Is the use fo incense Biblically based?

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  1. Exodus 25:6

    [Ex 27:20] oil for lighting, [Ex 30:23] spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

    Exodus 25:5-7 (in Context) Exodus 25 (Whole Chapter)
  2. Exodus 30:1

    [ The Altar of Incense ] "Moreover, you shall make [Ex 37:25-29] an altar as a place for burning incense; you shall make it of acacia wood.

    Exodus 30:1-3 (in Context) Exodus 30 (Whole Chapter)
  3. Exodus 30:7

    "Aaron shall burn fragrant incense on it; he shall burn it every morning when he trims the lamps.

    Exodus 30:6-8 (in Context) Exodus 30 (Whole Chapter)
  4. Exodus 30:8

    "When Aaron trims the lamps at twilight, he shall burn incense. There shall be perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.

    Exodus 30:7-9 (in Context) Exodus 30 (Whole Chapter)
  5. Exodus 30:9

    "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.

    Exodus 30:8-10 (in Context) Exodus 30 (Whole Chapter)
  6. Exodus 30:27

    and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,

    Exodus 30:26-28 (in Context) Exodus 30 (Whole Chapter)
  7. Exodus 30:34

    [ The Incense ] 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.

    Exodus 30:33-35 (in Context) Exodus 30 (Whole Chapter)
  8. Exodus 30:35

    "With it you shall make incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, and holy.

    Exodus 30:34-36 (in Context) Exodus 30 (Whole Chapter)
  9. Exodus 30:37

    "The incense which you shall make, [Ex 30:32] you shall not make in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for the LORD.

    Exodus 30:36-38 (in Context) Exodus 30 (Whole Chapter)
  10. Exodus 31:8

    [Ex 37:10-16] the table also and its utensils, and the [Ex 37:17-24; Lev 24:4] pure gold lampstand with all its utensils, and [Ex 37:25-29] the altar of incense,

    Exodus 31:7-9 (in Context) Exodus 31 (Whole Chapter)
  11. · Exodus 31:11

    [Ex 30:23-32] the anointing oil also, and the [Ex 30:34-38] fragrant incense for the holy place, they are to make them according to all that I have commanded you."

    Exodus 31:10-12 (in Context) Exodus 31 (Whole Chapter)
  12. · Exodus 35:8

    and oil for lighting, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense,

    Exodus 35:7-9 (in Context) Exodus 35 (Whole Chapter)
  13. · Exodus 35:15

    and the [Ex 30:1-6] altar of incense and its poles, and the [Ex 30:25] anointing oil and the [Ex 30:34-38] fragrant incense, and the screen for the doorway at the entrance of the tabernacle;

    Exodus 35:14-16 (in Context) Exodus 35 (Whole Chapter)
  14. · Exodus 35:28

    and [Ex 30:23-ff] the spice and the oil for the light and for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense.

    Exodus 35:27-29 (in Context) Exodus 35 (Whole Chapter)
  15. · Exodus 37:25

    [Ex 30:1-5] 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.

    Exodus 37:24-26 (in Context) Exodus 37 (Whole Chapter)
  16. · Exodus 37:29

    [Ex 30:23-25, 34, 35] And he made the holy anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense of spices, the work of a perfumer.

    Exodus 37:28-30 (in Context) Exodus 37 (Whole Chapter)
  17. · Exodus 39:38

    and the gold altar, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the veil for the doorway of the tent;

    Exodus 39:37-39 (in Context) Exodus 39 (Whole Chapter)
  18. · Exodus 40:5

    "Moreover, you shall [Ex 40:26] set the gold altar of incense before the ark of the testimony, and set up the veil for the doorway to the tabernacle.

    Exodus 40:4-6 (in Context) Exodus 40 (Whole Chapter)
  19. · Exodus 40:27

    and he [Ex 30:7] burned fragrant incense on it, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

    Exodus 40:26-28 (in Context) Exodus 40 (Whole Chapter)
 
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·[font=&quot] Numbers 16:7
and put fire in them, and lay incense upon them in the presence of the LORD tomorrow; and the man whom the LORD chooses shall be the one who is holy. [Num 16:3] You have gone far enough, you sons of Levi!"
Numbers 16:6-8 (in Context) Numbers 16 (Whole Chapter) [/font]
 
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  • · Numbers 16:17
    "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."
    Numbers 16:16-18 (in Context) Numbers 16 (Whole Chapter)
  • · Numbers 16:18
    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.
    Numbers 16:17-19 (in Context) Numbers 16 (Whole Chapter)
  • · Numbers 16:35
    [Num 11:1-3; 26:10] Fire also came forth from the LORD and consumed the [Num 16:2] two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense.
    Numbers 16:34-36 (in Context) Numbers 16 (Whole Chapter)
  • · Numbers 16:40
    as a reminder to the sons of Israel that [Num 1:51] no layman who is not of the descendants of Aaron should come near [Ex 30:7-10] 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.
    Numbers 16:39-41 (in Context) Numbers 16 (Whole Chapter)
  • · Numbers 16:46
    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 [Num 25:13; Is 6:6, 7] make atonement for them, for [Num 18:5; Deut 9:22] wrath has gone forth from the LORD, the plague has begun!"
    Numbers 16:45-47 (in Context) Numbers 16 (Whole Chapter)
  • · Numbers 16:47
    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. [Num 25:6-8, 13] So he put on the incense and made atonement for the people.
    Numbers 16:46-48 (in Context) Numbers 16 (Whole Chapter)
  • · Deuteronomy 33:10
    " [Lev 10:11; Deut 31:9-13] They shall teach Your ordinances to Jacob,And Your law to Israel [Lev 16:12, 13] They shall put incense before You,And [Ps 51:19] whole burnt offerings on Your altar.
    Deuteronomy 33:9-11 (in Context) Deuteronomy 33 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 1 Samuel 2:28
    ' [Ex 28:1-4; 30:7, 8; Lev 8:7, 8] 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 [Lev 7:35, 36] give to the house of your father all the fire offerings of the sons of Israel?
    1 Samuel 2:27-29 (in Context) 1 Samuel 2 (Whole Chapter)
 
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  • · 1 Kings 3:3
    Now [Deut 6:5; 10:12, 13; 11:13; 30:16; Ps 31:23; 145:20; 1 Cor 8:3] Solomon loved the LORD, [1 Kin 2:3; 9:4; 11:4, 6, 38] walking in the statutes of his father David, except he sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
    1 Kings 3:2-4 (in Context) 1 Kings 3 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 1 Kings 9:25
    Now [Ex 23:14-17; Deut 16:16] three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to the LORD, burning incense with them on the altar which was before the LORD. So he finished the house.
    1 Kings 9:24-26 (in Context) 1 Kings 9 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 1 Kings 11:8
    Thus also he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
    1 Kings 11:7-9 (in Context) 1 Kings 11 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 1 Kings 12:33
    Then he went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had [Num 15:39] devised in his own heart; and he instituted a feast for the sons of Israel and went up to the altar [1 Kin 13:1] to burn incense.
    1 Kings 12:32-34 (in Context) 1 Kings 12 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 1 Kings 13:1
    [ Jeroboam Warned, Stricken ] Now behold, there came [1 Kin 12:22; 2 Kin 23:17] a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD, while Jeroboam was standing by the altar [1 Kin 12:33] to burn incense.
    1 Kings 13:1-3 (in Context) 1 Kings 13 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 1 Kings 13:2
    [1 Kin 13:32] He cried against the altar by the word of the LORD, and said, "O altar, altar, thus says the LORD, 'Behold, a son shall be born to the house of David, [2 Kin 23:15, 16] Josiah by name; and on you he shall sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and human bones shall be burned on you.'"
    1 Kings 13:1-3 (in Context) 1 Kings 13 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 1 Kings 22:43
    [2 Chr 17:3] He walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the sight of the LORD [1 Kin 15:14; 2 Kin 12:3] However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.
    1 Kings 22:42-44 (in Context) 1 Kings 22 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 2 Kings 12:3
    Only [2 Kin 14:4; 15:35] the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
    2 Kings 12:2-4 (in Context) 2 Kings 12 (Whole Chapter)
 
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  • · 2 Kings 14:4

    Only [2 Kin 12:3] the high places were not taken away; [2 Kin 16:4] the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

    2 Kings 14:3-5 (in Context) 2 Kings 14 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 2 Kings 15:4

    Only [2 Kin 12:3] the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

    2 Kings 15:3-5 (in Context) 2 Kings 15 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 2 Kings 15:35

    Only [2 Kin 12:3] the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places [2 Chr 23:20; 27:3] He built the upper gate of the house of the LORD.

    2 Kings 15:34-36 (in Context) 2 Kings 15 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 2 Kings 16:4

    He [Deut 12:2; 2 Kin 14:4] sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

    2 Kings 16:3-5 (in Context) 2 Kings 16 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 2 Kings 17:11

    and there they burned incense on all the high places as the nations did which the LORD had carried away to exile before them; and they did evil things provoking the LORD.

    2 Kings 17:10-12 (in Context) 2 Kings 17 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 2 Kings 18:4

    [2 Kin 18:22; 2 Chr 31:1] He removed the high places and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the [I e a wooden symbol of a female deity] Asherah He also broke in pieces [Num 21:8, 9] the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until those days the sons of Israel burned incense to it; and it was called [I.e. a piece of bronze] Nehushtan.

    2 Kings 18:3-5 (in Context) 2 Kings 18 (Whole Chapter)
 
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  • · 2 Kings 22:17







    " [Deut 29:25, 26; 2 Kin 21:22] Because they have forsaken Me and have burned incense to other gods that they might provoke Me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore My wrath burns against this place, and it shall not be quenched."'







    2 Kings 22:16-18 (in Context) 2 Kings 22 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 2 Kings 23:5







    He did away with the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had appointed to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the surrounding area of Jerusalem, also those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and to the moon and to the constellations and to all the [2 Kin 21:3] host of heaven.







    2 Kings 23:4-6 (in Context) 2 Kings 23 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 2 Kings 23:8







    Then he brought all the priests from the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from [Josh 21:17; 1 Kin 15:22] Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates which were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one's left at the city gate.







    2 Kings 23:7-9 (in Context) 2 Kings 23 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 1 Chronicles 6:49







    But Aaron and his sons [Ex 27:1-8] offered on the altar of burnt offering and [Ex 30:1-7] on the altar of incense, for all the work of the most holy place, and [Ex 30:10-16] to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.







    1 Chronicles 6:48-50 (in Context) 1 Chronicles 6 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 1 Chronicles 23:13







    [Ex 6:20] The sons of Amram were Aaron and Moses And [Ex 28:1] Aaron was set apart to sanctify him as most holy, he and his sons forever, [Ex 30:6-10] to burn incense before the LORD, to minister to Him and to bless in His name forever.







    1 Chronicles 23:12-14 (in Context) 1 Chronicles 23 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 1 Chronicles 28:18







    and for [Ex 30:1-10] the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the model of the chariot, even [Ex 25:18-22] the cherubim that spread out their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD.







    1 Chronicles 28:17-19 (in Context) 1 Chronicles 28 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 2 Chronicles 2:4







    "Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of the LORD my God, dedicating it to Him, [Ex 30:7] to burn fragrant incense before Him and to set out [Ex 25:30] the showbread continually, and to offer [Ex 29:38-42] burnt offerings morning and evening, [Num 28:9, 10] on sabbaths and on new moons and on the appointed feasts of the LORD our God, this being required forever in Israel.







    2 Chronicles 2:3-5 (in Context) 2 Chronicles 2 (Whole Chapter)
 
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  • · 2 Chronicles 2:6

    "But [1 Kin 8:27; 2 Chr 6:18] who is able to build a house for Him, for the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain Him? So who am I, that I should build a house for Him, except to [Lit offer up in smoke] burn incense before Him?

    2 Chronicles 2:5-7 (in Context) 2 Chronicles 2 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 2 Chronicles 13:11

    "Every morning and evening [Ex 29:38; 2 Chr 2:4] they burn to the LORD burnt offerings and fragrant incense, and [Ex 25:30-39; Lev 24:5-9] 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.

    2 Chronicles 13:10-12 (in Context) 2 Chronicles 13 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 2 Chronicles 14:5

    He also removed the high places and the [2 Chr 34:4, 7] incense altars from all the cities of Judah. And the kingdom was undisturbed under him.

    2 Chronicles 14:4-6 (in Context) 2 Chronicles 14 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 2 Chronicles 25:14

    [ Amaziah Rebuked for Idolatry ] Now after Amaziah came from slaughtering the Edomites, [2 Chr 28:23] he brought the gods of the sons of Seir, set them up as his gods, bowed down before them and burned incense to them.

    2 Chronicles 25:13-15 (in Context) 2 Chronicles 25 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 2 Chronicles 26:16

    [ Pride Is Uzziah's Undoing ] But [Deut 32:15; 2 Chr 25:19] when he became strong, his heart was so proud that he acted corruptly, and he was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for [1 Kin 13:1-4] he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

    2 Chronicles 26:15-17 (in Context) 2 Chronicles 26 (Whole Chapter)
  • · 2 Chronicles 26:18

    [2 Chr 19:2] They opposed Uzziah the king and said to him, " [Num 3:10; 16:39, 40] It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the LORD, [Ex 30:7, 8] 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."

    2 Chronicles 26:17-19 (in Context) 2 Chronicles 26 (Whole Chapter)
 
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It goes on and on, finally ending ...

119 Revelation 8:3
[Rev 7:2] Another angel came and stood at the [Amos 9:1; Rev 6:9] altar, holding a [Heb 9:4] golden censer; and much [Ex 30:1; Rev 5:8] incense was given to him, so that he might add it to the [Ex 30:1; Rev 5:8] prayers of all the saints on the [Ex 30:3; Num 4:11; Rev 8:5; 9:13] golden altar which was before the throne.
Revelation 8:2-4 (in Context) Revelation 8 (Whole Chapter)

120 Revelation 8:4
And [Ps 141:2] the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel's hand.
Revelation 8:3-5 (in Context) Revelation 8 (Whole Chapter)

121 Revelation 18:13
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 [1 Chr 5:21; Ezek 27:13; 1 Tim 1:10] human lives.
Revelation 18:12-14 (in Context) Revelation 18 (Whole Chapter)
 
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So, having dug up all these references, now what?

Would you infer from the readings that incense is required? (And if yes, then so would praying in Hebrew, fire on the altar and possibly animal sacrifice.)

Or did you just have a bunch of time on your hands? :)

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