settings of stones
Priestly breastplate stones represent Israel before the LORD in ordered beauty.
Pearl and jewel imagery uses precious stones, pearls, gems, and ornamented foundations to picture rare value, covenant remembrance, holy beauty, guarded treasure, and the glory of the New Jerusalem.
Pearl and jewel imagery uses precious stones, pearls, gems, and ornamented foundations to picture rare value, covenant remembrance, holy beauty, guarded treasure, and the glory of the New Jerusalem.
A precious-object motif in which jewels and pearls signal value, beauty, covenant representation, transformed identity, holy splendour, or the incomparable worth of the kingdom.
These examples show how Pearl, Jewel, and Precious-Stone Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
settings of stones
Priestly breastplate stones represent Israel before the LORD in ordered beauty.
lay thy foundations with sapphires
Precious stones portray restored Zion’s beauty and divine rebuilding.
all thy borders of pleasant stones
Gem imagery expands restoration into radiant holiness and beauty.
every precious stone was thy covering
Precious stones describe splendour that becomes context for pride and fall.
they shall be mine... my jewels
The faithful remnant is treasured as the LORD’s own possession.
neither cast ye your pearls before swine
Pearls represent what is precious and must not be profaned.
a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls
Pearls introduce the search for surpassing kingdom value.
one pearl of great price
The single pearl pictures incomparable value worth total reordering.
garnished with all manner of precious stones
Precious stones adorn the foundations of the New Jerusalem.
every several gate was of one pearl
Pearl gates intensify the city’s costly splendour and holy beauty.
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