What Does the Bible Say About Beans?

Ezekiel 4:9 ESV / 51 helpful votes

“And you, take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and emmer, and put them into a single vessel and make your bread from them. During the number of days that you lie on your side, 390 days, you shall eat it.

2 Samuel 17:28 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, wheat, barley, flour, parched grain, beans and lentils,

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 29 helpful votes

And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

Genesis 9:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.

Genesis 3:1-5 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

John 3:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Daniel 1:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes

But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.

Leviticus 11:1-47 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. ...

Daniel 1:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes

“Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...

Daniel 1:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And the chief of the eunuchs gave them names: Daniel he called Belteshazzar, Hananiah he called Shadrach, Mishael he called Meshach, and Azariah he called Abednego.

Daniel 1:8-16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself. And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs, and the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who assigned your food and your drink; for why should he see that you were in worse condition than the youths who are of your own age? So you would endanger my head with the king.” Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had assigned over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, “Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink. ...

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Daniel 1:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes

At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king's food.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Daniel 1:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Among these were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah of the tribe of Judah.

1 Samuel 17:28 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”

Genesis 1:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 3:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

Luke 15:11-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. ...

Matthew 12:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Daniel 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And God gave Daniel favor and compassion in the sight of the chief of the eunuchs,

Ezekiel 4:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never defiled myself. From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth.”

Deuteronomy 14:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“You shall not eat any abomination.

Leviticus 11:39 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“And if any animal which you may eat dies, whoever touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening,

Exodus 22:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“You shall be consecrated to me. Therefore you shall not eat any flesh that is torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.

Ezekiel 4:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And the Lord said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them.”

Ruth 2:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And at mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here and eat some bread and dip your morsel in the wine.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her roasted grain. And she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over.

Leviticus 11:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you.

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Genesis 1:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

John 3:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Daniel 1:18-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

At the end of the time, when the king had commanded that they should be brought in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. And the king spoke with them, and among all of them none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore they stood before the king. And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.

Daniel 1:1-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god. Then the king commanded Ashpenaz, his chief eunuch, to bring some of the people of Israel, both of the royal family and of the nobility, youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king's palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans. The king assigned them a daily portion of the food that the king ate, and of the wine that he drank. They were to be educated for three years, and at the end of that time they were to stand before the king. ...

Ezekiel 4:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Moreover, he said to me, “Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.

Isaiah 28:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, sow cumin, and put in wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and emmer as the border?

Isaiah 25:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.

1 Samuel 25:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

Psalm 104:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind;

Mark 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now John was clothed with camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist and ate locusts and wild honey.

Matthew 12:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

How he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

Matthew 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now John wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Daniel 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with some of the vessels of the house of God. And he brought them to the land of Shinar, to the house of his god, and placed the vessels in the treasury of his god.

2 Samuel 17:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now therefore send quickly and tell David, ‘Do not stay tonight at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.’”

Ruth 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan of Elimelech.

Leviticus 11:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

49 Bible Verses about Beans

Ezekiel 4:9 ESV / 51 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Samuel 17:28 ESV / 38 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 9:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 3:1-5 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 1:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 11:1-47 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 1:12 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 1:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 1:8-16 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 1:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 1:6 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 17:28 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 15:11-32 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 12:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 4:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 14:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 11:39 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 22:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 4:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ruth 2:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 11:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 1:18-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 1:1-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 4:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 28:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 25:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 25:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 104:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 12:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 3:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Samuel 17:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ruth 2:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 11:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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