Citations:Kolob

English citations of Kolob

star or planet nearest to throne of God

• 1835, Joseph Smith, The Book of Abraham, 3:3, in The Pearl of Great Price (1851):

  And the Lord said unto me: These are the governing ones; and the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is near unto me, for I am the Lord thy God: I have set this one to govern all those which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest.

• 1868, Catherine Van Valkenburg Waite, The Mormon Prophet and His Harem, or, An Authentic History of Brigham Young, His Numerous Wives and Children, Chicago: J. S. Goodman, page 170:

  He resides in the center of the universe, near the planet Kolob. This planet revolves on its axis once in a thousand of our years, and one revolution of Kolob is a day to the Almighty.

• 1882 September, W. H. H. Sharp, “Astronomy and the Pyramid of Gizeh”, in W. M. Egan, editor, Our Deseret Home, volume 1, number 9, Deseret Home Company, page 194:

  This star is named Kolob and is next to where God personally presides; First is the dwelling place of God; an immanence Urim and Thummim, a planet illuminated ten thousand times ten thousand degrees, more brilliant than the sun, and probably millions of times more so, next or second comes Kolob receiving its powers from the Urim and Thummim or throne of God […]

• 1985, William W. Phelps, “If You Could Hie to Kolob”, in Hymns of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints‎^[1], The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, →ISBN, →OL, Hymn #284:

  If you could hie to Kolob in the twinkling of an eye,
  And then continue onward with that same speed to fly,
  Do you think that you could ever, through all eternity,
  Find out the generation where Gods began to be?

• 2005 December 1, David J. Ridges, Your Study of the Old Testament Made Easier: Part 1, Cedar Fort, page 140:

  Once in a while, members get Kolob confused with the actual planet on which Heavenly Father resides. They are not the same. As you saw in verse 2, above, Kolob is the planet nearest to the planet on which the Father lives.

• 2011, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, “I Believe” (song), The Book of Mormon (musical)

  I believe; that God lives on a planet called Kolob
  I believe; that Jesus has his own planet as well
  And I believe; that the Garden of Eden was in Jackson County, Missouri