Bible Dictionary: Rings: Made of Gold and Set With Precious Stones

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Numbers 31:50,51
We have therefore brought an oblation for the LORD, what every man has gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the LORD.
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Songs 5:14
His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
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Against Excessive Fondness for Jewels and Gold Ornaments.
... Fetters, seals, chains, rings, powders ... upbraiding the Hebrews by the prophet, says,
"They made to Baal ... it is better to buy her than treasures of gold and silver ...
/.../the instructor paedagogus/chapter xiiiagainst excessive fondness for.htm

Introduction.
... He is a creature, He is not the Creator; if He was made, He did ... Topaz (gold -brown)
11 ... fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/introduction 4.htm

Concerning the Tabernacle which Moses Built in the Wilderness for ...
... to the rings; for they were not entire rings; but before ... each heap, one above another:
they were made of two ... was set a candlestick of cast gold, hollow within ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 6 concerning the tabernacle.htm

High Priest
... priest, the breast-plate (rationale); a gorget, ten inches square, made of the ... large
for the admission of this pectoral, were four rings of gold, to which ...
/.../conversion of a high priest into a christian worker/chapter iv high priest.htm

Following the Cloud.
... It was so made that it could be taken down and ... Ark of Testimony," as it was called,
had rings at the ... there was a wonderful breast-plate of gold set with twelve ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter xii following the cloud.htm

Among the People, and with the Pharisees
... Sometimes the two ankle-rings were fastened together, which would ... If to all this
we add gold and diamond ... language of our Lord, the Pharisees made "broad their ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/chapter 13 among the people.htm

The City of Gold
... And yet Rome should have made a vivid appeal to this cultured ... have celebrated it,
Rome is the city of gold"aurata Roma. ... Rows of rings were worn on each finger ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bertrand/saint augustin/i the city of gold.htm

Imperial Tombs.
... and dry brushwood were collected and set afire, and the ... of exquisite taste, and a
lamp, made of gold ... one hundred and fifty objects,"gold rings with engraved ...
/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/chapter iv imperial tombs.htm

An Old Subscription List
... The list begins with 'bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels
of gold.' And then it ... black goat's hair which was to be made into the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/an old subscription list.htm

Treatise ii. On the Dress of virgins.
... clusters of pearls, and their armlets and rings, and earrings ... arranged necklaces
with stones set in gold, and with ... God willed that wounds should be made in the ...
/.../cyprian/the treatises of cyprian/treatise ii on the dress.htm