From Nave’s Topical Bible
Legends (Inscriptions)
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 7Passages listed
- 5Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Holiness to the LORD, engraved
- On the high priest's mitreExodus 28:36Exodus 39:30
- On bells of horses, on pots and bowlsZechariah 14:20
- This is Jesus, the King of the JewsMatthew 27:37
- Precepts written on door posts and gates, and worn on the hand and foreheadDeuteronomy 6:6–9Deuteronomy 11:18–20Isaiah 57:8
The passages, in Bible order (7)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 7 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Exodus 28:36
You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it as on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.
Commentary on Exodus 28:361 voice
Holiness becomes his house and household. The high priest must be sequestered from all pollution, and consecrated to God and to his service and honour, and so must all his ministrations be. All that attend in God's house must have Holiness to the Lord engraven upon their foreheads, that is, they must be holy, devoted to the Lord, and designing his glory in all they do.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Exodus 39:30
They also made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and they engraved on it, like an inscription on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.
Commentary on Exodus 39:301 voice
The holy crown of pure gold - On Asiatic monuments, particularly those that appear in the ruins of Persepolis and on many Egyptian monuments, the priests are represented as wearing crowns or tiaras, and sometimes their heads are crowned with laurel. Cuper observes, that the priests and priestesses, among the ancient Greeks, were styled στεφανοφοροι, or crown-bearers, because they officiated having sometimes crowns of gold, at others, crowns of laurel, upon their heads.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Deuteronomy 6:6–9
These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 6:6–91 voice
And these words, which I command thee this day,.... To hearken to, observe, and take notice of, that God is one, and is to be loved in the strongest manner that possibly can be: shall be in thine heart; on the table of the heart, as the Targum of Jonathan; see 2Co 3:3, be cordially received, have a place in the affections of the heart, and be retained in mind and memory.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Deuteronomy 11:18–20
Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
- Isaiah 57:8
Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness.
Commentary on Isaiah 57:82 voices
11:20); a curse, too, was pronounced on putting up an image "in a secret place" (De 27:15). discovered thyself--image from an adulteress. enlarged . . . bed--so as to receive the more paramours. made . . . covenant--with idols: in open violation of thy "covenant" with God (Ex 19:5;
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance,.... The memorial of thine idols, as the Targum.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Zechariah 14:20
On that day, HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling bowls before the altar.
Commentary on Zechariah 14:202 voices
Shall there be - Written as it were on every common thing. Holiness unto the Lord - Their persons shall bear the dedicating inscription of holiness to the Lord, and by their study of holiness they shall make good their motto. The pots - Which were used in the kitchens of the temple, and were not accounted so sacred as the utensils near the sacrifices, and altar.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
Upon the bells of the horses - They appear, formerly, to have had bells on horses, camels, etc., as we have now, to amuse the animals, and encourage them in their work. In some very fine Asiatic paintings now before me, I see bells both on horses, mules, and camels; little bells tied to their legs, and larger ones about their necks, particularly in the representation of a caravan passing through the valley of serpents, in the island of Serendib, now Ceylon. The margin reads bridles.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Matthew 27:37
Above His head they posted the written charge against Him: THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Commentary on Matthew 27:372 voices
And they set up over his head his accusation written, This is Jesus, the King of the Jews. I cannot sufficiently wonder at the enormity of the thing, that having purchased false witnesses, and having stirred up the unhappy people to riot and uproar, they found no other plea for putting Him to death, than that He was King of the Jews; and this perhaps they set up in mockery.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by AquinasPatristic
And set up over his head his accusation written,.... The Evangelist John calls it a "title", Joh 19:19, and Luke, a "superscription", Luk 23:38, and Mark, the "superscription of his accusation", Mar 15:26, it was what contained the sum and substance of what he was accused, and for which he was condemned, and suffered. The Syriac and Persic versions here render it, "the cause of his death".
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed