The Ear
29 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
20 sections
- Blood Put on the Right Ear of Priests at Consecration
- Blood Put on the Right Ear of The Healed Leper in Cleansing Him
- Capable of Trying and Distinguishing Words
- Christ Opens
- God: Judicially Closed
- God: Made
- God: Opens
- God: Planted
- Instruction Received Through
- Not Satisfied with Earthly Things
- Not to be Stopped at Cry of the Poor
- Often Adorned with Rings
- should be Bowed Down to Instructions
- should be Given to the Law of God
- should be Incline to Wisdom
- should Hear and Obey Reproof
- should Receive the Word of God
- should Seek Knowledge
- That Hears and Receives the Word of God, Blessed
- The Organ of Hearing
Blood Put on the Right Ear of Priests at Consecration
- Exodus 29:20 Slaughter the ram, take some of its blood, and put it on the right earlobes of Aaron and his sons, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Splatter the remaining blood on all sides of the altar.
- Leviticus 8:23 Moses slaughtered the ram and took some of its blood and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
Blood Put on the Right Ear of The Healed Leper in Cleansing Him
- Leviticus 14:14 The priest is to take some of the blood from the guilt offering and put it on the right earlobe of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.
Capable of Trying and Distinguishing Words
- Job 12:11 Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?
Christ Opens
- Isaiah 35:5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
- Isaiah 43:8 Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind, and who have ears but are deaf.
- Isaiah 43:10 “You are My witnesses,” declares the LORD, “and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe Me and understand that I am He. Before Me no god was formed, and after Me none will come.
God: Judicially Closed
- Isaiah 6:10 Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”
- Matthew 13:15 For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
God: Made
- Proverbs 20:12 Ears that hear and eyes that see— the LORD has made them both.
God: Opens
God: Planted
- Psalm 94:9 He who affixed the ear, can He not hear? He who formed the eye, can He not see?
Instruction Received Through
- Isaiah 30:21 And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
Not Satisfied with Earthly Things
- Ecclesiastes 1:8 All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
Not to be Stopped at Cry of the Poor
- Proverbs 21:13 Whoever shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too shall cry out and receive no answer.
Often Adorned with Rings
- Ezekiel 16:12 I put a ring in your nose, earrings on your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head.
- Hosea 2:13 I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.
should be Bowed Down to Instructions
- Proverbs 5:1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight,
should be Given to the Law of God
- Isaiah 1:10 Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
should be Incline to Wisdom
- Proverbs 2:2 if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,
should Hear and Obey Reproof
- Proverbs 15:31 He who listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.
- Proverbs 25:12 Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold is a wise man’s rebuke to a listening ear.
should Receive the Word of God
- Jeremiah 9:20 Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.
should Seek Knowledge
- Proverbs 18:15 The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks it out.
That Hears and Receives the Word of God, Blessed
- Exodus 15:26 saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted …
- Matthew 13:16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.
The Organ of Hearing
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.