Thematic Bible: Painting


Thematic Bible



Who says, ‘I will build myself a roomy house
With spacious upper rooms,
And cut out its windows,
Paneling it with cedar and painting it bright red.’
Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofArtHousesPresumptuous PlansCedar WoodSpacious Place

And you, O desolate one, what will you do?
Although you dress in scarlet,
Although you decorate yourself with ornaments of gold,
Although you enlarge your eyes with paint,
In vain you make yourself beautiful.
Your lovers despise you;
They seek your life.
Verse ConceptsCrimsonAdornment, Of WomenGoldCosmeticsRed ClothesUseless LabourAttempting To KillWearing Jewelleryloversmakeup

“Furthermore, they have even sent for men who come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and lo, they came—for whom you bathed, painted your eyes and decorated yourselves with ornaments; Verse ConceptsBathing, For RefreshmentOrnamentsCosmeticsEyes Cared ForWearing Jewellerycatsjewelrymakeup

When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out the window. Verse ConceptsBad InfluenceFacesHairsCosmeticsLooking Through Windowsartistsjezebelmakeup

So she increased her harlotries. And she saw men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion, Verse ConceptsPortraitsGrowth Of EvilSpiritual Harlotry