Types of Christ

119 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

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Aaron

Exodus 28:1 “Next, have your brother Aaron brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, to serve Me as priests.
Hebrews 5:4–5 No one takes this honor upon himself; he must be called by God, just as Aaron was. …
Leviticus 16:15 Aaron shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and bring its blood behind the veil, and with its blood he must do as he did with the bull’s blood: He is to sprinkle it against the mercy seat and in front of it.
Hebrews 9:7 But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.
Hebrews 9:24 For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.

Abel

Genesis 4:8 Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
Genesis 4:10 “What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.
Hebrews 12:24 to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.

Abraham

Genesis 17:5 No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
Ephesians 3:15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.

Adam

Romans 5:14 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who did not sin in the way that Adam transgressed. He is a pattern of the One to come.
1 Corinthians 15:45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam a life-giving spirit.

Ark

Genesis 7:16 And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
1 Peter 3:20–21 who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water. …

Ark of the Covenant

Exodus 25:16 And place inside the ark the Testimony, which I will give you.
Psalm 40:8 I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
Isaiah 42:6 “I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,

Atonement, Sacrifices offered on the Day of

Leviticus 16:15–16 Aaron shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and bring its blood behind the veil, and with its blood he must do as he did with the bull’s blood: He is to sprinkle it against the mercy seat and in front of it. …
Hebrews 9:12 He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.
Hebrews 9:24 For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.

Brazen Altar

Exodus 27:1–2 “You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high. …
Hebrews 13:10 We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.

Brazen Serpent

Numbers 21:9 So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at the bronze snake, he would live.
John 3:14–15 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, …

Burnt offering

Leviticus 1:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any of you brings an offering to the LORD, you may bring as your offering an animal from the herd or the flock.
Leviticus 1:4 He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, so it can be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.
Hebrews 10:10 And by that will, we have been sanctified through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Cities of Refuge

Numbers 35:6 Six of the cities you give the Levites are to be appointed as cities of refuge, to which a manslayer may flee. In addition to these, give the Levites forty-two other cities.
Hebrews 6:18 Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.

David

2 Samuel 8:15 Thus David reigned over all Israel and administered justice and righteousness for all his people:
Ezekiel 37:24 My servant David will be king over them, and there will be one shepherd for all of them. They will follow My ordinances and keep and observe My statutes.
Psalm 89:19–20 You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people. …
Philippians 2:9 Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name above all names,

Eliakim

Isaiah 22:20–22 On that day I will summon My servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah. …
Revelation 3:7 To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.

First-Fruits

Exodus 22:29 You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.
1 Corinthians 15:20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

Golden Altar

Exodus 40:5 Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the Testimony, and hang the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.
Exodus 40:26–27 Moses placed the gold altar in the Tent of Meeting, in front of the veil, …
Revelation 8:3 Then another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne.
Hebrews 13:15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.

Golden Candlestick

Exodus 25:31 Then you are to make a lampstand of pure, hammered gold. It shall be made of one piece, including its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.
John 8:12 Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Isaac

Genesis 22:1–2 Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered. …
Hebrews 11:17–19 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son, …

Jacob

Genesis 32:28 Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
John 11:42 I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.”
Hebrews 7:25 Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

Jacob's Ladder

Genesis 28:12 And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.
John 1:51 Then He declared, “Truly, truly, I tell you, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

Jonah

Jonah 1:17 Now the LORD had appointed a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah spent three days and three nights in the belly of the fish.
Matthew 12:40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

Joseph

Genesis 50:19–20 But Joseph replied, “Do not be afraid. Am I in the place of God? …

Joshua

Joshua 1:5–6 No one shall stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you. …
Hebrews 4:8–9 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. …
Joshua 11:23 So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.
Acts 20:32 And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

Laver of Brass

Exodus 30:18–20 “You are to make a bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing. Set it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it, …
Zechariah 13:1 “On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David and the people of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and impurity.
Ephesians 5:26–27 to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, …

Leper's offering

Leviticus 14:4–7 the priest shall order that two live clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop be brought for the one to be cleansed. …
Romans 4:25 He was delivered over to death for our trespasses and was raised to life for our justification.

Man

Exodus 16:11–15 Then the LORD said to Moses, …
John 6:32–35 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. …

Melchizedek

Genesis 14:18–20 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine — since he was priest of God Most High — …
Hebrews 7:1–17 This Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of God Most High. He met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, …

Mercy-Seat

Exodus 25:17–22 And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide. …
Romans 3:25 God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
Hebrews 4:16 Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

Morning and Evening Sacrifices

Exodus 29:38–41 This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old. …
John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
John 1:36 When he saw Jesus walking by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”

Moses

Numbers 12:7 But this is not so with My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My house.
Hebrews 3:2 He was faithful to the One who appointed Him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house.
Deuteronomy 18:15 The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him.
Acts 3:20–22 that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus, the Christ, who has been appointed for you. …

Noah

Genesis 5:29 And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
2 Corinthians 1:5 For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

Paschal Lamb

Exodus 12:3–6 Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household. …
Exodus 12:46 It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.
John 19:36 Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”
1 Corinthians 5:7 Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Peace offerings

Leviticus 3:1 “If one’s offering is a peace offering and he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he must present it without blemish before the LORD.
Ephesians 2:14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility
Ephesians 2:16 and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He put to death their hostility.

Red Heifer

Numbers 19:2–6 “This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been placed under a yoke. …
Hebrews 9:13–14 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean, …

Rock of Horeb

Exodus 17:6 Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.
1 Corinthians 10:4 and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.

Samson

Judges 16:30 Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people in it. So in his death he killed more than he had killed in his life.
Colossians 2:14–15 having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross! …

Scape Goat

Leviticus 16:20–22 When Aaron has finished purifying the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting, and the altar, he is to bring forward the live goat. …
Isaiah 53:6 We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:12 Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made …

Sin offering

Leviticus 4:2–3 “Tell the Israelites to do as follows with one who sins unintentionally against any of the LORD’s commandments and does what is forbidden by them: …
Leviticus 4:12 all the rest of the bull— he must take outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place where the ashes are poured out, and there he must burn it on a wood fire on the ash heap.
Hebrews 13:11–12 Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp. …

Solomon

2 Samuel 7:12–13 And when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your descendant after you, who will come from your own body, and I will establish his kingdom. …
Luke 1:32–33 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David, …
1 Peter 2:5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Tabernacle

Exodus 40:2 “On the first day of the first month you are to set up the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.
Exodus 40:34 Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.
Hebrews 9:11 But when Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come, He went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not made by hands and is not a part of this creation.
Colossians 2:9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.

Table and Show Bread

Exodus 25:23–30 You are also to make a table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high. …
John 1:16 From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.
John 6:48 I am the bread of life.

Temple

1 Kings 6:1 In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.
1 Kings 6:38 In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in every detail and according to every specification. So he built the temple in seven years.
John 2:19 Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”
John 2:21 But Jesus was speaking about the temple of His body.

Tree of Life

Genesis 2:9 Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
John 1:4 In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
Revelation 22:2 down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

Trespass offering

Leviticus 6:1–7 And the LORD said to Moses, …
Isaiah 53:10 Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

Vail of the Tabernacle and Temple

Exodus 40:21 Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle, put up the veil for the screen, and shielded off the ark of the Testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him.
2 Chronicles 3:14 He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it.
Hebrews 10:20 by the new and living way opened for us through the curtain of His body,

Zerubbabel

Zechariah 4:7–9 What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth the capstone accompanied by shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’” …
Hebrews 12:2–3 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. …

Types of Christ

Aaron

Abel

Abraham

Adam

Ark

Ark of the Covenant

Atonement, Sacrifices offered on the Day of

Brazen Altar

Brazen Serpent

Burnt offering

Cities of Refuge

David

Eliakim

First-Fruits

Golden Altar

Golden Candlestick

Isaac

Jacob

Jacob's Ladder

Jonah

Joseph

Joshua

Laver of Brass

Leper's offering

Man

Melchizedek

Mercy-Seat

Morning and Evening Sacrifices

Moses

Noah

Paschal Lamb

Peace offerings

Red Heifer

Rock of Horeb

Samson

Scape Goat

Sin offering

Solomon

Tabernacle

Table and Show Bread

Temple

Tree of Life

Trespass offering

Vail of the Tabernacle and Temple

Zerubbabel

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