Hyssop

How Nave’s arranged it

• An indigenous plant to western Asia and northern Africa1 Kings 4:33
• The Israelites used, in sprinkling the blood of the paschal lamb upon the lintels of their doorsExodus 12:22
• In sprinkling blood in purificationsLeviticus 14:4Leviticus 14:6Leviticus 14:51Leviticus 14:52Hebrews 9:19
• Used in the sacrifices of separationNumbers 19:6
• Used in giving Jesus vinegar on the crossJohn 19:29
• FIGURATIVE
• Of spiritual cleansingPsalms 51:7

The passages, in Bible order (10)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 10 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 12:22

   Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 12:222 voices

   “For he who is baptized is seen to be purified both according to the law and according to the gospel. According to the law, because Moses sprinkled the blood of the lamb with a bunch of hyssop. According to the gospel, because Christ's garments were white as snow, when in the gospel he showed forth the glory of his resurrection.

   “And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop,....

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2. Leviticus 14:4

   the priest shall order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 14:42 voices

   “Two birds alive and clean, etc. - Whether these birds were sparrows, or turtledoves, or pigeons, we know not; probably any kind of clean bird, or bird proper to be eaten, might be used on this occasion, though it is more likely that turtle-doves or pigeons were employed, because these appear to have been the only birds offered in sacrifice. Of the cedarwood, hyssop, clean bird, and scarlet wool or fillet, were made an aspergillum, or instrument to sprinkle with.

   “Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed,.... The command is by the priest, the taking is by any man, as Ben Gersom observes; anyone whom he shall command, the leper himself, or his friends.

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3. Leviticus 14:6

   And he is to take the live bird together with the cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, and dip them into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.

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   “As for the living bird, he shall take it,....

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4. Leviticus 14:51

   Then he shall take the cedar wood, the hyssop, the scarlet yarn, and the live bird, dip them in the blood of the slaughtered bird and the fresh water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 14:511 voice

   “And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird,.... See Gill on Lev 14:6. and sprinkle the house seven times. See Gill on Lev 14:7.

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5. Leviticus 14:52

   And he shall cleanse the house with the bird’s blood, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn.

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6. Numbers 19:6

   The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.

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   “And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet,....

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7. 1 Kings 4:33

   He spoke of trees, from the cedar in Lebanon to the hyssop growing in the wall, and he taught about animals, birds, reptiles, and fish.

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 4:332 voices

   “All men want to be wise and knowing. Yet, soon it happens that the woman deceives the man. But wisdom is the higher, being noble, while knowing is the lower: yet she seems beautiful to man, and he seeks to be joined to her, and …

   “[Greek philosophers] took these ideas from Solomon, since it was long before them in age and time that he first gave these teachings through the Spirit of God. The Greeks have brought them forth as their own discoveries, and they have also included them in their books of instructions and left them to be handed down to their successors.

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8. Psalms 51:7

   Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

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   After this white robes were given to you as a sign that you were putting off the covering of sins and putting on the chaste veil of innocence, of which the prophet said, "Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed; wash me, and I shall be made whiter than snow."

   “Purge me with hyssop,.... Or "thou shalt purge me with hyssop" (f); or "expiate me"; which was used in sprinkling the blood of the paschal lamb on the door posts of the Israelites in Egypt, that the destroying angel might pass over them, Exo 12:22; and in the cleansing of the leper, Lev 14:4; and in the purification of one that was unclean by the touch of a dead body, &c.

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9. John 19:29

   A jar of sour wine was sitting there. So they soaked a sponge in the wine, put it on a stalk of hyssop, and lifted it to His mouth.

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   “He is given vinegar to drink mingled with gall. Who? He who turned water into wine, the destroyer of the bitter taste who is sweetness and altogether desire.

   “Now there was set a vessel full of vinegar,....

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10. Hebrews 9:19

    For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people,

    ›Commentary on Hebrews 9:192 voices

    “One of these goats was bound with scarlet, and driven by the people out of the camp into the wilderness, amid cursing, and spitting, and pulling, and piercing, being thus marked with all the signs of the Lord's own passion; while the other, by being offered up for sins, and given to the priests of the temple for meat, afforded proofs of His second appearance, when (after all sins have been expiated) the priests of the spiritual temple, that is, the church, are to enjoy the flesh, as it were, of the Lord's own grace, whilst the residue go away from salvation without tasting it.

    “For when Moses had spoken every precept,....

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