Dictionary of Bible Themes A flat, usually rectangular, surface used for writing. Stone tablets, symbolising permanence, were usually engraved with an iron tool. Tablets of moist clay and writing boards of wood or ivory containing a layer of wax were inscribed with a stylus. The term is also used figuratively to refer to the human heart. Job 19:23-24Tablets engraved with an iron tool See also Jeremiah 17:1Deuteronomy 9:9-11 The Ten Commandments were inscribed on stone tablets The tablets were inscribed by God See also Exodus 24:12; 31:18In keeping with ancient Near Eastern practice, the two tablets may have been duplicates of a single covenant document. Deuteronomy 4:13; 5:22Exodus 32:15-19 See also The tablets were broken Deuteronomy 9:15-17Deuteronomy 10:1-4 See also New tablets were inscribed by God Exodus 34:4,28-29Deuteronomy 10:5 See also The new tablets were put into the ark 1 Kings 8:9Hebrews 9:4 pp 2Ch 5:10 Deuteronomy 27:2-8See also God's commands were copied onto altar stones Joshua 8:30-32Habakkuk 2:2 Writing tablets See also Tablets of unspecified material Isaiah 30:8Luke 1:63 1 Kings 7:36 Other surfaces used for writing Isaiah 8:1The bases of the bronze lavers in Solomon's temple were engraved Ezekiel 4:1Isaiah's inscription is with a pen on a scroll Ezekiel draws a plan of Jerusalem on a clay tablet. This was a common medium for plans in Babylon. Proverbs 3:3Tablets of the heart See also The commands and teachings of Proverbs Proverbs 6:21; 7:3Jeremiah 31:33 The new covenant See also Ezekiel 36:26-27Under the new covenant God's law will be inward, written on human hearts rather than on tablets of stone. 2 Corinthians 3:3Hebrews 8:10; 10:16 See also 1265 hand of God1349 covenant at Sinai 1352 covenant, the new 4369 sulphur 5012 heart 5308 equality 5353 interest 5377 law, Ten Commandments 5440 perjury 5652 babies 7306 ark of the covenant 7412 priesthood |
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