Bible Dictionary: Pillars: Stability of the Earth

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1 Samuel 2:8
He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he has set the world on them.
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Psalm 75:3
The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
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Library

In the Beginning God Made the Heaven and the Earth.
... to grow or to perish without rest and without certain stability. ... that a heavier body
prevents the earth from falling ... in the Psalms, "I bear up the pillars of it ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/homily i in the beginning.htm

How Moses Discharged the Part of a Military Leader.
... in earth, and things under the earth, and every ... cannot be represented, shows also
the stability and the ... of images, the ancients erected pillars, and reverenced ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter xxiv how moses discharged the.htm

Psalm LXXV.
... a kind of liquidity [3410] to slip down from the stability of firmness ... I have found,
he saith, the earth sinful. ... I have strengthened the pillars thereof." What ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm lxxv.htm

Hiram, the Inspired Artificer
... in strength." The ideas involved are stability and strength. Possibly the Psalmist
had these pillars in his ... appearance and embodiment of genius upon the earth. ...
/.../milligan/men of the bible some lesser-known/hiram the inspired artificer.htm

The Song of Two Cities
... The sky needs no pillars to hold it up. ... us of the fall of Babylon, of the descent
to earth of the ... to God, and then we may be stable with stability derived from ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the song of two cities.htm

Clairvoyance
... them lines and squares, arches and pillars, has borne into his soul regularity and
stability, form and ... shall be taken down, and the earth dissolved with ...
//christianbookshelf.org/drummond/the ideal life/clairvoyance.htm

The Impending Conflict
... come to deny doctrines which are the very pillars of the ... The earth also is defiled
under the inhabitants thereof ... to be seeking to promote the stability of the ...
/.../white/the great controversy/chapter 36 the impending conflict.htm

The Impending Conflict.
... come to deny doctrines which are the very pillars of the ... The earth also is defiled
under the inhabitants thereof ... to be seeking to promote the stability of the ...
/.../the great controversy between christ and satan /36 the impending conflict.htm

Continued.
... a picturesque allusion to the sand pillars which accompany ... The heavens touch the
earth on the horizon of our vision ... of its inward union with the stability of God ...
//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/the life of david/iii early dayscontinued.htm

The Service Common to the Festivals of the Holy virgin.
... her house, and hath fixed the seven pillars thereof ... Do thou enlighten on earth the
thoughts of those ... O all-holy one, invincible dominion and stability unto thy ...
/.../anonymous/the general menaion/chapter ii the service common.htm

Subtopics

Pillars

Pillars of Memorial in Honor of Idols

Pillars of Memorial: Often Anointed

Pillars of Memorial: Often had Inscriptions

Pillars of Memorial: Sometimes of a Heap of Stones

Pillars of Memorial: Sometimes of a Single Stone

Pillars of Memorial: To Commemorate Remarkable Events

Pillars of Memorial: To Mark the Graves of the Dead

Pillars of Memorial: To Perpetuate Names

Pillars of Memorial: To Witness Covenants

Pillars of Memorial: To Witness Vows