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Gold
Feature Pages(3)
- FeatureZayin (ז) — the Hebrew letterThe uncertain sign — and the letter of the seed and the word remember.
- FeatureThe Statue and the Stone — Daniel 2 and 7One dream told twice: the metals of Nebuchadnezzar's image set against the beasts of Daniel's night vision, and the stone that becomes a mountain.
- FeatureThe New JerusalemScripture's last vision is a city measured with a golden reed — a cube of gold where Eden is restored and God dwells with men.
Verses(5+)
- VerseExodus 28:13Fashion gold filigree settings
- VerseExodus 25:24Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it.
- VersePsalms 119:127Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, even the purest gold.
- VerseExodus 37:11He overlaid it with pure gold and made a gold molding around it.
- VerseNumbers 7:80one gold dish weighing ten shekels, filled with incense;
People(3)
- PersonHiram of TyreKing of Tyre and friend of David who supplied cedar of Lebanon, craftsmen, and gold for Solomon's temple and fleet — the Gentile partner in the house of the LORD's building.
- PersonJeroboam ISolomon's industrious servant made first king of the torn-away north; his golden calves at Bethel and Dan became the sin that named him — "Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made…
- PersonJeroboam IIIsrael's long-reigning northern king (2 Kings 14:23-29) whose military success and prosperity form the golden backdrop Amos and Hosea prophesied against.
Manuscripts(1)
Words (Strong's)(5+)
Themes(5+)
- ThemeRedemptionRedemption is the Bible's word for rescue that costs something. Two Hebrew verbs carry the weight: *ga'al*, the act of a near kinsman (*go'el*) who buys back land, a person, or…
- ThemeFaith**Faith across the canon is less a feeling than a transaction: a person trusts what God has said and acts on it before the outcome is visible.** The Old Testament rarely uses…
- ThemeLoveThe Old Testament's word for it is *chesed* — not a feeling but a covenant posture: steadfast, loyal, obligated love that keeps showing up whether or not it is deserved. God's…
- ThemePrayerPrayer enters the canon as a corporate act, not a private technique: "then began men to call upon the name of Jehovah" (Genesis 4:26) describes a community, not a method. The…
- ThemeWorshipScripture's worship vocabulary carries two roots held together: *shachah* (to bow down, prostrate) and *abad* (to serve, to labor for). *Shachah* is first rendered "worship" at…
Topics(3)
Authors(5+)
- AuthorThietland of EinsiedelnThietland was the second abbot of Einsiedeln, the monastery in the forested hills of what is now central Switzerland. He held the office from about 943 until he resigned in…
- AuthorPeter ChrysologusPeter was born about 380 at Imola in northern Italy, and was made deacon there by Bishop Cornelius, whom he always called his spiritual father. Around 433 he became bishop of…
- AuthorAnthony the GreatAnthony was born about 251 in Coma, a village in Middle Egypt, to Christian farmers with good land. He spoke Coptic, the Egyptian language, and never learned Greek. He would…
- AuthorJohn ChrysostomJohn was born at Antioch about 347. His father Secundus, an army officer, died while he was an infant; his mother Anthusa was widowed at twenty and refused to remarry so she…
- AuthorCyprianThascius Caecilius Cyprianus was a wealthy man in Carthage — a teacher of rhetoric, a public figure, a landowner — until an old presbyter named Caecilianus led him to Christ…
Apocrypha (study resources)(5+)
- Study resourceSirach 31:6Gold hath been the ruin of many, and their destruction was present.
- Study resource1 Esdras 8:57And twenty golden vessels, and twelve vessels of brass, even of fine brass, glittering like gold.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 15:18And they brought a shield of gold of a thousand pound.
- Study resourceSirach 40:25Gold and silver make the foot stand sure: but counsel is esteemed above them both.
- Study resourceSirach 2:5For gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.