21 Bible Verses about Excavation

He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."

Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter, and with their poles." From the wilderness [they traveled] to Mattanah;

Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.

He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."

He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.

All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn't drink of the water of the river.

He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in its midst, and also cut out a winepress therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

Then he said to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door.

"Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock you were cut from, and to the hold of the pit you were dug from.

Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

"Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.

But he who received the one went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord's money.

He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

He answered, 'Lord, leave it alone this year also, until I dig around it, and fertilize it.

"The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don't have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.

"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness. He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth. As for the earth, out of it comes bread; Underneath it is turned up as it were by fire.read more.
Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold. That path no bird of prey knows, neither has the falcon's eye seen it. The proud animals have not trodden it, nor has the fierce lion passed by there. He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots. He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing. He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.

He cuts out channels among the rocks. His eye sees every precious thing.