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Credit: © Andrew Dunn, 5 November 2005. Website: http://www.andrewdunnphoto.com/

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Comments: Lewes Bonfire, discarded torch

 

Credit: Ra'ike

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Comments: Burning torches

 

Credit: Pearson Scott Foresman

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Comments: A burning stick of resinous wood or twist of tow used to give light and usually carried in the hand

 

From Easton: Torches - On the night of his betrayal, when our Lord was in the garden of Gethsemane, Judas, "having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and PhariSee s, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons" (John 18:1-3). Although it was the time of full moon, yet in the valley of the Kidron "there fell great, deep shadows from the declivity of the mountain and projecting rocks; there were there caverns and grottos, into which a fugitive might retreat; finally, there were probably a garden-house and tower, into whose gloom it might be necessary for a searcher to throw light around." Lange's Commentary. (Nahum 2:3, "torches," Revised Version, "steel," probably should be "scythes" for war-chariots.)

Verses:

  • Genesis 15:17
  • Judges 7:16
  • Judges 7:20
  • Judges 15:4
  • Judges 15:5
  • Isaiah 7:4
  • Isaiah 50:11
  • Isaiah 62:1
  • Ezekiel 1:13
  • Daniel 10:6
  • Nahum 2:4
  • Zechariah 12:6
  • John 18:3
  • Acts 16:29
  • Revelation 4:5
  • Revelation 8:10
Bibliography Information
Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​apo/​t/torch.html. 2024.
 
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