Herbs In The Bible
Herbs In The Bible
What are some references to drugs and medicine and herbs in the Bible?
Genesis 50:2: "And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel."
2Kings 20:7: "And Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered."
Isaiah 1:6: "From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment."
Luke 10:34: "And went to him, and bound up his wounds, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him." These are the words of Jesus in a parable.
1Timothy 5:23: "drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities."
James 5:14: "Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:"
Ezekiel 30:21: "son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharoah king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword."
Matthew 9:12: "But when Jesus hear that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick."
Ezekiel 47:12: "And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine."
2Chronicles 15:12: "And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians."
Jeremiah 8:22: "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?"
Luke 4:23: "And he said unto them, Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country." This is Jesus speaking to questioners of his descent from Joseph the carpenter.
Colossians 4:14: "Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you."
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