Thematic Bible: Of memorial
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Pillars » Of memorial » To commemorate remarkable events
And Moses wrote all the Words of Jehovah, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar below the mountain and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
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so that all the people of the earth might know the hand of Jehovah is mighty, and so that you might fear Jehovah your God forever.
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And those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, were raised by Joshua in Gilgal.
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Pillars » Of memorial » In honor of idols
But you shall deal with them in this way: you shall destroy their altars and break down their images, and cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire.
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You shall make no idols to yourselves; and you shall not set up for yourselves graven images, or a memorial pillar. And you shall not set up any image of stone in your land in order to bow down to it. For I am Jehovah your God.
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Pillars » Of memorial » To witness vows
And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone which he had put at his head, and set it as a memorial pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.
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I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar, where you vowed a vow to Me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your kindred.
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Pillars » Of memorial » Often anointed
And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone which he had put at his head, and set it as a memorial pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.
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I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar, where you vowed a vow to Me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your kindred.
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Pillars » Of memorial » Sometimes of a heap of stones
And those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, were raised by Joshua in Gilgal.
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And the sons of Israel did as Joshua commanded. And they took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as Jehovah spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where they stayed, and laid them down there; even the twelve stones Joshua lifted up in the middle of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant, stood. And they are there to this day.
Pillars » Of memorial » To perpetuate names
And Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a 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 until this day, Absalom's monument.
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Pillars » Of memorial » To mark the graves of the dead
And Jacob set up a pillar upon her grave. That 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 which he had put at his head, and set it as a memorial pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.
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Pillars » Of memorial » To witness covenants
This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you shall not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
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Pillars » Of memorial » Often had inscriptions
Oh that they were cut with an iron pen and lead in the rock forever!
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