Thematic Bible: Pillar of


Thematic Bible



When he was alive, Absalom had set up a pillar for himself in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name. It is still called Absalom’s Monument today.






But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has let King Nebuchadnezzar know what will happen in the last days. Your dream and the visions that came into your mind as you lay in bed were these:

God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he pleads with God against Israel?

The past events have indeed happened.
Now I declare new events;
I announce them to you before they occur.”





Should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot distinguish between their right and their left, as well as many animals?”

But to Israel he says: All day long I have spread out My hands to a disobedient and defiant people.

Then he said, “Let the Lord not be angry, and I will speak one more time. Suppose 10 are found there?”

He answered, “I will not destroy it on account of 10.”





This is what the Lord says:

Heaven is My throne,
and earth is My footstool.
What house could you possibly build for Me?
And what place could be My home?

or by the earth, because it is His footstool; or by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the great King.


Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brothers and my people. It was in my heart to build a house as a resting place for the ark of the Lord’s covenant and as a footstool for our God. I had made preparations to build,

Heaven is My throne,
and earth My footstool.
What sort of house will you build for Me?
says the Lord,
or what is My resting place?


I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock.


The Lord their God will save them on that day
as the flock of His people;
for they are like jewels in a crown,
sparkling over His land.



Remember Lot’s wife!



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