Sapphire

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index.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.

A precious stone

• Job 28:6 Its rocks are the source of sapphires, containing flecks of gold.
• Job 28:16 It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
• Isaiah 54:11 “O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.
• Ezekiel 28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.

Set in the breastplate

• Exodus 28:18 in the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;

The color of the expanse

• Ezekiel 1:26 Above the expanse over their heads was the likeness of a throne with the appearance of sapphire, and on the throne high above was a figure like that of a man.

Seen in the foundation of the New Jerusalem in John' s apocalyptic vision

• Revelation 21:19 The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald,