38 occurrences

'Pillar' in the Bible

But Lot's wife looked back as she lingered behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Verse ConceptsHesitationLooking BackwardObelisksLooking BackOther WivesSournessWifestatues

When Jacob got up early the next morning, he took the stone that he had used for his pillow, set it up as a pillar, drenched it with oil,

Verse ConceptsAnointing, ObjectsAnointing With OilMorning DevotionsMorningOilRising EarlyMonumentsObelisksStones As MonumentsThose Who Rose EarlyAnointing ThingsAnointing Oil

this stone that I've erected in the form of a pillar will be God's house, and I'll give you a tenth of everything that you give to me."

Verse ConceptsHouse Of GodTithesFractions, One TenthObelisksStones As MonumentsBethel The House Of GodTithing ProduceTithes And OfferingGiving Back

So Jacob took a stone and raised it as a pillar.

Verse ConceptsMonumentsObelisks

"Look!" Laban added, "Here is the stack of stones and here is the pillar that I've set up between you and me.

Verse ConceptsObelisksCairns

This stack is a witness, and so is this pillar, reminding me not to cross beyond this stack of stones, and reminding you not to pass by this stack in my direction, intending to cause harm.

Verse ConceptsPassing ByObelisksCairnsThings As Witnesses

Jacob erected a pillar of stone at that very place where God had spoken to him. He poured a drink offering over it, anointed it with oil,

Verse Conceptsdrink offeringCeremoniesOilPouringMonumentsObelisksStones As MonumentsAnointing ThingsMaking Cereal Offerings And Libations

Jacob erected a pillar over her grave, and that pillar stands over Rachel's grave to this day.

Verse ConceptsObelisksPlaces To This Day

Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.

Verse ConceptsObelisksDuring The Day

Then the angel of God, who was going in front of the camp of Israel, moved behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front of them and stood behind them,

Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordGuardiansDivine ManifestationsHeaven And AngelsAngels Helping UsThe Angel Of GodObelisksGod Going BeforeCamping During The ExodusAngelic Guardianshipmovement

In the morning watch, the LORD looked down on the Egyptian camp through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he threw the Egyptian camp into confusion.

Verse ConceptsConfusion, Examples OfNightObelisksGod Appearing In FireGod Seeing The WickedPuzzlementcloudsarmy

When Moses entered the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stand at the doorway of the tent while God spoke with Moses.

Verse ConceptsCommunicationLonelinessPillarsDivine ManifestationsTent Of MeetingTheophanySolitudeObelisksGod Appearing At The DoorwayEntering The TabernacleGod Speaking

When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the doorway of the tent, all of them would get up and prostrate themselves in worship, each one at the doorway of his tent.

Verse ConceptsStandingTent Of MeetingWorship, Places OfWorship, Reasons ForObelisksGod Appearing At The DoorwayWorshipping God

Then the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, stood at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, and summoned Aaron and Miriam. So both of them went forward.

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsRevelation, In OtGod Appearing At The Doorway

they'll also proclaim to the inhabitants of this land that they've heard you're among this people, LORD, whom they've seen face to face, since your cloud stands guard over them. You've guided them with a pillar of cloud by day and with a pillar of fire by night.

Verse ConceptsTheophanyProtection Day And NightBeing Face To Face With GodObelisksGod Going BeforeGod Appearing In FireHearing About GodGiving InformationGod Is Among You

Furthermore, you are not to erect for yourselves a sacred stone pillar, because the LORD your God detests these things.

Verse ConceptsStonesObelisksGod Hating Things

So the LORD appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud that stood above the entrance.

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsTheophanyGod Appearing At The Doorway

All the men from Shechem and Beth-millo gathered together and set up Abimelech as king near the pillar erected in Shechem.

Verse ConceptsPillarsObelisksOaksMaking KingsCitizens

Then Samson grabbed the two middle pillars upon which the house rested and braced himself against them with one pillar in his right hand and the other in his left.

While Absalom had been living, he had erected a pillar as a monument to himself in King's Valley because he had been telling himself, "I don't have a son to carry on my family name." So he named the pillar after himself it's called Absalom's Monument even today.

Verse ConceptsPillarsWorldly Ambition ExamplesMonumentsPeople Naming Things

A network of latticework on top of the pillars was inlaid with ornamental wreaths and chains, the top of each pillar containing seven groups of ornamental structures.

Verse ConceptsChainsNetsSeven Things

The pillars contained two rows of ornaments shaped like pomegranates around the latticework covering the top of each pillar.

Verse ConceptsPomegranates

The capitals on top of each pillar above the rounded latticework contained four cubits of lily designs,

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of Pillars

That's how he designed the pillars at the portico of the sanctuary. When he set up the right pillar, he named it Jachin. When he set up the left pillar, he named it Boaz.

Verse ConceptsPillarsPillars For Solomon's TempleRight SidesLeft Hand SidePeople Naming Things

practicing evil in the LORD's presence, only not to the extent that his mother and father had done he forced abolition of the sacred pillar to Baal that his father had crafted.

Verse ConceptsStonesObelisks

They also cut down the pillar to Baal, tore apart Baal's temple, and turned it into a latrine and it remains that way today.

Verse ConceptsDefecation

The king stood beside a pillar and made a covenant in the presence of the LORD: to follow after the LORD, to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes with all of his heart and soul, and to carry out what was written in the covenant contained in the book. All the people consented to enter into the covenant.

Verse ConceptsAgreement, Before GodGuaranteeHeart, And Holy SpiritPledgesReformationReligionConsecration, Examples OfPillars For Solomon's TempleWhole HeartednessLater Covenants With God

The height of one of the pillars was eighteen cubits, and the capital on top of it was three cubits high. A latticework carved in the form of pomegranates encircled the capital, crafted completely out of brass. The second pillar was identical to the first.

Verse ConceptsDimensions Of PillarsPomegranates

He set up the pillars at the front of the Temple, one on the south side of the entrance and the other on the north side of the entrance. He named the south pillar Jachin and the north pillar Boaz.

Verse ConceptsPillars For Solomon's Temple

the 400 pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework having two rows of ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of each pillar);

Verse ConceptsFour To Five HundredPomegranatesFour And Five Hundred

She looked around, and there was the king, standing by his pillar at the gate, accompanied by officers and trumpeters who stood beside the king, along with all the people of the land rejoicing and sounding trumpets while singers lead the celebration with their musical instruments. Athaliah tore her robes and yelled "Treason! Treason!"

Verse ConceptsSingersTreacheryTrumpetExcitementTreasonPillars For Solomon's Temple

You led them during the day by a pillar of cloud, and by a pillar of fire at night to provide light for them on the path they took.

Verse ConceptsDivine ManifestationsLight, NaturalPillarsObelisksGod Appearing In FireLight In The WorldDuring The DayGod Has GuidedNavigation

You, in your great compassion, did not abandon them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud did not leave them in daylight, in order to provide light for them on the path they took. Nor did the pillar of fire abandon them at night, in order to provide light for them and lead them on the path they took.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentGuidance, Receiving God'sObelisksGod Appearing In FireLight In The WorldGod Not ForsakingDuring The DayGod Has Guided

In a pillar of cloud he spoke to them; they obeyed his decrees and the Law that he gave them.

Verse ConceptsGod SpeakingOld Testament Claims Inspiration

"As for me, today I'm making you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and a bronze wall against the whole land against the kings of Judah, against its princes, against its priests, and against the people of the land.

Verse ConceptsBronzeCityIronPillarsWallsBrassMetaphorical PillarsFigurative WallsThings Like BronzeThings Like IronKings of judahFamily Conflictpriests

On each pillar was a capital of bronze, and the height of each capital was five cubits. Latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, were all around the capital. And the second pillar was like this, including the pomegranates.

Verse ConceptsNetsDimensions Of PillarsTop Of Things

Then he led me toward the south, where there was a gate with side pillar and porch measurements identical to the others.

Verse ConceptsPillars For Ezekiel's TempleSouth GatesSame Sizes

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