Thematic Bible: Memorial Pillars


Thematic Bible



Now Absalom, before his death, had put up for himself a pillar in the king's valley, naming it after himself; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: and to this day it is named Absalom's pillar.

And early in the morning Jacob took the stone which had been under his head, and put it up as a pillar and put oil on it.

And Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been talking with God, and put a drink offering on it, and oil.

Then Samuel took a stone and put it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah, naming it Eben-ezer, and saying, Up to now the Lord has been our help.

Then Jacob took a stone and put it up as a pillar.


Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the house of my God, and he will go out no more: and I will put on him the name of my God, and the name of the town of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.

For see, this day have I made you a walled town, and an iron pillar, and walls of brass, against all the land, against the kings of Judah, against its captains, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

When they saw the grace which was given to me, James and Cephas and John, who had the name of being pillars, gave to me and Barnabas their right hands as friends so that we might go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision;


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain