100 Bible Verses About Craftsmanship

And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.

And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

And Zillah, she also bare Tubal–cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal–cain was Naamah.

And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.

And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the Lord’s offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it.

Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.

The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.

And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it.

And the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the Lord: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,

The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.

And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.

And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal.

Whether it be in the warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in any thing made of skin;

And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.

And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:

And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.

It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.

Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.

Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.

All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.

The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,

And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.

And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.

And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.

Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.

And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.

And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.

And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.

And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.

The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.

And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.

And they set them up Micah’s graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.

So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.

And of the blue, and purple, and scarlet, they made cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the Lord commanded Moses.

So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,

And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.

Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the Lord put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the Lord had commanded.

And thou shalt make upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure gold.

And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.

And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:

And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.

Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.

And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,

Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.

And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.

Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?

And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,

Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.

Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.

And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.

And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,

And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king’s house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.

And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the Lord:

And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

And he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in a skin, or in any work that is made of skin; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.

And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.

The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.

And the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers’ skins, and the vail of the covering,

And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.

And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;

But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.

And the rulers brought onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the breastplate;

And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.

And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.

And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.

The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court,

And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.

And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;

Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary.

Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.

And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.

And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.

And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.

They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.

And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.

The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.

And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.