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  • Exodus 24:10

    They saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was like a paved work of sapphire stone, like the skies for clearness.

  • Exodus 25:3

    This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass,

  • Exodus 25:4

    blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,

  • Exodus 25:5

    rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,

  • Exodus 26:1

    “Moreover you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman you shall make them.

  • Exodus 26:14

    You shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.

  • Exodus 26:31

    “You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. The work of the skillful workman shall it be made.

  • Exodus 26:36

    “You shall make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.

  • Exodus 27:16

    For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.

  • Exodus 28:4

    These are the garments which they shall make: a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a coat of checker work, a turban, and a sash: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother, and his sons, that he may minister to me in the priest’s office.

  • Exodus 28:5

    They shall take the gold, and the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the fine linen.

  • Exodus 28:6

    “They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skillful workman.

  • Exodus 28:7

    It shall have two shoulder straps joined to the two ends of it, that it may be joined together.

  • Exodus 28:8

    The skillfully woven band, which is on it, that is on him, shall be like its work and of the same piece; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

  • Exodus 28:15

    “You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it.

  • Exodus 28:28

    They shall bind the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate may not swing out from the ephod.

  • Exodus 28:31

    “You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

  • Exodus 28:33

    On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, around its hem; and bells of gold between and around them:

  • Exodus 28:37

    You shall put it on a lace of blue, and it shall be on the sash; on the front of the sash it shall be.

  • Exodus 35:5

    ‘Take from among you an offering to Yahweh. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, Yahweh’s offering: gold, silver, brass,

  • Exodus 35:6

    blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair,

  • Exodus 35:7

    rams’ skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,

  • Exodus 35:23

    Everyone, with whom was found blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats’ hair, rams’ skins dyed red, and sea cow hides, brought them.

  • Exodus 35:25

    All the women who were wise-hearted spun with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.

  • Exodus 35:35

    He has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.

  • Exodus 36:8

    All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman, they made them.

  • Exodus 36:19

    He made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of sea cow hides above.

  • Exodus 36:35

    He made the veil of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim. He made it the work of a skillful workman.

  • Exodus 36:37

    He made a screen for the door of the tent, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of an embroiderer;

  • Exodus 38:18

    The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the width was five cubits, like to the hangings of the court.

  • Exodus 38:23

    With him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a skillful workman, and an embroiderer in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen.

  • Exodus 39:1

    Of the blue, purple, and scarlet, they made finely worked garments, for ministering in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Exodus 39:2

    He made the ephod of gold, blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.

  • Exodus 39:3

    They beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, in the purple, in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, the work of the skillful workman.

  • Exodus 39:4

    They made shoulder straps for it, joined together. At the two ends it was joined together.

  • Exodus 39:5

    The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Exodus 39:21

    They bound the breastplate by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not come loose from the ephod, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Exodus 39:24

    They made on the skirts of the robe pomegranates of blue, purple, scarlet, and twined linen.

  • Exodus 39:29

    and the sash of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Exodus 39:31

    They tied to it a lace of blue, to fasten it on the turban above, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Leviticus 14:4

    then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

  • Leviticus 14:6

    As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water.

  • Leviticus 14:49

    To cleanse the house he shall take two birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

  • Leviticus 14:51

    He shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times.

  • Leviticus 14:52

    He shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, with the living bird, with the cedar wood, with the hyssop, and with the scarlet;

  • Leviticus 16:4

    He shall put on the holy linen coat. He shall have the linen breeches on his body, and shall put on the linen sash, and he shall be clothed with the linen turban. They are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water, and put them on.

  • Leviticus 16:32

    The priest, who is anointed and who is consecrated to be priest in his father’s place, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments.

  • Numbers 4:5

    When the camp moves forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it,

  • Numbers 4:6

    and shall put a covering of sealskin on it, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall put in its poles.

  • Numbers 4:7

    “On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it.

  • Numbers 4:8

    They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover the same with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.

  • Numbers 4:9

    “They shall take a blue cloth, and cover the lamp stand of the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its snuff dishes, and all its oil vessels, with which they minister to it.

  • Numbers 4:10

    They shall put it and all its vessels within a covering of sealskin, and shall put it on the frame.

  • Numbers 4:11

    “On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.

  • Numbers 4:12

    “They shall take all the vessels of ministry, with which they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a blue cloth, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.

  • Numbers 4:13

    “They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it.

  • Numbers 15:38

    “Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them that they should make themselves fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put on the fringe of each border a cord of blue:

  • Numbers 15:39

    and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;

  • Numbers 15:40

    that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.

  • Numbers 19:2

    “This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded. Tell the children of Israel to bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no defect, and which was never yoked.

  • Numbers 19:5

    One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her meat, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn.

  • Numbers 19:6

    The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer.

  • Judges 8:26

    The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, besides the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels’ necks.

  • 2 Samuel 1:24

    You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you delicately in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.

  • 2 Chronicles 2:7

    “Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, in silver, in brass, in iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave engravings, to be with the skillful men who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.

  • 2 Chronicles 2:14

    the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, in timber, and in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.

  • 2 Chronicles 3:14

    He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and ornamented it with cherubim.

  • 2 Chronicles 5:12

    also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets);

  • Esther 8:15

    Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.

  • Job 3:5

    Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

  • Job 10:20

    Aren’t my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • Job 10:21

    before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

  • Job 10:22

    the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’”

  • Job 30:26

    When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.

  • Psalms 51:7

    Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

  • Psalms 107:10

    Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

  • Psalms 107:11

    because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

  • Psalms 143:3

    For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

  • Proverbs 31:21

    She is not afraid of the snow for her household; for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:8

    Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil.

  • Isaiah 1:18

    “Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

  • Isaiah 5:30

    They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

  • Isaiah 8:22

    and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

  • Isaiah 9:19

    Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

  • Isaiah 24:11

    There is a crying in the streets because of the wine. All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone.

  • Isaiah 50:3

    I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.”

  • Isaiah 63:1

    Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”

  • Isaiah 63:2

    Why is your clothing red, and your garments like him who treads in the wine vat?

  • Isaiah 63:3

    “I have trodden the wine press alone; and of the peoples, no one was with me: Yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath. Their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.

  • Jeremiah 10:9

    There is silver beaten into plates, which is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artificer and of the hands of the goldsmith; Blue and purple are their clothing; they are all the work of skillful men.

  • Lamentations 4:5

    Those who fed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

  • Ezekiel 1:26

    Above the expanse that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and on the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man on it above.

  • Ezekiel 10:1

    Then I looked, and see, in the expanse that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

  • Ezekiel 23:6

    who were clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.

  • Daniel 5:7

    The king cried aloud to bring in the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever shall read this writing, and show me its interpretation, shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

  • Daniel 5:16

    But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and dissolve doubts; now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.

  • Daniel 5:29

    Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with purple, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

  • Daniel 7:9

    I saw until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, and its wheels burning fire.

  • Daniel 11:35

    Some of those who are wise shall fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

  • Daniel 12:10

    Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.

  • Joel 2:6

    At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.

  • Joel 2:10

    The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

  • Joel 3:14

    Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of Yahweh is near, in the valley of decision.

  • Joel 3:15

    The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

  • Amos 5:8

    seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

  • Nahum 2:3

    The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.

  • Nahum 2:10

    She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

  • Zephaniah 1:14

    The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near, and hurries greatly, the voice of the day of Yahweh. The mighty man cries there bitterly.

  • Zephaniah 1:15

    That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

  • Matthew 8:12

    but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

  • Matthew 17:1

    After six days, Jesus took with him Peter, James, and John his brother, and brought them up into a high mountain by themselves.

  • Matthew 17:2

    He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and his garments became as white as the light.

  • Matthew 22:13

    Then the king said to the servants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.’

  • Matthew 25:30

    Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

  • Matthew 27:28

    They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.

  • Matthew 28:2

    Behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from the sky, and came and rolled away the stone from the door, and sat on it.

  • Matthew 28:3

    His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.

  • Mark 9:3

    His clothing became glistening, exceedingly white, like snow, such as no launderer on earth can whiten them.

  • Hebrews 9:19

    For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

  • Hebrews 9:20

    saying, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has commanded you.”

  • Hebrews 9:21

    Moreover he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry in the same way with the blood.

  • Hebrews 9:22

    According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

  • Hebrews 9:23

    It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

  • 2 Peter 1:13

    I think it right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you;

  • 2 Peter 2:4

    For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

  • Revelation 1:13

    And among the lamp stands was one like a son of man, clothed with a robe reaching down to his feet, and with a golden sash around his chest.

  • Revelation 1:14

    His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.

  • Revelation 2:17

    He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

  • Revelation 3:4

    Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that did not defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

  • Revelation 3:5

    He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

  • Revelation 3:18

    I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.

  • Revelation 4:4

    Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.

  • Revelation 6:2

    And behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it had a bow. A crown was given to him, and he came out conquering, and to conquer.

  • Revelation 6:11

    A long white robe was given to each of them. They were told that they should rest yet for a while, until their fellow servants and their brothers, who would also be killed even as they were, should complete their course.

  • Revelation 7:9

    After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

  • Revelation 7:13

    One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and from where did they come?”

  • Revelation 7:14

    I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

  • Revelation 12:3

    Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.

  • Revelation 15:6

    The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out, clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing golden sashes around their breasts.

  • Revelation 16:10

    The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,

  • Revelation 17:3

    He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

  • Revelation 17:4

    The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.

  • Revelation 18:12

    merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;

  • Revelation 18:16

    saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!

  • Revelation 19:8

    It was given to her that she would array herself in bright, pure, fine linen: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

  • Revelation 19:11

    I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.

  • Revelation 19:14

    The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen.

  • Revelation 20:11

    I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them.

From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).