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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 19:23-24 See also Jer 17:1
The tablets were inscribed by God Dt 9:9-11 In keeping with ancient Near Eastern practice, the two tablets may have been duplicates of a single covenant document. See also Ex 24:12; Ex 31:18; Dt 4:13; Dt 5:22
The tablets were broken Ex 32:15-19 See also Dt 9:15-17
New tablets were inscribed by God Dt 10:1-4 See also Ex 34:4,28-29
The new tablets were put into the ark Dt 10:5 See also 1Ki 8:9 pp 2Ch 5:10; Heb 9:4
God’s commands were copied onto altar stones Dt 27:2-8 See also Jos 8:30-32
Tablets of unspecified material Hab 2:2 See also Isa 30:8; Lk 1:63
Other surfaces used for writing 1Ki 7:36 The bases of the bronze lavers in Solomon’s temple were engraved; Isa 8:1 Isaiah’s inscription is with a pen on a scroll; Eze 4:1 Ezekiel draws a plan of Jerusalem on a clay tablet. This was a common medium for plans in Babylon.
The commands and teachings of Proverbs Pr 3:3 See also Pr 6:21; Pr 7:3
The new covenant Jer 31:33 Under the new covenant God’s law will be inward, written on human hearts rather than on tablets of stone. See also Eze 36:26-27; 2Co 3:3; Heb 8:10; Heb 10:16
1260 | finger of God |
1349 | covenant at Sinai |
1352 | covenant, the new |
4366 | stones |
5012 | heart |
5306 | engraving |
5352 | inscriptions |
5377 | law, Ten Commandments |
5439 | pen |
5638 | writing |
7306 | ark of the covenant |
7410 | phylactery |