Leviticus 24:2
Give orders to the children of Israel to give you clean olive oil for the light, so that a light may be burning at all times,
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Exodus 39:37The support for the lights, with the vessels for the lights to be put in their places on it, and all its vessels, and the oil for the lights;
Numbers 8:2Say to Aaron, When you put the lights in their places, the seven lights will give light in front of the support.
2 Chronicles 13:11By whom burned offerings and perfumes are sent up in smoke before the Lord every morning and every evening; and they put out the holy bread on its table and the gold support for the lights with its lights burning every evening; for we keep the orders given to us by the Lord our God, but you have gone away from him.
Psalms 119:130The opening of your words gives light; it gives good sense to the simple.
Isaiah 8:20Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there is no dawn. ...
Matthew 4:16The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 24:2-10
Laws Concerning the Lamps. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually. 3 Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the Lord continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations. 4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the Lord continually. 5 And… Read the whole commentary →