CARVING

Passages on this topic · 61

• Exodus 31:5

  and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship.

• Deuteronomy 7:5

  But you shall deal with them like this. You shall break down their altars, dash their pillars in pieces, and cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their engraved images with fire.

• 1 Kings 6:18

  There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible.

• 1 Kings 6:29

  He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, inside and outside.

• 1 Kings 6:32

  So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold. He spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.

• 1 Kings 6:35

  He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.

• 1 Kings 7:13

  King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre.

• 1 Kings 7:14

  He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in brass. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.

• 1 Kings 7:15

  For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them.

• 1 Kings 7:16

  He made two capitals of molten brass, to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.

• 1 Kings 7:17

  There were nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.

• 1 Kings 7:18

  So he made the pillars; and there were two rows around on the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars: and he did so for the other capital.

• 1 Kings 7:19

  The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits.

• 1 Kings 7:20

  There were capitals above also on the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network. There were two hundred pomegranates in rows around the other capital.

• 1 Kings 7:21

  He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple. He set up the right pillar, and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called its name Boaz.

• 1 Kings 7:22

  On the top of the pillars was lily work: so the work of the pillars was finished.

• 1 Kings 7:23

  He made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in shape. Its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it.

• 1 Kings 7:24

  Under its brim around there were buds which encircled it for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast.

• 1 Kings 7:25

  It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward.

• 1 Kings 7:26

  It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.

• 1 Kings 7:27

  He made the ten bases of brass. The length of one base was four cubits, four cubits its width, and three cubits its height.

• 1 Kings 7:28

  The work of the bases was like this: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges;

• 1 Kings 7:29

  and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.

• 1 Kings 7:30

  Every base had four bronze wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet of it had supports. The supports were cast beneath the basin, with wreaths at the side of each.

• 1 Kings 7:31

  Its mouth within the capital and above was a cubit. Its mouth was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its mouth were engravings, and their panels were square, not round.

• 1 Kings 7:32

  The four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles of the wheels were in the base. The height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.

• 1 Kings 7:33

  The work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel. Their axles, and their rims, and their spokes, and their naves, were all of cast metal.

• 1 Kings 7:34

  There were four supports at the four corners of each base. Its supports were of the base itself.

• 1 Kings 7:35

  In the top of the base there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the base its supports and its panels were of the same.

• 1 Kings 7:36

  On the plates of its supports, and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, each in its space, with wreaths all around.

• 1 Kings 7:37

  He made the ten bases in this way: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.

• 1 Kings 7:38

  He made ten basins of brass. One basin contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on every one of the ten bases one basin.

• 1 Kings 7:39

  He set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house. He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward and toward the south.

• 1 Kings 7:40

  Hiram made the basins, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in Yahweh’s house:

• 1 Kings 7:41

  the two pillars; the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;

• 1 Kings 7:42

  the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;

• 1 Kings 7:43

  the ten bases; the ten basins on the bases;

• 1 Kings 7:44

  the one sea; the twelve oxen under the sea;

• 1 Kings 7:45

  the pots; the shovels; and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in Yahweh’s house, were of burnished brass.

• 1 Kings 7:46

  The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

• 1 Kings 7:47

  Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them. The weight of the brass could not be determined.

• 1 Kings 7:48

  Solomon made all the vessels that were in Yahweh’s house: the golden altar and the table that the show bread was on, of gold;

• 1 Kings 7:49

  and the lamp stands, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;

• 1 Kings 7:50

  the cups, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, of the temple, of gold.

• 1 Kings 7:51

  Thus all the work that king Solomon did in Yahweh’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Chronicles 2:13

  Now I have sent a skillful man, endowed with understanding, of Huram my father’s,

• 2 Chronicles 2:14

  the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, in timber, and in purple, in blue, in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.

• Psalms 74:6

  Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

• Proverbs 7:16

  I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

• Isaiah 44:9

  Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don’t see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.

• Isaiah 44:10

  Who has fashioned a god, or molds an image that is profitable for nothing?

• Isaiah 44:11

  Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They will fear. They will be put to shame together.

• Isaiah 44:12

  The blacksmith takes an ax, works in the coals, fashions it with hammers, and works it with his strong arm. He is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is faint.

• Isaiah 44:13

  The carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house.

• Isaiah 44:14

  He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a cypress tree, and the rain nourishes it.

• Isaiah 44:15

  Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it, and warms himself. Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread. Yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it an engraved image, and falls down to it.

• Isaiah 44:16

  He burns part of it in the fire. With part of it, he eats meat. He roasts a roast, and is satisfied. Yes, he warms himself, and says, “Aha! I am warm. I have seen the fire.”

• Isaiah 44:17

  The rest of it he makes into a god, even his engraved image. He bows down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, “Deliver me; for you are my god!”

• Isaiah 45:20

  “Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save.

• Habakkuk 2:18

  “What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

• Habakkuk 2:19

  Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it.