Numbers 8:2
Say to Aaron, When you put the lights in their places, the seven lights will give light in front of the support.
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Exodus 37:18It had six branches coming out from its sides, three from one side and three from the other;
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;
Leviticus 24:1And the Lord said to Moses,
Psalms 119:105NUN Your word is a light for my feet, ever shining on my way.
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. ...
John 1:9The true light, which gives light to every man, was then coming into the world.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 8:2-5
The Lights of the Sanctuary. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick. 3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the candlestick, as the Lord commanded Moses. 4 And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto the pattern which the Lord had showed Moses, so he made… Read the whole commentary →