Pillar

How Nave’s arranged it

• Of Solomon's temple1 Kings 7:13–222 Kings 25:17
• Broken and carried to Babylon2 Kings 25:13Jeremiah 52:17Jeremiah 52:20Jeremiah 52:21
• Of Solomon's palaces1 Kings 7:6
• Used to mark roadsJeremiah 31:21
• Pillar of salt, Lot's wife turned toGenesis 19:26Luke 17:32
• Monuments erected to commemorate events
• By Jacob, his vision of angels with 31:13; 35:14Genesis 28:18
• By Jacob, his covenant with LabanGenesis 31:45
• By Moses, the covenant between Jehovah and IsraelExodus 24:4
• By Joshua, the crossing of the Jordan River withJoshua 4:1–9Deuteronomy 27:2–6Joshua 8:30
• By Joshua, at Shechem withJoshua 24:25–27Judges 9:6
• By Samuel, the defeat of the Philistines1 Samuel 7:12

The passages, in Bible order (27)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 19:26

   But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

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   “She became a pillar of salt - The vast variety of opinions, both ancient and modern, on the crime of Lot’s wife, her change, and the manner in which that change was effected, are in many cases as unsatisfactory as they are ridiculous. On this point the sacred Scripture says little. God had commanded Lot and his family not to look behind them; the wife of Lot disobeyed this command; she looked back from behind him - Lot, her husband, and she became a pillar of salt.

   “But let us return to Lot, who, fleeing the destruction of Sodom with his wife and daughters after he had received the command from the angels to not look back, was proceeding to Zoar. But his wife became negligent of the command. "She looked back"; she violated the imposed law; "she became a little statue of salt." Do we think there was so much evil in this transgression, that the woman, because she looked behind her, incurred the destruction that she appeared to be fleeing by divine favor?

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2. Genesis 28:18

   Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,

   ›Commentary on Genesis 28:182 voices

   “And Jacob - took the stone - and set it up for a pillar - He placed the stone in an erect posture, that it might stand as a monument of the extraordinary vision which he had in this place; and he poured oil upon it, thereby consecrating it to God, so that it might be considered an altar on which libations might be poured, and sacrifices offered unto God. See Gen 35:14. The Brahmins anoint their stone images with oil before bathing; and some anoint them with sweet-scented oil.

   “On the other hand the stone also had been erected and honored as a symbol of Christ and had been sprinkled with oil. The Immanuel was anointed by God the Father "with the oil of gladness above his fellows." Then he was raised from the dead, even though he had descended to death voluntarily. And that is, I believe, the meaning of erecting the stone.

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3. Genesis 31:45

   So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,

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4. Exodus 24:4

   And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. Early the next morning he got up and built an altar at the base of the mountain, along with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

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5. Deuteronomy 12:3

   Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.

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   “Ye shall overthrow their altars - Where unholy sacrifices have been offered; and break their pillars, probably meaning statues and representations of their gods cut out of stone; and burn their groves, such as those about the temple of Ashtaroth, the Canaanitish Venus, whose impure rites were practiced in different parts of the enclosures or groves round her temples; and ye shall hew down the graven images, probably implying all images carved out of wood; and destroy the names of them, which were no doubt at first graven on the stones, and carved on the trees, and then applied to the surrounding districts.

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6. Deuteronomy 27:2–6

   And on the day you cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, set up large stones and coat them with plaster.

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   “Thou shalt set thee up great stones - How many is not specified, possibly twelve, and possibly only a sufficient number to make a surface large enough to write the blessings and the curses on. Plaster them with plaster - Perhaps the original ושדת אתם בשיד vesadta otham bassid should be translated, Thou shalt cement them with cement, because this was intended to be a durable monument.

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7. Joshua 4:1–9

   When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,

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8. Joshua 8:30

   At that time Joshua built an altar on Mount Ebal to the LORD, the God of Israel,

   ›Commentary on Joshua 8:301 voice

   “The account of this solemnity is very brief. An acquaintance with Deut. 27 is evidently presupposed; and the three several acts of which the solemnity consisted are only so far distinctly named as is necessary to show that the commands of Moses there given were fully carried out by Joshua. It is difficult to escape the conviction that these verses are here out of their proper and original place.

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9. Joshua 15:6

   The northern border started from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan, went up to Beth-hoglah, proceeded north of Beth-arabah, and went up to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben.

   ›Commentary on Joshua 15:61 voice

   “Beth-hogla - A place between Jericho and the Dead Sea, belonging to the tribe of Benjamin, Jos 18:21, though here serving as a frontier to the tribe of Judah. Stone of Bohan - This must have been some remarkable place, probably like the stone of Jacob, which afterwards became Bethel; but where it was situated is uncertain.

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10. Joshua 24:25–27

    On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.

    ›Commentary on Joshua 24:25–271 voice

    “Made a covenant with the people - i. e. he solemnly ratified and renewed the covenant of Sinai, as Moses had done before him Deu 29:1. As no new or different covenant was made, no sacrifices were necessary.

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11. Judges 9:6

    Then all the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo gathered beside the oak at the pillar in Shechem and proceeded to make Abimelech their king.

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12. 1 Samuel 7:12

    Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”

    ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 7:122 voices

    “Called the name of it Eben-ezer - אבן העזר Eben haezer, “The Stone of Help;” perhaps a pillar is meant by the word stone.

    "That stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone." That is the stone that is called Ebenezer in the book of Kings [Samuel]. That stone is Christ. The name Ebenezer, moreover, means "the stone of help."

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13. 1 Samuel 20:19

    When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.

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14. 2 Samuel 18:18

    During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.

    ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 18:182 voices

    “Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken,.... Had taken it into his head, had of himself devised it, as Kimchi explains it; he contrived the following scheme to perpetuate his memory: and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: or valley, the valley of Jehoshaphat; this pillar was of marble, as Josephus (o) says, and stood about two furlongs or a quater mile from Jerusalem.

    “Reared up for himself a pillar - There was a marble pillar in the time of Josephus called Absalom’s pillar: and there is one shown to the present day under this name; but it is comparatively a modern structure. Absalom’s place - Literally Absalom’s Hand. See the note on 1Sa 15:12.

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15. 2 Samuel 20:8

    And while they were at the great stone in Gibeon, Amasa joined them. Now Joab was dressed in military attire, with a dagger strapped to his belt. And as he stepped forward, he slipped the dagger from its sheath.

    ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 20:81 voice

    “Joab’s garment - It appears that this was not a military garment; and that Joab had no arms but a short sword, which he had concealed in his girdle; and this sword, or knife, was so loose in its sheath that it could be easily drawn out.

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16. 1 Kings 1:9

    And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened calves near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel. He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah who were servants of the king.

    ›Commentary on 1 Kings 1:91 voice

    “Adonijah’s feast was probably of a sacrificial character, and intended to inaugurate him as king. Compare the “sacrifices” of Absalom 2Sa 15:12. Zoheleth - No satisfactory explanation has been given of this name. Large blocks of stone always attract attention in the East, and receive names which are often drawn from some trivial circumstance. Sinai and Palestine are full of such “Hajars,” which correspond to the “Ebens” or “stones” of Holy Scripture. (Compare Gen 28:22; Jos 4:9; 1Sa 6:14.) For En-Rogel, see the margin reference.

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