Legends (Inscriptions)

How Nave’s arranged it

• Holiness to the LORD, engraved
• On the high priest's mitreExodus 28:36Exodus 39:30
• On bells of horses, on pots and bowlsZechariah 14:20
• This is Jesus, the King of the JewsMatthew 27:37
• Precepts written on door posts and gates, and worn on the hand and foreheadDeuteronomy 6:6–9Deuteronomy 11:18–20Isaiah 57:8

The passages, in Bible order (7)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 7 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 28:36

   You are to make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it as on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.

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   “And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold,....

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2. Exodus 39:30

   They also made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and they engraved on it, like an inscription on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 39:301 voice

   “The holy crown of pure gold - On Asiatic monuments, particularly those that appear in the ruins of Persepolis and on many Egyptian monuments, the priests are represented as wearing crowns or tiaras, and sometimes their heads are crowned with laurel. Cuper observes, that the priests and priestesses, among the ancient Greeks, were styled στεφανοφοροι, or crown-bearers, because they officiated having sometimes crowns of gold, at others, crowns of laurel, upon their heads.

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3. Deuteronomy 6:6–9

   These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.

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   “And these words, which I command thee this day,.... To hearken to, observe, and take notice of, that God is one, and is to be loved in the strongest manner that possibly can be: shall be in thine heart; on the table of the heart, as the Targum of Jonathan; see 2Co 3:3, be cordially received, have a place in the affections of the heart, and be retained in mind and memory.

   “Shall be in thine heart - For where else can love be? If it be not in the heart, it exists not. And if these words be not in the heart - if they are not esteemed, prized, and received as a high and most glorious privilege, what hope is there that this love shall ever reign there?

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4. Deuteronomy 11:18–20

   Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

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   “Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart, and in your soul,.... Treasure up the laws of God delivered to them in their minds, retain them in their memories, and cherish a cordial affection for them; which would be an antidote against apostasy, idolatry, and other sins, Psa 119:11. and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes; of this and the two following verses; see Gill on Deu 6:7; see Gill on Deu 6:8; see Gill on Deu 6:9.

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5. Isaiah 57:8

   Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness.

   ›Commentary on Isaiah 57:82 voices

   “First, let us discuss the Hebrew text, which differs greatly from the LXX in this passage. As mentioned above, to the place where it says: 'You have set your bed on a high and lofty mountain,' and it accuses and rebukes her as a prostitute, in the entrance of houses and in dark places, a harlot behind the doors, so that anyone who wished to enter the house would have the pleasure exposed before their eyes.

   “Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance,.... The memorial of thine idols, as the Targum.

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6. Zechariah 14:20

   On that day, HOLY TO THE LORD will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the house of the LORD will be like the sprinkling bowls before the altar.

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   “(Verse 20) On that day, what is on the bridle of the horse will be holy to the Lord, and the pots in the house of the Lord will be like the bowls before the altar. And every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be consecrated to the Lord of hosts. (Verse 21) On that day, what is on the bridle of the horse will be holy to the Lord God Almighty. And the pots in the house of the Lord will be like the bowls before the altar.

   “In that day,....

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7. Matthew 27:37

   Above His head they posted the written charge against Him: THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

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   “And they set up over his head his accusation written, This is Jesus, the King of the Jews. I cannot sufficiently wonder at the enormity of the thing, that having purchased false witnesses, and having stirred up the unhappy people to riot and uproar, they found no other plea for putting Him to death, than that He was King of the Jews; and this perhaps they set up in mockery.

   “And set up over his head his accusation written,.... The Evangelist John calls it a "title", Joh 19:19, and Luke, a "superscription", Luk 23:38, and Mark, the "superscription of his accusation", Mar 15:26, it was what contained the sum and substance of what he was accused, and for which he was condemned, and suffered. The Syriac and Persic versions here render it, "the cause of his death".

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