Thematic Bible: Of memorial
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Pillars » Of memorial » To commemorate remarkable events
And Moses wrote all the words of LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar below the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
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that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of LORD, that it is mighty, that ye may fear LORD your God forever.
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And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
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Pillars » Of memorial » In honor of idols
But thus shall ye deal with them: Ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with fire.
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Ye shall make for you no idols. Neither shall ye rear up for you a graven image, or a pillar. Neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it. For I am LORD your God.
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Pillars » Of memorial » To witness vows
And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
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I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointed a pillar, where thou vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get thee out from this land, and return to the land of thy nativity.
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Pillars » Of memorial » Often anointed
And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
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I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointed a pillar, where thou vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get thee out from this land, and return to the land of thy nativity.
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Pillars » Of memorial » Sometimes of a heap of stones
And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
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And the sons of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as LORD spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel, and they carried them over with them And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood, and they are there to this day.
Pillars » Of memorial » To perpetuate names
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king's valley, for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance. And he called the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absa
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Pillars » Of memorial » To mark the graves of the dead
And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave, the same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.
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Pillars » Of memorial » Sometimes of a single stone
And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
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Pillars » Of memorial » To witness covenants
This heap is witness, and the pillar is witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shall not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
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Pillars » Of memorial » Often had inscriptions
that they were engraved in the rock forever with an iron pen and lead!
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