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The Hebrew Bible states that God revealed the design for the menorah to Moses and describes the construction of the menorah as follows: [4]. 31 Make a lampstand of pure gold. . Hammer out its base and shaft, and make its flowerlike cups, buds and blossoms of one piece with
The golden lampstand (1984 illustration by Jim Padgett, courtesy of Distant Shores Media/Sweet Publishing) A midrash taught that God instructed Moses to cause a lamp to burn in the Tabernacle not because God needed the light, but so that the Israelites might be able to give light to God as God gave light to the Israelites.
Illustration from the Bamberg Apocalypse of the Son of Man among the seven lampstands The Vision of John on Patmos by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1860). John's vision of the Son of Man, also known as John’s Vision of Christ, is a vision described in the Book of Revelation (Revelation 1:9–20) in which the author, identified as John, sees a person he describes as one "like the Son of Man" ().
The lampstand is the Church, on which He set the lamp, when He affixed to our foreheads the faith of His incarnation. [ 4 ] Hilary of Poitiers : Or, the lamp, i. e. Christ Himself, is set on its stand when He was suspended on the Cross in His passion, to give light forever to those that dwell in the Church; to give light, He says, to all that ...
The imagery of seven golden lampstands refers to the seven-branched lampstand in the Jerusalem Temple (Exodus 25:31; Zechariah 4:2). [ 30 ] The scenario of John hearing God's message beginning behind him echoes the encounters with God from Isaiah 30:21 , "and thine ears shall hear a word behind thee", and Ezekiel 3:12 , "and I hear behind me a ...
Elsewhere in the Bible the name occurs only in the genealogical lists of the Book of Chronicles, but according to cuneiform inscriptions a variant form [citation needed] of the same, "Ṣil-Bēl," was borne by a king of Gaza who was a contemporary of Hezekiah and Manasseh. [2] The name "Bezalel" means "in the shadow [protection] of God."
The Tabernacle (2009 SketchUp model by Gabriel Fink). Terumah, Terumoh, Terimuh, or Trumah (תְּרוּמָה —Hebrew for "gift" or "offering," the twelfth word and first distinctive word in the parashah) is the nineteenth weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the Book of Exodus.
The exact meaning of the expression is disputed, [13] in part because salt had a wide number of uses in the ancient world. Salt was extremely important in the time period when Matthew was written, and ancient communities knew that salt was a requirement of life. [14]