings of the likes of Alister Crowley.
So, since I don't know the holy usage of incense, I no longer partake in it's enticements one way or the other. Since I know it is a form of worship, yet DON'T know it's proper place in the worship of God, I simply don't take the chance of offending my Father or my spirit.
This is all just personal opinion though. I have firm beliefs in them, but in no way would I accuse others of 'witchcraft' for burning incense or candles. I just know that it COULD be used in an un-holy way and find that I need not suffer the possible consequences for it's misuse.
Now let us look at it's modern usage. Most is made for 'other' gods to start with. And look at how it became so popular in our modern culture. Through drug use and teachings of the likes of Alister Crowley.
So, since I don't know the holy usage of incense, I no longer partake in it's enticements one way or the other. Since I know it is a form of worship, yet DON'T know it's proper place in the worship of God, I simply don't take the chance of offending my Father or my spirit.
This is all just personal opinion though. I have firm beliefs in them, but in no way would I accuse others of 'witchcraft' for burning incense or candles. I just know that it COULD be used in an un-holy way and find that I need not suffer the possible consequences for it's misuse.
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Soma-Sight
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Well I personally believe its use to be HOLY bordering on NEUTRAL and here is why!
Incense
(Exo 25:6 NIV) olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
(Exo 30:1 NIV) "Make an altar of acacia wood for burning incense.
(Exo 30:7 NIV) "Aaron must burn fragrant incense on the altar every morning when he tends the lamps.
(Exo 30:8 NIV) He must burn incense again when he lights the lamps at twilight so incense will burn regularly before the LORD for the generations to come.
(Exo 30:9 NIV) Do not offer on this altar any other incense or any burnt offering or grain offering, and do not pour a drink offering on it.
(Exo 30:27 NIV) the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of incense,
(Exo 30:35 NIV) and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer. It is to be salted and pure and sacred.
(Exo 30:37 NIV) Do not make any incense with this formula for yourselves; consider it holy to the LORD.
(Exo 31:8 NIV) the table and its articles, the pure gold lampstand and all its accessories, the altar of incense,
(Exo 31:11 NIV) and the anointing oil and fragrant incense for the Holy Place. They are to make them just as I commanded you."
(Exo 35:8 NIV) olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
(Exo 35:15 NIV) the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense; the curtain for the doorway at the entrance to the tabernacle;
(Exo 35:28 NIV) They also brought spices and olive oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.
(Exo 37:25 NIV) They made the altar of incense out of acacia wood. It was square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high --its horns of one piece with it.
(Exo 37:29 NIV) They also made the sacred anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense--the work of a perfumer.
(Exo 39:38 NIV) the gold altar, the anointing oil, the fragrant incense, and the curtain for the entrance to the tent;
(Exo 40:5 NIV) Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the Testimony and put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
(Exo 40:27 NIV) and burned fragrant incense on it, as the LORD commanded him.
(Lev 2:1 NIV) "'When someone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering is to be of fine flour. He is to pour oil on it, put incense on it
(Lev 2:2 NIV) and take it to Aaron's sons the priests. The priest shall take a handful of the fine flour and oil, together with all the incense, and burn this as a memorial portion on the altar, an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
(Lev 2:15 NIV) Put oil and incense on it; it is a grain offering.
(Lev 2:16 NIV) The priest shall burn the memorial portion of the crushed grain and the oil, together with all the incense, as an offering made to the LORD by fire.
(Lev 4:7 NIV) The priest shall then put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that is before the LORD in the Tent of Meeting. The rest of the bull's blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
(Lev 5:11 NIV) "'If, however, he cannot afford two doves or two young pigeons, he is to bring as an offering for his sin a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He must not put oil or incense on it, because it is a sin offering.
(Lev 6:15 NIV) The priest is to take a handful of fine flour and oil, together with all the incense on the grain offering, and burn the memorial portion on the altar as an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
(Lev 10:1 NIV) Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to his command.
(Lev 16:12 NIV) He is to take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense and take them behind the curtain.
(Lev 16:13 NIV) He is to put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the Testimony, so that he will not die.
(Lev 24:7 NIV) Along each row put some pure incense as a memorial portion to represent the bread and to be an offering made to the LORD by fire.
(Lev 26:30 NIV) I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you.
(Num 4:16 NIV) "Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, is to have charge of the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the regular grain offering and the anointing oil. He is to be in charge of the entire tabernacle and everything in it, including its holy furnishings and articles."
(Num 5:15 NIV) then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder offering to draw attention to guilt.
(Num 7:14 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:20 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:26 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:32 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:38 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:44 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:50 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:56 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:62 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:68 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:74 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:80 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:86 NIV) The twelve gold dishes filled with incense weighed ten shekels each, according to the sanctuary shekel. Altogether, the gold dishes weighed a hundred and twenty shekels.
(Num 16:7 NIV) and tomorrow put fire and incense in them before the LORD. The man the LORD chooses will be the one who is holy. You Levites have gone too far!"
(Num 16:17 NIV) Each man is to take his censer and put incense in it--250 censers in all--and present it before the LORD. You and Aaron are to present your censers also."
(Num 16:18 NIV) So each man took his censer, put fire and incense in it, and stood with Moses and Aaron at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
(Num 16:35 NIV) And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
(Num 16:40 NIV) as the LORD directed him through Moses. This was to remind the Israelites that no one except a descendant of Aaron should come to burn incense before the LORD, or he would become like Korah and his followers.
(Num 16:46 NIV) Then Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer and put incense in it, along with fire from the altar, and hurry to the assembly to make atonement for them. Wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has started."
(Num 16:47 NIV) So Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly. The plague had already started among the people, but Aaron offered the incense and made atonement for them.
(Deu 33:10 NIV) He teaches your precepts to Jacob and your law to Israel. He offers incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
(1 Sam 2:28 NIV) I chose your father out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in my presence. I also gave your father's house all the offerings made with fire by the Israelites.
(1 Ki 3:3 NIV) Solomon showed his love for the LORD by walking according to the statutes of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.
(1 Ki 9:25 NIV) Three times a year Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense before the LORD along with them, and so fulfilled the temple obligations.
(1 Ki 11:8 NIV) He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.
(1 Ki 22:43 NIV) In everything he walked in the ways of his father Asa and did not stray from them; he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
(2 Ki 12:3 NIV) The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
(2 Ki 14:4 NIV) The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
(2 Ki 15:4 NIV) The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
(2 Ki 15:35 NIV) The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there. Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the temple of the LORD.
(2 Ki 16:4 NIV) He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.
(2 Ki 17:11 NIV) At every high place they burned incense, as the nations whom the LORD had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that provoked the LORD to anger.
(2 Ki 18:4 NIV) He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.)
(2 Ki 22:17 NIV) Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and provoked me to anger by all the idols their hands have made, my anger will burn against this place and will not be quenched.'
(2 Ki 23:5 NIV) He did away with the pagan priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem--those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts.
(2 Ki 23:8 NIV) Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the shrines at the gates--at the entrance to the Gate of Joshua, the city governor, which is on the left of the city gate.
(1 Chr 6:49 NIV) But Aaron and his descendants were the ones who presented offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense in connection with all that was done in the Most Holy Place, making atonement for Israel, in accordance with all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
(1 Chr 9:29 NIV) Others were assigned to take care of the furnishings and all the other articles of the sanctuary, as well as the flour and wine, and the oil, incense and spices.
(1 Chr 28:18 NIV) and the weight of the refined gold for the altar of incense. He also gave him the plan for the chariot, that is, the cherubim of gold that spread their wings and shelter the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
(2 Chr 2:4 NIV) Now I am about to build a temple for the Name of the LORD my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for setting out the consecrated bread regularly, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening and on Sabbaths and New Moons and at the appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel.
(2 Chr 13:11 NIV) Every morning and evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the bread on the ceremonially clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. We are observing the requirements of the LORD our God. But you have forsaken him.
(2 Chr 14:5 NIV) He removed the high places and incense altars in every town in Judah, and the kingdom was at peace under him.
(2 Chr 26:16 NIV) But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, and entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.
(2 Chr 26:18 NIV) They confronted him and said, "It is not right for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD. That is for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who have been consecrated to burn incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful; and you will not be honored by the LORD God."
(2 Chr 26:19 NIV) Uzziah, who had a censer in his hand ready to burn incense, became angry. While he was raging at the priests in their presence before the incense altar in the Lord's temple, leprosy broke out on his forehead.
(2 Chr 28:4 NIV) He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.
(2 Chr 29:7 NIV) They also shut the doors of the portico and put out the lamps. They did not burn incense or present any burnt offerings at the sanctuary to the God of Israel.
(2 Chr 29:11 NIV) My sons, do not be negligent now, for the LORD has chosen you to stand before him and serve him, to minister before him and to burn incense."
(2 Chr 30:14 NIV) They removed the altars in Jerusalem and cleared away the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.
(2 Chr 34:4 NIV) Under his direction the altars of the Baals were torn down; he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them, and smashed the Asherah poles, the idols and the images. These he broke to pieces and scattered over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
(2 Chr 34:7 NIV) he tore down the altars and the Asherah poles and crushed the idols to powder and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout Israel. Then he went back to Jerusalem.
(2 Chr 34:25 NIV) Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and provoked me to anger by all that their hands have made, my anger will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched.'
(Neh 13:5 NIV) and he had provided him with a large room formerly used to store the grain offerings and incense and temple articles, and also the tithes of grain, new wine and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers and gatekeepers, as well as the contributions for the priests.
(Neh 13:9 NIV) I gave orders to purify the rooms, and then I put back into them the equipment of the house of God, with the grain offerings and the incense.
(Psa 141:2 NIV) May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
(Prov 27:9 NIV) Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel.
(Song 3:6 NIV) Who is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and incense made from all the spices of the merchant?
(Song 4:6 NIV) Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of incense.
(Song 4:14 NIV) nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and all the finest spices.
(Isa 1:13 NIV) Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations-- I cannot bear your evil assemblies.
(Isa 17:8 NIV) They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles and the incense altars their fingers have made.
(Isa 27:9 NIV) By this, then, will Jacob's guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruitage of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like chalk stones crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles or incense altars will be left standing.
(Isa 43:23 NIV) You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with grain offerings nor wearied you with demands for incense.
(Isa 60:6 NIV) Herds of camels will cover your land, young camels of Midian and Ephah. And all from Sheba will come, bearing gold and incense and proclaiming the praise of the LORD.
(Isa 65:3 NIV) a people who continually provoke me to my very face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on altars of brick;
(Isa 66:3 NIV) But whoever sacrifices a bull is like one who kills a man, and whoever offers a lamb, like one who breaks a dog's neck; whoever makes a grain offering is like one who presents pig's blood, and whoever burns memorial incense, like one who worships an idol. They have chosen their own ways, and their souls delight in their abominations;
(Jer 1:16 NIV) I will pronounce my judgments on my people because of their wickedness in forsaking me, in burning incense to other gods and in worshiping what their hands have made.
(Jer 6:20 NIV) What do I care about incense from Sheba or sweet calamus from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please me."
(Jer 7:9 NIV) "'Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known,
(Jer 11:12 NIV) The towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they will not help them at all when disaster strikes.
(Jer 11:13 NIV) You have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.'
(Jer 11:17 NIV) The LORD Almighty, who planted you, has decreed disaster for you, because the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done evil and provoked me to anger by burning incense to Baal.
(Jer 17:26 NIV) People will come from the towns of Judah and the villages around Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin and the western foothills, from the hill country and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings, incense and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.
(Jer 18:15 NIV) Yet my people have forgotten me; they burn incense to worthless idols, which made them stumble in their ways and in the ancient paths. They made them walk in bypaths and on roads not built up.
(Jer 19:13 NIV) The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth--all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.'"
(Jer 32:29 NIV) The Babylonians who are attacking this city will come in and set it on fire; they will burn it down, along with the houses where the people provoked me to anger by burning incense on the roofs to Baal and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.
(Jer 41:5 NIV) eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh and Samaria, bringing grain offerings and incense with them to the house of the LORD.
(Jer 44:3 NIV) because of the evil they have done. They provoked me to anger by burning incense and by worshiping other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew.
(Jer 44:5 NIV) But they did not listen or pay attention; they did not turn from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods.
(Jer 44:8 NIV) Why provoke me to anger with what your hands have made, burning incense to other gods in Egypt, where you have come to live? You will destroy yourselves and make yourselves an object of cursing and reproach among all the nations on earth.
(Jer 44:15 NIV) Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, along with all the women who were present--a large assembly--and all the people living in Lower and Upper Egypt, said to Jeremiah,
(Jer 44:17 NIV) 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 fathers, 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.
(Jer 44:18 NIV) But ever since we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have had nothing and have been perishing by sword and famine."
(Jer 44:19 NIV) The women added, "When we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did not our husbands know that we were making cakes like her image and pouring out drink offerings to her?"
(Jer 44:21 NIV) "Did not the LORD remember and think about the incense burned in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem by you and your fathers, your kings and your officials and the people of the land?
(Jer 44:23 NIV) Because you have burned incense and have sinned against the LORD and have not obeyed him or followed his law or his decrees or his stipulations, this disaster has come upon you, as you now see."
(Jer 44:25 NIV) This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You and your wives have shown by your actions what you promised when you said, 'We will certainly carry out the vows we made to burn incense and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven.' "Go ahead then, do what you promised! Keep your vows!
(Jer 48:35 NIV) In Moab I will put an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods," declares the LORD.
(Ezek 6:4 NIV) Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will slay your people in front of your idols.
(Ezek 6:6 NIV) Wherever you live, the towns will be laid waste and the high places demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken down, and what you have made wiped out.
(Ezek 6:13 NIV) And they will know that I am the LORD, when their people lie slain among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak--places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
(Ezek 8:11 NIV) In front of them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan was standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.
(Ezek 16:18 NIV) And you took your embroidered clothes to put on them, and you offered my oil and incense before them.
(Ezek 16:19 NIV) Also the food I provided for you--the fine flour, olive oil and honey I gave you to eat--you offered as fragrant incense before them. That is what happened, declares the Sovereign LORD.
(Ezek 20:28 NIV) When I brought them into the land I had sworn to give them and they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, made offerings that provoked me to anger, presented their fragrant incense and poured out their drink offerings.
(Ezek 20:41 NIV) I will accept you as fragrant incense when I bring you out from the nations and gather you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will show myself holy among you in the sight of the nations.
(Ezek 23:41 NIV) You sat on an elegant couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed the incense and oil that belonged to me.
(Dan 2:46 NIV) Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell prostrate before Daniel and paid him honor and ordered that an offering and incense be presented to him.
(Hosea 2:13 NIV) I will punish her for the days she burned incense to the Baals; she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but me she forgot," declares the LORD.
(Hosea 11:2 NIV) But the more I called Israel, the further they went from me. They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images.
(Hab 1:16 NIV) Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury and enjoys the choicest food.
(Mal 1:11 NIV) My name will be great among the nations, from the rising to the setting of the sun. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to my name, because my name will be great among the nations," says the LORD Almighty.
(Mat 2:11 NIV) On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.
(Luke 1:9 NIV) he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
(Luke 1:10 NIV) And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshipers were praying outside.
(Luke 1:11 NIV) Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense.
(Heb 9:4 NIV) which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron's staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
(Rev 5:8 NIV) And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
(Rev 8:3 NIV) Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne.
(Rev 8:4 NIV) The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, went up before God from the angel's hand.
(Rev 18:13 NIV) cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and bodies and souls of men.
Incense
(Exo 25:6 NIV) olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
(Exo 30:1 NIV) "Make an altar of acacia wood for burning incense.
(Exo 30:7 NIV) "Aaron must burn fragrant incense on the altar every morning when he tends the lamps.
(Exo 30:8 NIV) He must burn incense again when he lights the lamps at twilight so incense will burn regularly before the LORD for the generations to come.
(Exo 30:9 NIV) Do not offer on this altar any other incense or any burnt offering or grain offering, and do not pour a drink offering on it.
(Exo 30:27 NIV) the table and all its articles, the lampstand and its accessories, the altar of incense,
(Exo 30:35 NIV) and make a fragrant blend of incense, the work of a perfumer. It is to be salted and pure and sacred.
(Exo 30:37 NIV) Do not make any incense with this formula for yourselves; consider it holy to the LORD.
(Exo 31:8 NIV) the table and its articles, the pure gold lampstand and all its accessories, the altar of incense,
(Exo 31:11 NIV) and the anointing oil and fragrant incense for the Holy Place. They are to make them just as I commanded you."
(Exo 35:8 NIV) olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense;
(Exo 35:15 NIV) the altar of incense with its poles, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense; the curtain for the doorway at the entrance to the tabernacle;
(Exo 35:28 NIV) They also brought spices and olive oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.
(Exo 37:25 NIV) They made the altar of incense out of acacia wood. It was square, a cubit long and a cubit wide, and two cubits high --its horns of one piece with it.
(Exo 37:29 NIV) They also made the sacred anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense--the work of a perfumer.
(Exo 39:38 NIV) the gold altar, the anointing oil, the fragrant incense, and the curtain for the entrance to the tent;
(Exo 40:5 NIV) Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the Testimony and put the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
(Exo 40:27 NIV) and burned fragrant incense on it, as the LORD commanded him.
(Lev 2:1 NIV) "'When someone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering is to be of fine flour. He is to pour oil on it, put incense on it
(Lev 2:2 NIV) and take it to Aaron's sons the priests. The priest shall take a handful of the fine flour and oil, together with all the incense, and burn this as a memorial portion on the altar, an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
(Lev 2:15 NIV) Put oil and incense on it; it is a grain offering.
(Lev 2:16 NIV) The priest shall burn the memorial portion of the crushed grain and the oil, together with all the incense, as an offering made to the LORD by fire.
(Lev 4:7 NIV) The priest shall then put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that is before the LORD in the Tent of Meeting. The rest of the bull's blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
(Lev 5:11 NIV) "'If, however, he cannot afford two doves or two young pigeons, he is to bring as an offering for his sin a tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He must not put oil or incense on it, because it is a sin offering.
(Lev 6:15 NIV) The priest is to take a handful of fine flour and oil, together with all the incense on the grain offering, and burn the memorial portion on the altar as an aroma pleasing to the LORD.
(Lev 10:1 NIV) Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to his command.
(Lev 16:12 NIV) He is to take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense and take them behind the curtain.
(Lev 16:13 NIV) He is to put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the Testimony, so that he will not die.
(Lev 24:7 NIV) Along each row put some pure incense as a memorial portion to represent the bread and to be an offering made to the LORD by fire.
(Lev 26:30 NIV) I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and I will abhor you.
(Num 4:16 NIV) "Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, is to have charge of the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the regular grain offering and the anointing oil. He is to be in charge of the entire tabernacle and everything in it, including its holy furnishings and articles."
(Num 5:15 NIV) then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder offering to draw attention to guilt.
(Num 7:14 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:20 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:26 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:32 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:38 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:44 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:50 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:56 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:62 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:68 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:74 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:80 NIV) one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
(Num 7:86 NIV) The twelve gold dishes filled with incense weighed ten shekels each, according to the sanctuary shekel. Altogether, the gold dishes weighed a hundred and twenty shekels.
(Num 16:7 NIV) and tomorrow put fire and incense in them before the LORD. The man the LORD chooses will be the one who is holy. You Levites have gone too far!"
(Num 16:17 NIV) Each man is to take his censer and put incense in it--250 censers in all--and present it before the LORD. You and Aaron are to present your censers also."
(Num 16:18 NIV) So each man took his censer, put fire and incense in it, and stood with Moses and Aaron at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
(Num 16:35 NIV) And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
(Num 16:40 NIV) as the LORD directed him through Moses. This was to remind the Israelites that no one except a descendant of Aaron should come to burn incense before the LORD, or he would become like Korah and his followers.
(Num 16:46 NIV) Then Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer and put incense in it, along with fire from the altar, and hurry to the assembly to make atonement for them. Wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has started."
(Num 16:47 NIV) So Aaron did as Moses said, and ran into the midst of the assembly. The plague had already started among the people, but Aaron offered the incense and made atonement for them.
(Deu 33:10 NIV) He teaches your precepts to Jacob and your law to Israel. He offers incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
(1 Sam 2:28 NIV) I chose your father out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in my presence. I also gave your father's house all the offerings made with fire by the Israelites.
(1 Ki 3:3 NIV) Solomon showed his love for the LORD by walking according to the statutes of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.
(1 Ki 9:25 NIV) Three times a year Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for the LORD, burning incense before the LORD along with them, and so fulfilled the temple obligations.
(1 Ki 11:8 NIV) He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.
(1 Ki 22:43 NIV) In everything he walked in the ways of his father Asa and did not stray from them; he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD. The high places, however, were not removed, and the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
(2 Ki 12:3 NIV) The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
(2 Ki 14:4 NIV) The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
(2 Ki 15:4 NIV) The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there.
(2 Ki 15:35 NIV) The high places, however, were not removed; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense there. Jotham rebuilt the Upper Gate of the temple of the LORD.
(2 Ki 16:4 NIV) He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.
(2 Ki 17:11 NIV) At every high place they burned incense, as the nations whom the LORD had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that provoked the LORD to anger.
(2 Ki 18:4 NIV) He removed the high places, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. He broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it. (It was called Nehushtan.)
(2 Ki 22:17 NIV) Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and provoked me to anger by all the idols their hands have made, my anger will burn against this place and will not be quenched.'
(2 Ki 23:5 NIV) He did away with the pagan priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around Jerusalem--those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations and to all the starry hosts.
(2 Ki 23:8 NIV) Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the shrines at the gates--at the entrance to the Gate of Joshua, the city governor, which is on the left of the city gate.
(1 Chr 6:49 NIV) But Aaron and his descendants were the ones who presented offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense in connection with all that was done in the Most Holy Place, making atonement for Israel, in accordance with all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
(1 Chr 9:29 NIV) Others were assigned to take care of the furnishings and all the other articles of the sanctuary, as well as the flour and wine, and the oil, incense and spices.
(1 Chr 28:18 NIV) and the weight of the refined gold for the altar of incense. He also gave him the plan for the chariot, that is, the cherubim of gold that spread their wings and shelter the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
(2 Chr 2:4 NIV) Now I am about to build a temple for the Name of the LORD my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for setting out the consecrated bread regularly, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening and on Sabbaths and New Moons and at the appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel.
(2 Chr 13:11 NIV) Every morning and evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the bread on the ceremonially clean table and light the lamps on the gold lampstand every evening. We are observing the requirements of the LORD our God. But you have forsaken him.
(2 Chr 14:5 NIV) He removed the high places and incense altars in every town in Judah, and the kingdom was at peace under him.
(2 Chr 26:16 NIV) But after Uzziah became powerful, his pride led to his downfall. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, and entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.
(2 Chr 26:18 NIV) They confronted him and said, "It is not right for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD. That is for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who have been consecrated to burn incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful; and you will not be honored by the LORD God."
(2 Chr 26:19 NIV) Uzziah, who had a censer in his hand ready to burn incense, became angry. While he was raging at the priests in their presence before the incense altar in the Lord's temple, leprosy broke out on his forehead.
(2 Chr 28:4 NIV) He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.
(2 Chr 29:7 NIV) They also shut the doors of the portico and put out the lamps. They did not burn incense or present any burnt offerings at the sanctuary to the God of Israel.
(2 Chr 29:11 NIV) My sons, do not be negligent now, for the LORD has chosen you to stand before him and serve him, to minister before him and to burn incense."
(2 Chr 30:14 NIV) They removed the altars in Jerusalem and cleared away the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.
(2 Chr 34:4 NIV) Under his direction the altars of the Baals were torn down; he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them, and smashed the Asherah poles, the idols and the images. These he broke to pieces and scattered over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
(2 Chr 34:7 NIV) he tore down the altars and the Asherah poles and crushed the idols to powder and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout Israel. Then he went back to Jerusalem.
(2 Chr 34:25 NIV) Because they have forsaken me and burned incense to other gods and provoked me to anger by all that their hands have made, my anger will be poured out on this place and will not be quenched.'
(Neh 13:5 NIV) and he had provided him with a large room formerly used to store the grain offerings and incense and temple articles, and also the tithes of grain, new wine and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers and gatekeepers, as well as the contributions for the priests.
(Neh 13:9 NIV) I gave orders to purify the rooms, and then I put back into them the equipment of the house of God, with the grain offerings and the incense.
(Psa 141:2 NIV) May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.
(Prov 27:9 NIV) Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel.
(Song 3:6 NIV) Who is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and incense made from all the spices of the merchant?
(Song 4:6 NIV) Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of incense.
(Song 4:14 NIV) nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and all the finest spices.
(Isa 1:13 NIV) Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations-- I cannot bear your evil assemblies.
(Isa 17:8 NIV) They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles and the incense altars their fingers have made.
(Isa 27:9 NIV) By this, then, will Jacob's guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruitage of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like chalk stones crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles or incense altars will be left standing.
(Isa 43:23 NIV) You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with grain offerings nor wearied you with demands for incense.
(Isa 60:6 NIV) Herds of camels will cover your land, young camels of Midian and Ephah. And all from Sheba will come, bearing gold and incense and proclaiming the praise of the LORD.
(Isa 65:3 NIV) a people who continually provoke me to my very face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on altars of brick;
(Isa 66:3 NIV) But whoever sacrifices a bull is like one who kills a man, and whoever offers a lamb, like one who breaks a dog's neck; whoever makes a grain offering is like one who presents pig's blood, and whoever burns memorial incense, like one who worships an idol. They have chosen their own ways, and their souls delight in their abominations;
(Jer 1:16 NIV) I will pronounce my judgments on my people because of their wickedness in forsaking me, in burning incense to other gods and in worshiping what their hands have made.
(Jer 6:20 NIV) What do I care about incense from Sheba or sweet calamus from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please me."
(Jer 7:9 NIV) "'Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known,
(Jer 11:12 NIV) The towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they will not help them at all when disaster strikes.
(Jer 11:13 NIV) You have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.'
(Jer 11:17 NIV) The LORD Almighty, who planted you, has decreed disaster for you, because the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done evil and provoked me to anger by burning incense to Baal.
(Jer 17:26 NIV) People will come from the towns of Judah and the villages around Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin and the western foothills, from the hill country and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings, incense and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.
(Jer 18:15 NIV) Yet my people have forgotten me; they burn incense to worthless idols, which made them stumble in their ways and in the ancient paths. They made them walk in bypaths and on roads not built up.
(Jer 19:13 NIV) The houses in Jerusalem and those of the kings of Judah will be defiled like this place, Topheth--all the houses where they burned incense on the roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.'"
(Jer 32:29 NIV) The Babylonians who are attacking this city will come in and set it on fire; they will burn it down, along with the houses where the people provoked me to anger by burning incense on the roofs to Baal and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.
(Jer 41:5 NIV) eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh and Samaria, bringing grain offerings and incense with them to the house of the LORD.
(Jer 44:3 NIV) because of the evil they have done. They provoked me to anger by burning incense and by worshiping other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew.
(Jer 44:5 NIV) But they did not listen or pay attention; they did not turn from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods.
(Jer 44:8 NIV) Why provoke me to anger with what your hands have made, burning incense to other gods in Egypt, where you have come to live? You will destroy yourselves and make yourselves an object of cursing and reproach among all the nations on earth.
(Jer 44:15 NIV) Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, along with all the women who were present--a large assembly--and all the people living in Lower and Upper Egypt, said to Jeremiah,
(Jer 44:17 NIV) 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 fathers, 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.
(Jer 44:18 NIV) But ever since we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have had nothing and have been perishing by sword and famine."
(Jer 44:19 NIV) The women added, "When we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did not our husbands know that we were making cakes like her image and pouring out drink offerings to her?"
(Jer 44:21 NIV) "Did not the LORD remember and think about the incense burned in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem by you and your fathers, your kings and your officials and the people of the land?
(Jer 44:23 NIV) Because you have burned incense and have sinned against the LORD and have not obeyed him or followed his law or his decrees or his stipulations, this disaster has come upon you, as you now see."
(Jer 44:25 NIV) This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: You and your wives have shown by your actions what you promised when you said, 'We will certainly carry out the vows we made to burn incense and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven.' "Go ahead then, do what you promised! Keep your vows!
(Jer 48:35 NIV) In Moab I will put an end to those who make offerings on the high places and burn incense to their gods," declares the LORD.
(Ezek 6:4 NIV) Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will slay your people in front of your idols.
(Ezek 6:6 NIV) Wherever you live, the towns will be laid waste and the high places demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken down, and what you have made wiped out.
(Ezek 6:13 NIV) And they will know that I am the LORD, when their people lie slain among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak--places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
(Ezek 8:11 NIV) In front of them stood seventy elders of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah son of Shaphan was standing among them. Each had a censer in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising.
(Ezek 16:18 NIV) And you took your embroidered clothes to put on them, and you offered my oil and incense before them.
(Ezek 16:19 NIV) Also the food I provided for you--the fine flour, olive oil and honey I gave you to eat--you offered as fragrant incense before them. That is what happened, declares the Sovereign LORD.
(Ezek 20:28 NIV) When I brought them into the land I had sworn to give them and they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, made offerings that provoked me to anger, presented their fragrant incense and poured out their drink offerings.
(Ezek 20:41 NIV) I will accept you as fragrant incense when I bring you out from the nations and gather you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will show myself holy among you in the sight of the nations.
(Ezek 23:41 NIV) You sat on an elegant couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed the incense and oil that belonged to me.
(Dan 2:46 NIV) Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell prostrate before Daniel and paid him honor and ordered that an offering and incense be presented to him.
(Hosea 2:13 NIV) I will punish her for the days she burned incense to the Baals; she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but me she forgot," declares the LORD.
(Hosea 11:2 NIV) But the more I called Israel, the further they went from me. They sacrificed to the Baals and they burned incense to images.
(Hab 1:16 NIV) Therefore he sacrifices to his net and burns incense to his dragnet, for by his net he lives in luxury and enjoys the choicest food.
(Mal 1:11 NIV) My name will be great among the nations, from the rising to the setting of the sun. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to my name, because my name will be great among the nations," says the LORD Almighty.
(Mat 2:11 NIV) On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.
(Luke 1:9 NIV) he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
(Luke 1:10 NIV) And when the time for the burning of incense came, all the assembled worshipers were praying outside.
(Luke 1:11 NIV) Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense.
(Heb 9:4 NIV) which had the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. This ark contained the gold jar of manna, Aaron's staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.
(Rev 5:8 NIV) And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
(Rev 8:3 NIV) Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne.
(Rev 8:4 NIV) The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of the saints, went up before God from the angel's hand.
(Rev 18:13 NIV) cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and bodies and souls of men.
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INCENSE
in'-sens (qeTorah; in Jer 44:21, qiTTer; in Mal 1:11, qaTar, "In every place incense shall be offered unto my name"; the word lebhonah, translated "incense" in several passages in Isa and Jer in the King James Version, is properly "frankincense," and is so rendered in the Revised Version (British and American)): The offering of incense, or burning of aromatic substances, is common in the religious ceremonies of nearly all nations (Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Phoenicians, etc.), and it is natural to find it holding a prominent place in the tabernacle and temple-worship of Israel. The newer critical theory that incense was a late importation into the religion of Israel, and that the altar of incense described in Ex 30:1 ff is a post-exilian invention, rests on presuppositions which are not here admitted, and is in contradiction to the express notices of the altar of incense in 1 Ki 6:20,22; 7:48; 9:25; compare 2 Ch 4:19 (see discussion of the subject by Delitzsch in Luthardt's Zeitschrift, 1880, 113 ff). In the denunciation of Eli in 1 Sam 2:27 ff, the burning of incense is mentioned as one of the functions of the priesthood (2:28). The "smoke" that filled the temple in Isaiah's vision (Isa 6:4) may be presumed to be the smoke of incense. The word keTorah itself properly denotes. "smoke." For the altar of incense see the article on that subject, and TABERNACLE and TEMPLE. The incense used in the tabernacle service--called "sweet incense" (keToreth ha-cammim, Ex 25:6, etc.)--was compounded according to a definite prescription of the perfumes, stacte, onycha, galbanum and pure frankincense (Ex 30:34 f), and incense not so compounded was rejected as "strange incense" (keTorah zarah, Ex 30:9). In the offering of incense, burning coals from the altar of burnt offering were borne in a censer and put upon the altar of incense (the "golden altar" before the oracle), then the fragrant incense was sprinkled on the fire (compare Lk 1:9 f). Ample details of the rabbinical rules about incense may be seen in the article "Incense," in DB.
See CENSER.
Figuratively, incense was symbolical of ascending prayer. The multitude were praying while Zacharias offered incense (Lk 1:10, thumiama), and in Rev 5:8; 8:3 f, the incense in the heavenly temple is connected and even identified (5:8) with "the prayers of the saints."
James Orr
http://www.bible-history.com/isbe/I/INCENSE/
in'-sens (qeTorah; in Jer 44:21, qiTTer; in Mal 1:11, qaTar, "In every place incense shall be offered unto my name"; the word lebhonah, translated "incense" in several passages in Isa and Jer in the King James Version, is properly "frankincense," and is so rendered in the Revised Version (British and American)): The offering of incense, or burning of aromatic substances, is common in the religious ceremonies of nearly all nations (Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Phoenicians, etc.), and it is natural to find it holding a prominent place in the tabernacle and temple-worship of Israel. The newer critical theory that incense was a late importation into the religion of Israel, and that the altar of incense described in Ex 30:1 ff is a post-exilian invention, rests on presuppositions which are not here admitted, and is in contradiction to the express notices of the altar of incense in 1 Ki 6:20,22; 7:48; 9:25; compare 2 Ch 4:19 (see discussion of the subject by Delitzsch in Luthardt's Zeitschrift, 1880, 113 ff). In the denunciation of Eli in 1 Sam 2:27 ff, the burning of incense is mentioned as one of the functions of the priesthood (2:28). The "smoke" that filled the temple in Isaiah's vision (Isa 6:4) may be presumed to be the smoke of incense. The word keTorah itself properly denotes. "smoke." For the altar of incense see the article on that subject, and TABERNACLE and TEMPLE. The incense used in the tabernacle service--called "sweet incense" (keToreth ha-cammim, Ex 25:6, etc.)--was compounded according to a definite prescription of the perfumes, stacte, onycha, galbanum and pure frankincense (Ex 30:34 f), and incense not so compounded was rejected as "strange incense" (keTorah zarah, Ex 30:9). In the offering of incense, burning coals from the altar of burnt offering were borne in a censer and put upon the altar of incense (the "golden altar" before the oracle), then the fragrant incense was sprinkled on the fire (compare Lk 1:9 f). Ample details of the rabbinical rules about incense may be seen in the article "Incense," in DB.
See CENSER.
Figuratively, incense was symbolical of ascending prayer. The multitude were praying while Zacharias offered incense (Lk 1:10, thumiama), and in Rev 5:8; 8:3 f, the incense in the heavenly temple is connected and even identified (5:8) with "the prayers of the saints."
James Orr
http://www.bible-history.com/isbe/I/INCENSE/
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Just because something smells nice doesn't mean it's a narcotic or is used in the worship of pagan gods.
Lavender sticks are made for many reasons and smell pretty.
If you think you need incense for your worship to be holy, then don't do it. You don't need anything for your worship to be Holy, just a heart full of the love for God.
On the other hand, incense can be very helpful. In fact, I recommend some sort of aroma bearing material for anyone having trouble concentrating in prayer.
For example, all of us have those days when we are so tired and frustrated with life that we have trouble getting into a real state of prayer. Every time we try to concentrate on the Lord, Satan or our own discord and sin distract us. There are different ways we can help get back on track. Some people sing songs, count their blessings, concentrate on a favorite verse, all the while they are building themselves up in the consciousness of the Holy Ghost. Another way we can concentrate is through strong aromas. When I'm having trouble concentrating, I use a strong scented olive oil sometimes. Spreading it on my hands and falling to my knees, I can smell the sweetness of it each time I take a deep, calm breath. But when I smell that sweet scent, it forces me to consider why I put it on. Then I can really start to pray, because literally, with each breath, my mind focuses on God.
But I don't always use incense. It's helpful to sometimes do different things you may not have thought of before. Sometimes you really need to fall prostrate before the throne. Sometimes you need to sing at the top of your lungs. I like to go on long walks looking at the flowers and the trees, all the while blessing their maker and petitioning about my hopes and fears for myself and others.
It's all a matter of you. God wants you to come to Him with your own praise for him. All that matters in prayer is you and Christ;that you lean more on him and less on yourself.
Lavender sticks are made for many reasons and smell pretty.
If you think you need incense for your worship to be holy, then don't do it. You don't need anything for your worship to be Holy, just a heart full of the love for God.
On the other hand, incense can be very helpful. In fact, I recommend some sort of aroma bearing material for anyone having trouble concentrating in prayer.
For example, all of us have those days when we are so tired and frustrated with life that we have trouble getting into a real state of prayer. Every time we try to concentrate on the Lord, Satan or our own discord and sin distract us. There are different ways we can help get back on track. Some people sing songs, count their blessings, concentrate on a favorite verse, all the while they are building themselves up in the consciousness of the Holy Ghost. Another way we can concentrate is through strong aromas. When I'm having trouble concentrating, I use a strong scented olive oil sometimes. Spreading it on my hands and falling to my knees, I can smell the sweetness of it each time I take a deep, calm breath. But when I smell that sweet scent, it forces me to consider why I put it on. Then I can really start to pray, because literally, with each breath, my mind focuses on God.
But I don't always use incense. It's helpful to sometimes do different things you may not have thought of before. Sometimes you really need to fall prostrate before the throne. Sometimes you need to sing at the top of your lungs. I like to go on long walks looking at the flowers and the trees, all the while blessing their maker and petitioning about my hopes and fears for myself and others.
It's all a matter of you. God wants you to come to Him with your own praise for him. All that matters in prayer is you and Christ;that you lean more on him and less on yourself.
Vic C.
Member
Soma, notice the use is limited to the OT and Revelation, which is primarily about "Israel". Since we have a way ( John 14:6 ) to the Father, we haven't the need for incense burning, animal sacrifices, etc. So I don't see this as a requirement for NT saints.
There is substancial evidence that senses such as smell play a part in "mood' enhancement (aromatherapy), but I feel there's no need for that in our daily prayer and "meditation". The Holy Spirit is and should be all we need. Also, we'd could get caught up in further "new age" practices.
On that note, I often use scented candles and/or sandlewood incense to "mask" the smells that permeate from my two cats and their litterbox. :-D Plus, I still have a guilty pleasure and occasionally smoke a cigar or two during the week. 8-)
There is substancial evidence that senses such as smell play a part in "mood' enhancement (aromatherapy), but I feel there's no need for that in our daily prayer and "meditation". The Holy Spirit is and should be all we need. Also, we'd could get caught up in further "new age" practices.
On that note, I often use scented candles and/or sandlewood incense to "mask" the smells that permeate from my two cats and their litterbox. :-D Plus, I still have a guilty pleasure and occasionally smoke a cigar or two during the week. 8-)
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belovedwolfofgod
Guest
i wouldnt mind incense when i do the Rosary. it would engage all my senses in prayer. eyes, ears, taste, smell, and touch. thats all five senses focused on prayer. yeah, i could use it. but i dont, cause then people think im smoking illegal substance and wont believe its just the Rosary... of course, some people like to treat that as an illegal substance...
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prayerwarrior
Guest
I think that it's beautiful to burn incense while praying as a holy offering to God. That's why I love it when we have Incense at Mass because the Mass is the highest form of prayer and it's so beautiful to offer it up to the Lord
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Soma-Sight
Guest
lol...
Nothing like cat matter huh?
My parents had 30 cats at one time!!!!
They were all outdoors and we lived in a more country setting but man that was a lot of cat treasures!!!!
GundamZero....
Great post!!!
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Pansy
Guest
Neutral-depends on use.
To me this seems to be practice that can be called a "tradition"... and I've know many a SDAs to not like that word. I myself have no problem with burning incense (unless of course you're trying to mask the smell of pot... which is a common use of incense). But I don't think the importance should be placed upon the atmosphere created and the appeal to the senses, but rather the focus should be on the time of meditation (& prayer) and how it can restore one's soul.
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Soma-Sight
Guest
LOL!
Is this from experience?
Just kidding!
Genesis 1:29
Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
I have seen people do it, and its pretty much common knowledge that people do use it that way.
When was the last time you made meal out of poison oak? Or smoked it up? Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians that all things are permissable, but that doesn't mean that they are at the same time beneficial. Just because the plant grows doesn't mean we need to smoke it. We all are aware of the health risks of smoking... we also know the effects mary jane over time on the brain.
When was the last time you made meal out of poison oak? Or smoked it up? Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians that all things are permissable, but that doesn't mean that they are at the same time beneficial. Just because the plant grows doesn't mean we need to smoke it. We all are aware of the health risks of smoking... we also know the effects mary jane over time on the brain.
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Fulton Sheen's Warrior
Guest
+JMJ+
They say smell is the sense that is the most tied to memory. For me, the very smell of inscence reminds me of the Mass and sacred music. It often moves me to prayer.
They say smell is the sense that is the most tied to memory. For me, the very smell of inscence reminds me of the Mass and sacred music. It often moves me to prayer.
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