10 Bible Verses about Clay, Uses

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2 Samuel 12:31

He removed the people who were in it and made them do hard labor with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, putting them to work at the brick kiln. This was his policy with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.

Isaiah 41:25

I have stirred up one out of the north and he advances, one from the eastern horizon who prays in my name. He steps on rulers as if they were clay, like a potter treading the clay.

Job 38:14

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.

John 9:6

Having said this, he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva. He smeared the mud on the blind man's eyes

Jeremiah 18:3-4

So I went down to the potter's house and found him working at his wheel. Now and then there would be something wrong with the pot he was molding from the clay with his hands. So he would rework the clay into another kind of pot as he saw fit.

Leviticus 6:28

Any clay vessel it is boiled in must be broken, and if it was boiled in a bronze vessel, then that vessel must be rubbed out and rinsed in water.

Jeremiah 19:1-3

The Lord told Jeremiah, "Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take with you some of the leaders of the people and some of the leaders of the priests. Go out to the part of the Hinnom Valley which is near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Announce there what I tell you. Say, 'Listen to what the Lord says, you kings of Judah and citizens of Jerusalem! The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, "I will bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears about it ring!

1 Kings 7:46

The king had them cast in earth foundries in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.

Nahum 3:14

Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!

Ezekiel 4:1

"And you, son of man, take a brick and set it in front of you. Inscribe a city on it -- Jerusalem.

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