In the New Testament, incense has a rich history. It was used in various ways by different groups of people, and there are many different ways to interpret it.
In this post, we will look at how incense was used in the Bible, what it symbolized for those who used it, and some ways that you can incorporate incense into your own spiritual practices.In the New Testament, incense is mentioned several times. One of the most well-known examples is in Revelation 5:8, where it is described as a “pure offering” that God accepts with pleasure. The other references are found in Exodus 30:1-10, Isaiah 43:24, and Psalm 141:2.
Incense In The Bible New Testament
The purpose of these passages is to show that incense was used by people both in ancient times and today as a way to worship God. It’s also used to show that things of beauty can be used as tools for worshiping God.
2 Chronicles 13:11
Verse Concepts
Every morning and evening they burn to the Lord burnt offerings and fragrant incense, and the showbread is set on the clean table, and the golden lampstand with its lamps is ready to light every evening; for we keep the charge of the Lord our God, but you have forsaken Him.
Exodus 30:7-9
Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it; he shall burn it every morning when he trims the lamps. When Aaron trims the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense. There shall be perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations. You shall not offer any strange incense on this altar, or burnt offering or meal offering; and you shall not pour out a drink offering on it.
Numbers 4:16
Verse Concepts
“The responsibility of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is the oil for the light and the fragrant incense and the continual grain offering and the anointing oil—the responsibility of all the tabernacle and of all that is in it, with the sanctuary and its furnishings.”
Deuteronomy 33:10
Verse Concepts
“They shall teach Your ordinances to Jacob,
And Your law to Israel.
They shall put incense before You,
And whole burnt offerings on Your altar.
1 Samuel 2:28
Verse Concepts
Did I not choose them from all the tribes of Israel to be My priests, to go up to My altar, to burn incense, to carry an ephod before Me; and did I not give to the house of your father all the fire offerings of the sons of Israel?
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1 Chronicles 6:49
Verse Concepts
But Aaron and his sons offered on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
1 Chronicles 9:29
Verse Concepts
Some of them also were appointed over the furniture and over all the utensils of the sanctuary and over the fine flour and the wine and the oil and the frankincense and the spices.
Luke 1:9
Verse Concepts
according to the custom of the priestly office, he was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
Numbers 16:16-18
Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company be present before the Lord tomorrow, both you and they along with Aaron. Each of you take his firepan and put incense on it, and each of you bring his censer before the Lord, two hundred and fifty firepans; also you and Aaron shall each bring his firepan.” So they each took his own censer and put fire on it, and laid incense on it; and they stood at the doorway of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron.
2 Chronicles 26:16-19
But when he became strong, his heart was so proud that he acted corruptly, and he was unfaithful to the Lord his God, for he entered the temple of the Lord to burn incense on the altar of incense. Then Azariah the priest entered after him and with him eighty priests of the Lord, valiant men. They opposed Uzziah the king and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron who are consecrated to burn incense. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful and will have no honor from the Lord God.”read more.
2 Chronicles 29:7-8
They have also shut the doors of the porch and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel. Therefore the wrath of the Lord was against Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, of horror, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.
Exodus 30:34-38
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Take for yourself spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, spices with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each. With it you shall make incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, and holy. You shall beat some of it very fine, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it shall be most holy to you.read more.
Exodus 25:6
Verse Concepts
oil for lighting, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
Exodus 35:8
Verse Concepts
and oil for lighting, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense,
Exodus 35:28
Verse Concepts
and the spice and the oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.
Exodus 39:38
Verse Concepts
and the gold altar, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the veil for the doorway of the tent;
Exodus 40:5
Verse Concepts
Moreover, you shall set the gold altar of incense before the ark of the testimony, and set up the veil for the doorway to the tabernacle.
Leviticus 2:1-2
‘Now when anyone presents a grain offering as an offering to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it. He shall then bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests; and shall take from it his handful of its fine flour and of its oil with all of its frankincense. And the priest shall offer it up in smoke as its memorial portion on the altar, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord.
Leviticus 6:15
Verse Concepts
Then one of them shall lift up from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering, with its oil and all the incense that is on the grain offering, and he shall offer it up in smoke on the altar, a soothing aroma, as its memorial offering to the Lord.
Leviticus 5:11
Verse Concepts
‘But if his means are insufficient for two turtledoves or two young pigeons, then for his offering for that which he has sinned, he shall bring the tenth of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall not put oil on it or place incense on it, for it is a sin offering.
Leviticus 16:12
Verse Concepts
He shall take a firepan full of coals of fire from upon the altar before the Lord and two handfuls of finely ground sweet incense, and bring it inside the veil.
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Exodus 30:7-8
“Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it; he shall burn it every morning when he trims the lamps. “When Aaron trims the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense. There shall be perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
Incense » Put on » Meat offerings
Leviticus 2:1-2
‘Now when anyone presents a grain offering as an offering to the LORD, his offering shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it. ‘He shall then bring it to Aaron’s sons the priests; and shall take from it his handful of its fine flour and of its oil with all of its frankincense And the priest shall offer it up in smoke as its memorial portion on the altar, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the LORD.
Leviticus 6:15
Verse Concepts
Then one of them shall lift up from it a handful of the fine flour of the grain offering, with its oil and all the incense that is on the grain offering, and he shall offer it up in smoke on the altar, a soothing aroma, as its memorial offering to the Lord.
Leviticus 2:15
Verse Concepts
You shall then put oil on it and lay incense on it; it is a grain offering.
Incense » Uses of
Numbers 16:40
Verse Concepts
as a reminder to the sons of Israel that no layman who is not of the descendants of Aaron should come near to burn incense before the Lord; so that he will not become like Korah and his company—just as the Lord had spoken to him through Moses.
Leviticus 16:12
Verse Concepts
He shall take a firepan full of coals of fire from upon the altar before the Lord and two handfuls of finely ground sweet incense, and bring it inside the veil.
Numbers 16:46
Verse Concepts
Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put in it fire from the altar, and lay incense on it; then bring it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone forth from the Lord, the plague has begun!”
Exodus 30:36-38
“You shall beat some of it very fine, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it shall be most holy to you. “The incense which you shall make, you shall not make in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for the LORD. “Whoever shall make any like it, to use as perfume, shall be cut off from his people.”
Numbers 16:17
Verse Concepts
Each of you take his firepan and put incense on it, and each of you bring his censer before the Lord, two hundred and fifty firepans; also you and Aaron shall each bring his firepan.”
More verses: Deuteronomy 33:10
Incense » Offered » In censers
Numbers 16:46
Verse Concepts
Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put in it fire from the altar, and lay incense on it; then bring it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone forth from the Lord, the plague has begun!”
Leviticus 10:1
Verse Concepts
Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective firepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on it and offered strange fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them.
Numbers 16:17
Verse Concepts
Each of you take his firepan and put incense on it, and each of you bring his censer before the Lord, two hundred and fifty firepans; also you and Aaron shall each bring his firepan.”
Incense » Illustrative of » Prayer
Revelation 5:8
Verse Concepts
When He had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Psalm 141:2
Verse Concepts
May my prayer be counted as incense before You;
The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.
Malachi 1:11
Verse Concepts
For from the rising of the sun even to its setting, My name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense is going to be offered to My name, and a grain offering that is pure; for My name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord of hosts.
Incense » Called frankincense
Song of Songs 4:14
Verse Concepts
Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon,
With all the trees of frankincense,
Myrrh and aloes, along with all the finest spices.
Song of Songs 4:6
Verse Concepts
“Until the cool of the day
When the shadows flee away,
I will go my way to the mountain of myrrh
And to the hill of frankincense.
Incense » On the golden altar
Exodus 40:27
and he burned fragrant incense on it, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Exodus 40:5
Verse Concepts
Moreover, you shall set the gold altar of incense before the ark of the testimony, and set up the veil for the doorway to the tabernacle.
2 Chronicles 2:4
Verse Concepts
Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the Lord my God, dedicating it to Him, to burn fragrant incense before Him and to set out the showbread continually, and to offer burnt offerings morning and evening, on sabbaths and on new moons and on the appointed feasts of the Lord our God, this being required forever in Israel.
Exodus 30:1-7
“Moreover, you shall make an altar as a place for burning incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. “Its length shall be a cubit, and its width a cubit, it shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits; its horns shall be of one piece with it. “You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and its sides all around, and its horns; and you shall make a gold molding all around for it. read more.
2 Chronicles 32:12
Verse Concepts
Has not the same Hezekiah taken away His high places and His altars, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, “You shall worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn incense”?
Incense » In making atonement
Luke 1:10
Verse Concepts
And the whole multitude of the people were in prayer outside at the hour of the incense offering.
Leviticus 16:12-13
“He shall take a firepan full of coals of fire from upon the altar before the LORD and two handfuls of finely ground sweet incense, and bring it inside the veil. “He shall put the incense on the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the ark of the testimony, otherwise he will die.
Numbers 16:46-47
Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put in it fire from the altar, and lay incense on it; then bring it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone forth from the LORD, the plague has begun!” Then Aaron took it as Moses had spoken, and ran into the midst of the assembly, for behold, the plague had begun among the people. So he put on the incense and made atonement for the people.
Incense » None but priest to offer
Numbers 16:40
Verse Concepts
as a reminder to the sons of Israel that no layman who is not of the descendants of Aaron should come near to burn incense before the Lord; so that he will not become like Korah and his company—just as the Lord had spoken to him through Moses.
Deuteronomy 33:10
Verse Concepts
“They shall teach Your ordinances to Jacob,
And Your law to Israel.
They shall put incense before You,
And whole burnt offerings on Your altar.
Incense » Offered » With fire » Altar of burnt-offering
Leviticus 16:12
Verse Concepts
He shall take a firepan full of coals of fire from upon the altar before the Lord and two handfuls of finely ground sweet incense, and bring it inside the veil.
Numbers 16:46
Verse Concepts
Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put in it fire from the altar, and lay incense on it; then bring it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone forth from the Lord, the plague has begun!”
Incense » Offered in idolatrous worship
Jeremiah 41:5
Verse Concepts
that eighty men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria with their beards shaved off and their clothes torn and their bodies gashed, having grain offerings and incense in their hands to bring to the house of the Lord.
Ezekiel 8:11
Verse Concepts
Standing in front of them were seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them, each man with his censer in his hand and the fragrance of the cloud of incense rising.
1 Kings 12:23
“Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin and to the rest of the people, saying,
Incense » For God’s service mixed with sweet spices
Exodus 37:29
Verse Concepts
And he made the holy anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense of spices, the work of a perfumer.
Exodus 25:6
Verse Concepts
oil for lighting, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
Incense » The jews » Not accepted in offering, on account of sin
Isaiah 66:3
Verse Concepts
“But he who kills an ox is like one who slays a man;
He who sacrifices a lamb is like the one who breaks a dog’s neck;
He who offers a grain offering is like one who offers swine’s blood;
He who burns incense is like the one who blesses an idol.
As they have chosen their own ways,
And their soul delights in their abominations,
Isaiah 1:13
Verse Concepts
“Bring your worthless offerings no longer,
Incense is an abomination to Me.
New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies—
I cannot endure iniquity and the solemn assembly.
Incense » Offered » On the altar of gold
Exodus 40:5
Verse Concepts
Moreover, you shall set the gold altar of incense before the ark of the testimony, and set up the veil for the doorway to the tabernacle.
Exodus 30:1
Verse Concepts
“Moreover, you shall make an altar as a place for burning incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.
Incense » Uzziah punished for offering
2 Chronicles 26:16-21
But when he became strong, his heart was so proud that he acted corruptly, and he was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense. Then Azariah the priest entered after him and with him eighty priests of the LORD, valiant men. They opposed Uzziah the king and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron who are consecrated to burn incense. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful and will have no honor from the LORD God.” read more.
Incense » Offered morning and evening
Exodus 30:7-8
“Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it; he shall burn it every morning when he trims the lamps. “When Aaron trims the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense. There shall be perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
2 Chronicles 13:11
Verse Concepts
Every morning and evening they burn to the Lord burnt offerings and fragrant incense, and the showbread is set on the clean table, and the golden lampstand with its lamps is ready to light every evening; for we keep the charge of the Lord our God, but you have forsaken Him.
Incense » Offered » By the high priest in the most holy place on the day of atonement
Leviticus 16:12-13
“He shall take a firepan full of coals of fire from upon the altar before the LORD and two handfuls of finely ground sweet incense, and bring it inside the veil. “He shall put the incense on the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the ark of the testimony, otherwise he will die.
Incense » The jews » Punished for offering, to idols
2 Chronicles 34:25
Because they have forsaken Me and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke Me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore My wrath will be poured out on this place and it shall not be quenched.”’
Incense » Levites had charge of
1 Chronicles 9:29
Verse Concepts
Some of them also were appointed over the furniture and over all the utensils of the sanctuary and over the fine flour and the wine and the oil and the frankincense and the spices.
Incense » Illustrative of » The merits of Christ
Revelation 8:3-4
Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a golden censer; and much incense was given to him, so that he might add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand.
Incense » Nadab and abihu destroyed for offering, with strange fire
Leviticus 10:1-2
Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective firepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on it and offered strange fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them. And fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.
Incense » Korah and his company punished for offering
Numbers 16:16-35
Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company be present before the LORD tomorrow, both you and they along with Aaron. “Each of you take his firepan and put incense on it, and each of you bring his censer before the LORD, two hundred and fifty firepans; also you and Aaron shall each bring his firepan.” So they each took his own censer and put fire on it, and laid incense on it; and they stood at the doorway of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron. read more.
Incense » Designed for atonement
Numbers 16:46-47
Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put in it fire from the altar, and lay incense on it; then bring it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone forth from the LORD, the plague has begun!” Then Aaron took it as Moses had spoken, and ran into the midst of the assembly, for behold, the plague had begun among the people. So he put on the incense and made atonement for the people.
Incense » An article of extensive commerce
Revelation 18:13
Verse Concepts
and cinnamon and spice and incense and perfume and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep, and cargoes of horses and chariots and slaves and human lives.
Incense » Receipt for mixing
Exodus 30:34-36
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take for yourself spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, spices with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each. “With it you shall make incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, and holy. “You shall beat some of it very fine, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it shall be most holy to you.
Incense » Used in idolatrous worship
Jeremiah 48:35
Verse Concepts
I will make an end of Moab,” declares the Lord, “the one who offers sacrifice on the high place and the one who burns incense to his gods.
Incense » Symbolical » Of the prayers of saints
Revelation 5:8
Verse Concepts
When He had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Revelation 8:3-4
Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a golden censer; and much incense was given to him, so that he might add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand.
Incense » Offered » Morning and evening
Exodus 30:7-8
“Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it; he shall burn it every morning when he trims the lamps. “When Aaron trims the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense. There shall be perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
Incense » Brought from sheba
Jeremiah 6:20
Verse Concepts
“For what purpose does frankincense come to Me from Sheba
And the sweet cane from a distant land?
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable
And your sacrifices are not pleasing to Me.”
Incense » By uzziah
2 Chronicles 26:16-21
But when he became strong, his heart was so proud that he acted corruptly, and he was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense. Then Azariah the priest entered after him and with him eighty priests of the LORD, valiant men. They opposed Uzziah the king and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron who are consecrated to burn incense. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful and will have no honor from the LORD God.” read more.
Incense » Presented to Christ by the wise men
Matthew 2:11
Verse Concepts
After coming into the house they saw the Child with Mary His mother; and they fell to the ground and worshiped Him. Then, opening their treasures, they presented to Him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Incense » The jews » Offered, to idols on altars of brick
Isaiah 65:3
Verse Concepts
A people who continually provoke Me to My face,
Offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks;
Incense » Offered » Perpetually
Exodus 30:8
Verse Concepts
When Aaron trims the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense. There shall be perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations.
Incense » Formula for compounding
Exodus 30:34-35
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take for yourself spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, spices with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each. “With it you shall make incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, and holy.
Incense » Korah, dathan, and abiram
Numbers 16:16-35
Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company be present before the LORD tomorrow, both you and they along with Aaron. “Each of you take his firepan and put incense on it, and each of you bring his censer before the LORD, two hundred and fifty firepans; also you and Aaron shall each bring his firepan.” So they each took his own censer and put fire on it, and laid incense on it; and they stood at the doorway of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron. read more.
Incense » Common, not to be offered to God
Exodus 30:9
Verse Concepts
You shall not offer any strange incense on this altar, or burnt offering or meal offering; and you shall not pour out a drink offering on it.
Incense » Offered by nadab and abihu in an unauthorized manner
Leviticus 10:1-2
Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective firepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on it and offered strange fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them. And fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD.
Incense » The jews prayed at time of offering
Luke 1:10
Verse Concepts
And the whole multitude of the people were in prayer outside at the hour of the incense offering.
Incense » Figurative » Of praise
Malachi 1:11
Verse Concepts
For from the rising of the sun even to its setting, My name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense is going to be offered to My name, and a grain offering that is pure; for My name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord of hosts.
Incense » Figurative » Of prayer
Psalm 141:2
Verse Concepts
May my prayer be counted as incense before You;
The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.
Incense » Compounded by bezaleel
Exodus 37:29
Verse Concepts
And he made the holy anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense of spices, the work of a perfumer.
Incense » By priests
1 Chronicles 9:30
Verse Concepts
Some of the sons of the priests prepared the mixing of the spices.
Incense » Offering of, allotted to the priests
Luke 1:9
Verse Concepts
according to the custom of the priestly office, he was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
Incense » Figurative » Of an acceptable sacrifice
Ephesians 5:2
Verse Concepts
and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.
Incense » Presented by the wise men to jesus
Matthew 2:11
Verse Concepts
After coming into the house they saw the Child with Mary His mother; and they fell to the ground and worshiped Him. Then, opening their treasures, they presented to Him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
Meat offerings » Used with » Oil » Incense
Leviticus 2:4
Verse Concepts
‘Now when you bring an offering of a grain offering baked in an oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers spread with oil.
Leviticus 2:1
Verse Concepts
‘Now when anyone presents a grain offering as an offering to the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it.
Leviticus 2:15
Verse Concepts
You shall then put oil on it and lay incense on it; it is a grain offering.
Offerings » Different kinds of » Incense
Exodus 30:8
Verse Concepts
When Aaron trims the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense. There shall be perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations.
Malachi 1:11
Verse Concepts
For from the rising of the sun even to its setting, My name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense is going to be offered to My name, and a grain offering that is pure; for My name will be great among the nations,” says the Lord of hosts.
Luke 1:9
Verse Concepts
according to the custom of the priestly office, he was chosen by lot to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
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Exodus 37:25
Verse Concepts
Then he made the altar of incense of acacia wood: a cubit long and a cubit wide, square, and two cubits high; its horns were of one piece with it.
Incense Offered Amiss
Exodus 30:9
Verse Concepts
You shall not offer any strange incense on this altar, or burnt offering or meal offering; and you shall not pour out a drink offering on it.
No Incense
Leviticus 26:30
Verse Concepts
I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.