Thematic Bible: Characterized by
Thematic Bible
Brass » Characterized by » Fusibility
As they gather silver and copper and iron and lead and tin into the furnace to blow fire on it in order to melt it, so I will gather you in my anger and in my wrath and I will lay you there and melt (liquefy) you.
Son of man, the house of Israel has become dross to me. All of them are the copper, tin, iron and lead in the furnace. They are the dross of silver.
Brass » Characterized by » Sonorousness
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and do not have love, I have become like loud sounding brass, or a clashing cymbal.
Brass » Characterized by » Hardness
I will crush your arrogance. You will have no rain, and your land will be as hard as cement.
Brass » Characterized by » Yellow color
And twenty gold basins, of a thousand darics, and two vessels of the best bright brass, equal in value to gold.
Brass » Characterized by » Strength
Camels » Characterized by » Its docility
He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at evening time. This is the time when women go out to draw water.
Camels » Characterized by » The bunches on its back
THE PROPHESY ABOUT THE BEASTS OF THE NEGEV (southern land): The Negev is a land of distress and anguish. Lions and lionesses live there. Vipers and poisonous snakes live there. They carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels to a nation that cannot help them.
The Dead » Characterized by » Being incapable of motion
When I saw him, I fell as dead at his feet. He laid his right hand on me and said: Do not fear. I am the first and the last:
The Dead » Characterized by » Ignorance of all human affairs
The living know that they will die! The dead do not know anything. They do not have any more reward. Their memory is forgotten.
The Dead » Characterized by » Absence of all human passions
Their love, their hatred, and their envy, is now gone, perished! They do not share anything that is done under the sun.
The Dead » Characterized by » Inability to glorify God
Those who are dead do not praise Jehovah, nor do those who go into the silence of the grave.
The Dead » Characterized by » Being without the spirit
Just as the body without the spirit is dead; even so faith without works is dead.
Doves » Characterized by » Comeliness of countenance
O my dove, you are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs. Let me see your countenance. Let me hear your voice. For sweet is your voice, and your countenance is lovely.
Doves » Characterized by » Sweetness of voice
O my dove, you are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs. Let me see your countenance. Let me hear your voice. For sweet is your voice, and your countenance is lovely.
Doves » Characterized by » Softness of eyes
(The Beloved) Behold, you are fair, my love. Behold, you are fair. You have doves' eyes.
Doves » Characterized by » Simplicity
I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.
Doves » Characterized by » Richness of plumage
Though you stayed among the sheep pens, you will be like the wings of a dove covered with silver, its feathers with yellow gold.
Righteousness » Saints » Characterized by
Surely you would not do that! Would you slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be as the wicked? Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
Therefore the wicked will not stand (be upright) in the judgment. The sinners will not stand (endure) in the assembly of the righteous. Jehovah knows (is fully aware of) the way of the righteous. But the way of the wicked will perish.
Seeking God » Saints » Characterized by
This is the person who seeks him, who searches for the face of the God of Jacob.
Summer » Characterized by » Excessive heat
For he will be like a tree planted by the water. It extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes. Its leaves will be green. It will not be anxious in a year of drought nor cease to yield fruit.
Summer » Characterized by » Excessive drought
Day and night your hand lay heavily on me. My strength drained in the summer heat.