11 Bible Verses about Candles

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Matthew 5:15

nor do they light a lamp and place it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it shines on all those in the house.

Nehemiah 9:11-13

And you divided the sea before them, and they passed through the sea on dry ground, but their pursuers you threw into the depths like a stone into mighty waters. You led them by day with a column of cloud and with a column of fire by night, to give them light on the way that they were to go. Then you came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right judgments and true teachings, good regulations and commandments.

Psalm 18:28

For you light my lamp; Yahweh, my God, lights up my darkness.

Luke 11:33-35

"No one [after] lighting a lamp puts [it] in a cellar or under a bushel basket, but on a lampstand, so that those who come in can see the light. Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is sincere, your whole body is full of light also. But when it is evil, your body [is] dark also. Therefore pay careful attention [that] the light in you is not darkness!

Genesis 15:17

And after the sun had gone down and it [was] dusk, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch passed between those half pieces.

Exodus 25:31-40

"And you will make a lampstand of pure gold; the lampstand will be made of hammered work--its base and its branch, its cups, its buds, and its blossoms will be from it. And six branches [will be] going out from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its second side. Three almond-flower cups [will be] on the one branch [with] a bud and a blossom, and three almond-flower cups [will be] on the one branch [with] a bud and a blossom--likewise for the six branches going out from the lampstand.read more.
And on the lampstand [will be] four almond-flower cups, [with] its buds and its blossoms. And a bud [will be] under the two branches [that come] from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, and a bud under the two branches from it, [likewise] for the six branches coming out from the lampstand. Their buds and their branches will be from it, all of it one [piece] of pure gold hammered work. And you will make its seven lamps, and its lamps will be set up, and it will give light {in the space in front of it}. And its snuffers and its fire pans [will be] pure gold. It will be made [from] a talent of pure gold, with all these [pieces of] equipment. And see and make [all] according to their pattern, which you were shown in the mountain.

Exodus 27:20

"And you will command the {Israelites}, and they will bring to you pure, beaten olive oil for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.

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