11 Bible Verses about Candles
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neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it lighteth all them that are in the house.
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill, cannot be hid,
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father which is in heaven.
And the reed sea didst thou divide in sunder before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea dry-shoed: and their persecutors threwest thou into the deep as a stone, in the mighty waters; and leddest them in the daytime in a cloudy pillar; and on the night season in a pillar of fire, to show them light in the way that they went. Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest unto them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, true laws, good commandments and statutes,
Thou also shalt light my candle; the LORD my God shall make my darkness to be light. {TYNDALE: Thou art my light, O LORD, and the LORD shall light my darkness.}
"No man lighteth a candle, and putteth it in a privy place, neither under a bushel: But on a candlestick, that they that come in, may see the light. The light of thy body is the eye. Therefore, when thine eye is single: then is all thy body full of light. But if thine eye be evil: then shall all thy body also be full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee, be not darkness.
When the sun was down and it was waxed dark, behold, there was a smoking furnace and a fire brand that went between the said pieces.
"And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure thick gold with his shaft, branches, bowls, knops and flowers proceeding thereout. Six branches shall proceed out of the sides of the candlestick, three out of the one side and three out of the other. And there shall be three cups like unto almonds with knops and flowers upon every one of the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick;read more.
and in the candlestick self, four cups like unto almonds with their knops and flowers: that there be a knop under every two branches of the six that proceed out of the candlestick. And the knops and the branches shall be, altogether, one piece of pure thick gold. And thou shalt make seven lamps and put them on high thereon, to give light unto the other side that is over against it: with snuffers and firepans of pure gold. An hundred pound weight of fine gold shall make it with all the apparel. And see that thou make them after the fashion that was showed thee in the mount."
"And command the children of Israel that they give the pure oil olive beaten for the lights to pour always into the lamps.
