Lily

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

The principal capitals of the temple ornamented with carvings of

• 1 Kings 7:19 And the capitals atop the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.
• 1 Kings 7:22 And the tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the work of the pillars was completed.
• 1 Kings 7:26 It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.

Molded on the rim of the molten laver in the temple

• 1 Kings 7:26 It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.
• 2 Chronicles 4:5 It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold three thousand baths.

Lessons of trust gathered from

• Matthew 6:28–30 And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the lilies of the field grow: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the furna…
• Luke 12:27 Consider how the lilies grow: They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was adorned like one of these.

Figurative

Of the lips of the beloved So 5:13