Instruction by Object Lessons
19 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
18 sections
- Basket of Figs
- Bonds and Yokes
- Eating and Drinking Sparingly
- Eating Bread Mixed with Dung
- Fringes on the Borders of Garments
- Illustrations on a Tile
- Lying on One Side in Public View for a Long Period
- Moving Household Goods
- Potter's Vessel
- Shaving the Head
- Sighing
- Symbolically Wearing Sackcloth and Going Barefoot
- The Boiling Pot
- The Linen Sash
- The Pillar of Twelve Stones at the Fords of the Jordan River
- The Pot of Manna
- Two Sticks Joined Together
- Widowhood
Basket of Figs
- Jeremiah 24:1 After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, as well as the officials of Judah and the craftsmen and metalsmiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, the LORD showed …
Bonds and Yokes
- Jeremiah 27:2–11 This is what the LORD said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck. …
- Jeremiah 28:1 In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the …
Eating and Drinking Sparingly
- Ezekiel 12:18–20 “Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and anxiety. …
Eating Bread Mixed with Dung
- Ezekiel 4:9–17 But take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt; put them in a single container and make them into bread for yourself. This is what you are to eat during the 390 days you lie on your side. …
Fringes on the Borders of Garments
- Numbers 15:38–39 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout the generations to come they are to make for themselves tassels for the corners of their garments, with a blue cord on each tassel. …
Illustrations on a Tile
- Ezekiel 4:1–3 “Now you, son of man, take a brick, place it before you, and draw on it the city of Jerusalem. …
Lying on One Side in Public View for a Long Period
- Ezekiel 4:4–8 Then lie down on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel upon yourself. You are to bear their iniquity for the number of days you lie on your side. …
Moving Household Goods
- Ezekiel 12:3–16 Therefore, son of man, pack your bags for exile. In broad daylight, set out from your place and go to another as they watch. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house. …
Potter's Vessel
- Jeremiah 19:1–12 This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests, …
Shaving the Head
- Ezekiel 5:1 “As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.
Sighing
- Ezekiel 21:6–7 But you, son of man, groan! Groan before their eyes with a broken heart and bitter grief. …
Symbolically Wearing Sackcloth and Going Barefoot
- Isaiah 20:2–3 the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet.” And Isaiah did so, walking around naked and barefoot. …
The Boiling Pot
- Ezekiel 24:1–14 In the ninth year, on the tenth day of the tenth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, …
The Linen Sash
- Jeremiah 13:1–11 This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.” …
The Pillar of Twelve Stones at the Fords of the Jordan River
- Joshua 4:19–24 On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho. …
The Pot of Manna
- Exodus 16:32 Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Keep an omer of manna for the generations to come, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.’”
Two Sticks Joined Together
- Ezekiel 37:16–22 “And you, son of man, take a single stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Judah and to the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another stick and write on it: ‘Belonging to Joseph— the stick of Ephraim— and to all the house …
Widowhood
- Ezekiel 24:16–27 “Son of man, behold, I am about to take away the desire of your eyes with a fatal blow. But you must not mourn or weep or let your tears flow. …
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InstructionEzekielSymbols and SimilitudesPantomime by EzekielMonument Erected In, to Commemorate the Passage Across the Jordan River by the People of IsraelProphets
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.