The Bible In Paintings: JACOB'S STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

[Hebrews 11:6]

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G E N E S I S
CHAPTER 28:10-22

Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran. He stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. There above it stood the LORD, and he said: “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. ALL PEOPLES ON EARTH WILL BE BLESSED THROUGH YOU AND YOUR OFFSPRING. I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it.” He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.”

Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it. He called that place Bethel.

Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear so that I return safely to my father’s house, then the LORD will be my God and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.”

New International Version ©1984, Abrdgd, EMPHASES Added

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GERBRAND VAN DEN EECKHOUT
"Jacob's Dream"

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BARTOLOME ESTEBAN MURILLO
"Jacob's Dream"

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JACQUES STELLA
"Jacob's Ladder"

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WILLIAM BLAKE
"Jacob's Dream"

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FRANCESCO MAFFEI
"Jacob's Dream"

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CIGOLI
"Jacob's Dream"

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DOMENICO FETTI
"Jacob's Dream of the Ladder to Heaven"

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GIORGIO VASARI
"Jacob's Dream"

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JACQUES STELLA
"Jacob's Ladder"

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CORNELIS JACOBSZ DELFF
"Jacob’s Dream"

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JULIUS SCHNORR VON CAROLSFELD
"Jacob's Dream"

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MICHAEL WILLMANN
"Jacob's Dream"

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NICOLAS DIPRE
"Jacob's Dream"

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"Dream of Jacob"

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SALVATOR ROSA
"Jacob's Dream"

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BARTOLOMÉ ESTEBAN MURILLO
"Jacob's Dream"

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GUSTAV DORÉ
"Jacob's Dream"

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JIM CAMPBELL and BENJAMIN BERGERY
"Jacob’s Dream"

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LUTHER TERRY
"Jacob's Dream"

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GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO
"Jacob's Dream"

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"Jacob's Ladder"

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NICOLAS DIPRE
"Jacob's Ladder"

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JAMES TISSOT
"Jacob's Dream"

[larrytown]

Interesting - only one had a handrail.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Angels don’t fall.

[larrytown]

LOL!

Someone didn’t tell about a 1/3 of them...

I’m more interested that only the one artist thought that angels (unfallen) would need a handrail :)

[Hebrews 11:6]

He didn’t think it through. In his world, all stairways have railings, so out of habit....

[Ezekiel]

The Bible In Paintings: JACOB'S STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

"ladder" = sulam [סולם], the word for a musical scale.

Climb up, way up high!!!
Climb up, way up high!!!
Climb up, way up high!!!

Well a, well a, well a, heavenly angel
I want you for my girl
When I kissed your sweet, sweet lips
I knew that you were out of this world
I'll build a stairway to heaven
I'll climb to the highest star
I'll build a stairway to heaven
'Cause heaven is where you are! (Gen 35:15-20)

~ Neil "Tzedakah"

Stairway To Heaven - Neil Sedaka (Live At The Royal Albert Hall)

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The Giving of the Torah:

Friday, June 12, 1959
6 Sivan, 5719

Stairway to Heaven
Neil Sedaka
Rock with Sedaka (Expanded Edition)

RELEASE DATE
June 12, 1959

Key: F Major [סולם פה מז'ור] = 474 = da'at [דעת], knowledge
BPM: 127, Allegro (fast, quick, and bright)

"Fa" is not just a long long way to run, but also the word "here", po [פה], and mouth, pe. As the numeral 85, it's the number of letters between the inverted nuns, because

somewhere out there. . . is a young lady who, I think. . . will never be a nun:

R. Shimon Ben Gamliel says: This section will be uprooted from its place and written in its rightful place in the future (but for now it is in its correct location). Why is it written here? So as to separate between first and second retribution [3]. Second retribution is "and the people grumbled". First retribution is "and they traveled from the mountain of G-d (i.e., they eagerly run away from G-d's presence)". Where is it its appropriate place? Rav Ashi says: "In the section dealing with the disposition of the Israelites according to their banners and their travelling arrangements" (Numbers 1:52-2:34, Shabbath 116a).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_nun#Rabbinic_basis

"180" -- idiomatic for a complete turn around.

face [panim, פנים] = 180
FACE: fa [פה] + la [לה] + do [דו] + mi [מי] =

85 + 35 + 10 + 50 = 180

"Do-re-mi-fa-so and so on are only the tools we use to build a song. Once you have them in your head you can sing a million different tunes. . . by mixing them up."

Arpeggio

An arpeggio is a type of broken chord, in which the notes that compose a chord are played or sung in a rising or descending order.

An arpeggio may also span more than one octave.

The word arpeggio comes from the Italian word arpeggiare, which means to play on a harp.

Even though the notes of an arpeggio are not played or sung all together at the same time, listeners hear the sequence of notes as forming a chord.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpeggio

"An arpeggiated chord may be written with a wavy vertical line in front of the chord."

 

Climb up, way up high...

Fa.

Pei [פ] + hei [ה],

80 + 5:

"NASA spent about $80 million to build Ingenuity and about $5 million to operate the helicopter."

Ingenuity (helicopter) -- Conceptual_design

[Hebrews 11:6]

I loved Neal Sedaka before I became a believer, but since Jesus gave me Free Admission to His stairway I’ve learned to love His songbook far more. Neal rocks, but not like The Rock.

[BenLurkin]

WILLIAM BLAKE is unique.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Blake is one of several artists appearing regularly in these pages whose works are instantly identifiable: Tissot, Doré, Qi, Chagall....

[delchiante]

No need to divulge, but do any of those temperatures come with snakes and scorpions, or Mountain lions and earthquakes, or snakes, gators and Florida man ??

[Ezekiel]

I loved Neal Sedaka before I became a believer, but since Jesus gave me Free Admission to His stairway I’ve learned to love His songbook far more. Neal rocks, but not like The Rock.

If certain people had their way, David's dream temple would turn into what looks like some kind of a fun carnival, where they've got bouncy castles, and hot tubs, and saunas.

As I've mentioned before, the place of first light (and first wind) is at the Bigrock. The address: 37 Graves.

A stone's throw from those wacky Canucks, no less.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Near Riverside, CA--greater LA. Quakes galore!

My dad was a geology major in college, so when choosing a retirement home he ordered the USGS earthquake-fault maps to pick the "safest" spot (they settled on Oceanside).

[delchiante]

:)

Darn shame what govt did to that state..

I lived in San Diego County for a little..
Gray out Davis era..