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Lamps
Design of - 2Pe 1:19
DESCRIBED AS
- Burning
- Ge 15:17- Shining
- Joh 5:35Lighted with oil - Mt 25:3,8
Oil for, carried in vessels - Mt 25:4
Sometimes supplied with oil form a bowl through pipes - Zec 4:2
Required to be constantly trimmed - Mt 25:7
USED FOR LIGHTING
- The tabernacle
- Ex 25:37- Private apartments
- Ac 20:8- Chariots of war by night
- Na 2:3,4- Marriage processions
- Mt 25:1- Persons going out at night
- Joh 18:3Often kept lighting all night - Pr 31:18
Placed on a stand to give light to all in the house - Mt 5:15
Illumination of the tents of Arab chiefs by, alluded to - Job 29:3,4
Probable origin of dark lantern - Jud 7:16
ILLUSTRATIVE
- Of the word of God
- Ps 119:105; Pr 6:23- Of omniscience of Christ
- Da 10:6; Re 1:14- Of graces of the Holy Spirit
- Re 4:5- Of salvation of God
- Ge 15:17; Isa 62:1- Of God's guidance
- 2Sa 22:29; Ps 18:28- Of glory of the cherubim
- Eze 1:13- Of spirit of man
- Pr 20:27- Of ministers
- Joh 5:35- Of wise rulers
- 2Sa 21:17- Of severe judgments
- Re 8:10- Of a succession of heirs
- 1Ki 11:36; 15:4- (Put out,) of destruction of the wicked
- Job 18:5,6; 21:17; 13:9- (Totally quenched,) of complete destruction of those who
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