Doorpost and lintel imagery uses the entrance of the house as a public boundary of allegiance, protection, obedience, covenant memory, idolatrous corruption, or judgment beginning at the threshold.
Doorpost and lintel imagery uses the entrance of the house as a public boundary of allegiance, protection, obedience, covenant memory, idolatrous corruption, or judgment beginning at the threshold.
A household-boundary motif in which doorposts, lintels, and entrance markers bear blood, written law, social testimony, idolatrous signs, or judgment, thereby making the house entrance a theological boundary.
These examples show how Doorpost, Lintel, and Blood-Marked Household Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post
Passover blood marks the household for protection.
the blood shall be to you for a token
The blood-marked house becomes a sign under judgment.
strike the lintel and the two side posts
The doorway receives the blood sign in obedience to Gods command.
bring him to the door, or unto the door post
The doorpost marks permanent household service.
write them upon the posts of thy house
The doorpost becomes a visible covenant-memory location.
write them upon the door posts of thine house
Household entrances are marked by Gods words.
Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple
The temple post frames the setting of Hannahs prayer and priestly observation.
posts of olive tree
Temple doorposts are part of the ordered beauty of Gods house.
behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance
The doorway is corrupted by idolatrous memory.
smite the lintel of the door
Judgment is pictured as striking the sanctuary threshold structure.
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