23 Bible Verses about Lamps

“Make seven lamps on it. Its lamps are to be set up so they illuminate the area in front of it.

“You are to make a lampstand out of pure, hammered gold. It is to be made of one piece: its base and shaft, its ornamental cups, and its calyxes and petals.

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
Does disaster come on them?
Does He apportion destruction in His anger?

Yes, the light of the wicked is extinguished;
the flame of his fire does not glow.

The light of the righteous shines brightly,
but the lamp of the wicked is put out.

His body was like topaz, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and feet like the gleam of polished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.

His head and hair were white like wool—white as snow—and His eyes like a fiery flame.

נ NunYour word is a lamp for my feet
and a light on my path.

For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light,
and corrective discipline is the way to life.

But because of David, the Lord his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem to raise up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem.

I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city I chose for Myself to put My name there.

Lord, You light my lamp;
my God illuminates my darkness.

Lord, You are my lamp;
the Lord illuminates my darkness.

I will not keep silent because of Zion,
and I will not keep still because of Jerusalem,
until her righteousness shines like a bright light
and her salvation, like a flaming torch.

When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the divided animals.

When the foolish took their lamps, they didn’t take olive oil with them.

But the foolish ones said to the sensible ones, ‘Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are going out.’

The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from heaven. It fell on a third of the rivers and springs of water.

Whoever curses his father or mother—
his lamp will go out in deep darkness.

Flashes of lightning and rumblings of thunder came from the throne. Seven fiery torches were burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God.

The Lord’s lamp sheds light on a person’s life,
searching the innermost parts.

But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to his aid, struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him: “You must never again go out with us to battle. You must not extinguish the lamp of Israel.”

She sees that her profits are good,
and her lamp never goes out at night.

When the sun had set and it was dark, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the divided animals.

He asked me, “What do you see?”

I replied, “I see a solid gold lampstand there with a bowl on its top. It has seven lamps on it and seven channels for each of the lamps on its top.

“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like 10 virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the groom.

“Make seven lamps on it. Its lamps are to be set up so they illuminate the area in front of it.

The form of the living creatures was like the appearance of burning coals of fire and torches. Fire was moving back and forth between the living creatures; it was bright, with lightning coming out of it.

No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, but rather on a lampstand, and it gives light for all who are in the house.

“Then all those virgins got up and trimmed their lamps.

But the sensible ones took oil in their flasks with their lamps.

So we have the prophetic word strongly confirmed. You will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dismal place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

The shields of his warriors are dyed red; the valiant men are dressed in scarlet. The fittings of the chariot flash like fire on the day of its [battle] preparations, and the spears are brandished. The chariots dash madly through the streets; they rush around in the plazas. They look like torches; they dart back and forth like lightning.

Then he divided the 300 men into three companies and gave each of the men a trumpet in one hand and an empty pitcher with a torch inside it in the other.

when His lamp shone above my head, and I walked through darkness by His light! [I would be] as I was in the days of my youth when God's friendship rested on my tent,

So Judas took a company of soldiers and some temple police from the chief priests and the Pharisees and came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

There were many lamps in the room upstairs where we were assembled,

John was a burning and shining lamp, and for a time you were willing to enjoy his light.

John was a burning and shining lamp, and for a time you were willing to enjoy his light.