The Bible In Paintings >>> “!Bible Quiz!” Series ✝️ JACOB’S DREAM, JACOB’S WIVES, JACOB’S NAME, JACOB’S SONS ✝️

To: Hebrews 11:6

21 posted on 11/09/2023 7:25:55 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)

You’ll need to do the watching on my behalf................

22 posted on 11/09/2023 7:26:26 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)

To: NorthMountain

I knew that was what you were alluding to, but I was trying to stay Biblical................😉

23 posted on 11/09/2023 7:27:06 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)

Benjamin ...For some reason, I don’t need the mnemonic help with him. But that’s a good one for those whose memory is tricky in different ways from mine.

24 posted on 11/09/2023 7:27:42 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)

To: NorthMountain

“Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!” - Golda Meir

25 posted on 11/09/2023 7:28:58 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)

Bonnat’s is always my favorite.

26 posted on 11/09/2023 7:29:01 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)

To: No name given

Do you have a favorite, perhaps?

27 posted on 11/09/2023 7:30:17 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)

Thanks ... I figured you’d get the “ring” reference (see also Gandalf, talking to Bilbo in “The Hobbit”). I didn’t know the ultimately Hebrew etymology of the word, though.

28 posted on 11/09/2023 7:30:25 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)

To: Hebrews 11:6

They did actually make it into a movie, but as per usual for Hollywood, they screwed it up...............

29 posted on 11/09/2023 7:31:14 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)

30 posted on 11/09/2023 7:32:01 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)

Thanks for your recommendation effort. Glad you enjoyed it.

31 posted on 11/09/2023 7:32:28 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)

To: Hebrews 11:6

If you get the chance, hope you can see it. You won't be disappointed.

32 posted on 11/09/2023 8:01:14 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)

To: Hebrews 11:6

There is something about Jacob’s Ladder that inspires so many great artistic representations (though I am not fond of the giant bird’s wings painted onto every angel). Some fantastic works in here.

You know, I can understand how Joseph’s older brothers got seriously fed up with the favored, young punk putting himself on a pedestal. Now they took it a bit far, but I can certainly understand how fed-up they became with him.

33 posted on 11/09/2023 9:44:34 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (“We should not assume civilization is robust”)

To: Scott from the Left Coast

My younger brother is 10-1/2 months younger than I, so you might imagine that I get it, too.

Still, selling him? And then explaining his absence to Dear Old Dad?

34 posted on 11/09/2023 9:53:13 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)

To: Hebrews 11:6

…a bit too far…they could have just roughed him up a little, make him spend a day down in the well.

35 posted on 11/09/2023 10:10:36 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (“We should not assume civilization is robust”)

To: Scott from the Left Coast

LOL. “And while you’re down there, maybe you can have another dream. We’ll want to hear all about it!”

36 posted on 11/09/2023 10:14:16 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)

To: Hebrews 11:6; golux; Phinneous; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; SJackson

Q#13: "AS JACOB WAS RUNNING AWAY FROM ESAU, HE HAD A FAMOUS DREAM ABOUT ANGELS. WHAT WERE THE ANGELS DOING?"
A: ASCENDING AND DESCENDING THE LADDER TO HEAVEN

Nice selections. That dream ladder is of particular interest to me.

No. 10 looks like it could be alive with the Sound of Music, but I haven't seen artwork that actually depicts Jacob's ladder as a musical instrument, or a musical scale.

Probably if I searched diligently, I'd find something. It's the same word as a ladder: sulam. Angels are malakim (messengers), and communication through music goes back to Genesis 4, where the first musical instrument of the Bible is the "harp", the kinnor, and

An arpeggio (Italian: [arˈpeddʒo]) is a type of broken chord in which the notes that compose a chord are individually sounded in a progressive rising or descending order. Arpeggios on keyboard instruments may be called rolled chords.
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The word arpeggio comes from the Italian word arpeggiare, which means to play on a harp. Despite its Italian origins, its plural usage is usually arpeggios rather than arpeggi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpeggio

So you'd think..??

And then for some reason, the modern name of the Biblical Shunem is "Sulam".

That's the home of the unnamed Shunemmite woman and her son, whom Elisha had revived from the dead. The son is traditionally identified as the prophet Habakkuk.

On that 'note', to mention the reasoning behind the tradition, this particular "woman of the ladder" so to speak was told that she would embrace (hug) a son, and the unusual name "Habakkuk" is similar to the "hug" verb.

It may appear that I am trailing off-topic, but not at all, because

there's the tradition about how many harp strings:

And in the days of the Messiah it will have eight strings, as it is stated: "For the Leader, on the eighth: A Psalm of David" (Psalms 12:1). On the eighth string.
What Is the Significance of King David's Harp?

"As it is stated"? The "Shemenith" is the 8th, the one that is the 8th in a line-up.

The 8th is the 1st, one level UP; e.g. the days of the week, or the octave...

DO re mi fa sol la si DO.

In number terms, the 7 is elevated beyond to reach 8, which is synonymous with entry onto the higher transcendental plane.⁴ And the arrival at 50 similarly marks the entry into this exalted state.
Who Knows 50? The distinguished number of transcendence.

Israel's national anthem is The Hope, and what's that drab, rusty globe represent, anyway... Mars (♂️, aka every man)? The Moon during an eclipse? The Moon symbolizes the Kingdom of David.

("Because Hope was a work that was impossible to read using the traditional interpretation of symbolism in painting, Watts intentionally left its meaning ambiguous...")

Synonym for transcend: eclipse.

Hope: a woman removed from sight, hugging the kinnor on her lap. It's got one string left:

Hope is a Symbolist oil painting by the English painter George Frederic Watts,
who completed the first two versions in 1886.
Radically different from previous treatments of the subject,
it shows a lone blindfolded female figure sitting on a globe,
playing a lyre that has only a single string remaining.

Hope:
this exalted state

With a little hope to hug, the dead come right back to life.

For the Leader, on the eighth..

It must be an important painting if the serpent thought to wrap himself around it.

Genesis 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

37 posted on 11/09/2023 11:12:13 AM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)

Thanks, Ezekiel. Quite an Ode to Obama in that last link.

38 posted on 11/09/2023 11:58:36 AM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)

To: Hebrews 11:6

Before I had come upon that info, I hadn’t realized that the hopey-changey platitudes were based on anything “real”.

And it was even more interesting together with the Messianic analogs.

Even BO as “The One”.

Yipes. Perhaps the attraction was in the depiction of gloom, despair, isolation, and desolation.

Well, there’s the whole bit about Haman being hanged on the gallows he had built for Mordecai.

In this case, the rope is that one lone string of hope.

Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

Psalms 137
1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

39 posted on 11/09/2023 1:18:10 PM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️, aka every man)

And it was even more interesting together with the Messianic analogs. Even BO as “The One”. Yipes.

I'll see your Yipes and raise you three Yipes.

40 posted on 11/09/2023 2:00:36 PM PST by Hebrews 11:6 (“It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ” John 21:11)

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