Nose Jewels

Narrator: Chris Genthree
Duration: 1min
 •  1 min. read  •  grade level: 13
These were rings, ornamented with jewels, and generally passed through the right side of the nostril, hanging down by the mouth. This mode of decoration is referred to in Proverbs 11:22: “As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.” In Isaiah 3:22The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, (Isaiah 3:2)1 The nose jewels are mentioned among other adornments of women, which should be taken away in God’s judgments; and in Ezekiel 16:12,12And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head. (Ezekiel 16:12) among the ornaments spoken of symbolically with which God adorned Jerusalem, is “a jewel on thy forehead,” which should however read “a ring upon thy nose.”