41 Bible Verses About Incense

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One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:

Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,

Exodus 25:6KJV

And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it.

Exodus 30:1KJV

And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it.

Exodus 30:7KJV

And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations.

Exodus 30:8KJV

Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.

Exodus 30:9KJV

And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense,

Exodus 30:27KJV

And the table and his furniture, and the pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar of incense,

Exodus 31:8KJV

And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,

Exodus 35:8KJV

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,

Exodus 35:15KJV

And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.

Exodus 35:28KJV

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.

Exodus 37:25KJV

And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.

Exodus 37:29KJV

And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,

Exodus 39:38KJV

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.

Exodus 40:5KJV

And he burnt sweet incense thereon; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Exodus 40:27KJV

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.

Leviticus 10:1KJV

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:

Leviticus 16:12KJV

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:

Leviticus 16:13KJV

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.

Numbers 4:16KJV

One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:

Numbers 7:20KJV

One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Numbers 7:26KJV

One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Numbers 7:32KJV

One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Numbers 7:44KJV

One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Numbers 7:50KJV

One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Numbers 7:62KJV

One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Numbers 7:68KJV

One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:

Numbers 7:80KJV

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.

Numbers 7:86KJV

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.

Numbers 16:17KJV

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.

Numbers 16:18KJV

And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.

Numbers 16:35KJV

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.

Numbers 16:40KJV

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.

Numbers 16:46KJV

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.

Numbers 16:47KJV

They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.

Deuteronomy 33:10KJV

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?

1 Samuel 2:28KJV

And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

1 Kings 3:3KJV

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.

1 Kings 9:25KJV

And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

1 Kings 11:8KJV

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.

1 Kings 13:1KJV

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.

1 Kings 13:2KJV

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