A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible
- Heart Knoweth its own Bitterness, The
- Heart of Darkness
- Hell Gate
- Hills, The
- Hireling, The
- Ho, everyone that thirsteth
- Ho, everyone that thirsteth
- Holy Baptism (II)
- Holy Innocents, The
- Holy of Holies, The
- Holy sonnets
- Holy War, The
- I am the Way
- I do not believe that David killed Goliath
- I went to heaven
- I will lift up my eyes unto the hills
- Ichabod
- If it chance your eye offend you
- In death Divided
- In Salem dwelt a glorious king
- In the beginning
- In the beginning was the [3Word3]
- In the Wilderness
- In time of 'The Breaking of the Nations'
- Incarnation and Passion, The
- Iniquity of the fathers upon the children, The
- Isaac's Marriage
- Isle of Patmos, The
- Jacob
- Jacob
- Jacob's Ladder
- Jacob's Ladder, The
- Jacob's Wives
- Jehovah-Jireh
- Jehu
- Jephthah's Daughter
- Jericho
- Jerusalem the golden
- Jesus
- Jesus and his Mother
- Jesus weeping
- Jesus weeping
- Job
- Job I
- John
- Jonah
- Jordan
- Joseph
- Joseph's Coat
- Joshua at Schechem
A-Z: Literary titles from the Bible: Jacob's Ladder, The
Genre
PoemDefinition
Jacob dreams of a ladder to heaven which God and the angels ascend and descend onCultural References
Big ideas: AngelsIn the Old Testament the son of Isaac and Rebekah and twin brother of Esau. He wrestled with God and was often devious.
In the Old Testament book of Genesis, Jacob has a dream and sees a ladder leading up to heaven, with angels going up and down.
In many religions, the place where God dwells, and to which believers aspire after their death. Sometimes known as Paradise.
The Bible describes God as the unique supreme being, creator and ruler of the universe.
Supernatural beings closely linked with the work of God; his messengers, traditionally portrayed as having a winged human form.
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