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Bible Dictionary of Animals, Plants and other Objects

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Credit: Zunkir

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Comments: Sceptre or handle; incorporates four lower compartments, each made of three rows of triangular inlays of stone and shell (rings), and an upper sector consisting of strips of gold foil embossed with cylinder seal designs; may have been the handle of a fly whisk. From the royal tombs of Ur, PG 1236. Ca. 2600 BC. British Museum 122201

 

Credit: A. Parrot

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Credit URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org...

Comments: A flail, a crook, and a sekhem scepter from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Eighteenth Dynasty, 14th century BC.

 

From Easton: (Heb. shebet = Gr. skeptron), properly a staff or rod. As a symbol of authority, the use of the sceptre originated in the idea that the ruler was as a shepherd of his people (Genesis 49:10; Numbers 24:17; Psalms 45:6; Isaiah 14:5). There is no example on record of a sceptre having ever been actually handled by a Jewish king.

Verses:

  • Genesis 49:10
  • Numbers 21:18
  • Numbers 24:17
  • Esther 4:11
  • Esther 5:2
  • Esther 8:4
  • Psalms 2:9
  • Psalms 45:6
  • Psalms 60:7
  • Psalms 108:8
  • Psalms 110:2
  • Psalms 125:3
  • Isaiah 14:5
  • Isaiah 30:31
  • Jeremiah 48:17
  • Ezekiel 19:11
  • Ezekiel 19:14
  • Ezekiel 21:10
  • Ezekiel 21:13
  • Amos 1:5
  • Amos 1:8
  • Zechariah 10:11
  • Hebrews 1:8
  • Revelation 2:27
  • Revelation 12:5
  • Revelation 19:15
Bibliography Information
Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​s/sceptre.html. 2024.
 
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