Anointing

“You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.”

“Therefore wash yourself, put on perfume, and wear your best clothes. Go down to the threshing floor, but do not let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.”

“In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.”

“But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.”

“wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil that makes his face to shine, and bread that sustains his heart.”

“Let the righteous man strike me; let his rebuke be an act of loving devotion. It is oil for my head; let me not refuse it. For my prayer is ever against the deeds of the wicked.”

“Oil and incense bring joy to the heart, and the sweetness of a friend is counsel to the soul.”

“restraining her is like holding back the wind or grasping oil with one’s right hand.”