Symbols and Similitudes

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Ezekiel 12:17-20 OT

  Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness. Tell the people of the land, ‘The Lord Yahweh says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and…

• Ezekiel 12:18 OT

  “Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness.

• Ezekiel 15:2 OT

  “Son of man, what is the vine tree more than any tree, the vine-branch which is among the trees of the forest?

• Ezekiel 19:10-14 OT

  “ ‘Your mother was like a vine in your blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters. It had strong branches for the scepters of those who ruled. Their stature was exalted among the thick…

• Ezekiel 24:16-19 OT

  “Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down. Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress on you,…

• Ezekiel 24:1-5 OT

  Again, in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, write the name of the day, this same day. The king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day. Utter a…

• Ezekiel 24:15-18 OT

  Also Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down. Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for…

• Ezekiel 37:15-28 OT

  Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying, “You, son of man, take one stick, and write on it, ‘For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions.’ Then take another stick, and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all…

• Daniel 5:5 OT

  In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

• Daniel 5:6 OT

  Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

• Daniel 5:16-28 OT

  But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts. Now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold around your neck, and…

• Amos 7:7 OT

  Thus he showed me and behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

• Amos 7:8 OT

  Yahweh said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said, “Behold, I will set a plumb line in the middle of my people Israel. I will not again pass by them any more.

• Hosea 1:2-9 OT

  When Yahweh spoke at first by Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, “Go, take for yourself a wife of prostitution and children of unfaithfulness; for the land commits great adultery, forsaking Yahweh.” So he went and took Gomer the daughter of…

• Hosea 3:1-4 OT

  Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by another, and an adulteress, even as Yahweh loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins.” So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of…

• Zechariah 5:2-4 OT

  He said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying scroll; its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.” Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals…

• Zechariah 5:6-11 OT

  I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is the ephah basket that is appearing.” He said moreover, “This is their appearance in all the land (and behold, a talent of lead was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting in the middle of the ephah…

• Matthew 16:4 NT

  An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them, and departed.

• Luke 11:29 NT

  When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.

• Luke 11:30 NT

  For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will also be to this generation.

• Matthew 2:2 NT

  “Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”

• Colossians 4:6 NT

  Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

• Matthew 26:26 NT

  As they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks for it, and broke it. He gave to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”

• Mark 14:22 NT

  As they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had blessed, he broke it, and gave to them, and said, “Take, eat. This is my body.”