11 Bible Verses about Candles
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Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a close vessel, but on a candlestick: and it giveth light to all 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 who is in heaven.
And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters. Moreover, thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way in which they should go. Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spokest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
No man when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a close vessel, but on a candlestick, that they who come in may see the light. The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thy eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thy eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore, that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
And it came to pass, that when the sun had gone down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: its shaft, and its branches, its bowls, its knobs, and its flowers, shall be of the same. And six branches shall extend from the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick from the one side, and three branches of the candlestick from the other side: Three bowls made like to almonds, with a knob and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knob and a flower: so in the six branches that project from the candlestick.read more.
And in the candlesticks shall be four bowls made like to almonds, with their knobs and their flowers. And there shall be a knob under two branches of the same, and a knob under two branches of the same, and a knob under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that project from the candlestick. Their knobs and their branches shall be of the same: all of it shall be one beaten work of pure gold. And thou shalt make its seven lamps: and they shall light its lamps, that they may give light over against it. And its tongs, and its snuff-dishes, shall be of pure gold. Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels. And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shown thee on the mount.
And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring the pure olive-oil beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
