21 Bible Verses about Excavation

And he saith, 'For -- the seven lambs thou dost accept from my hand, so that it becometh a witness for me that I have digged this well;'

and all the wells which his father's servants digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines have stopped them, and fill them with dust.

A well -- digged it have princes, Prepared it have nobles of the people, With the lawgiver, with their staves.' And from the wilderness they journeyed to Mattanah,

And Isaac's servants dig in the valley, and find there a well of living water,

and they dig another well, and they strive also for it, and he calleth its name 'Hatred.'

And he removeth from thence, and diggeth another well, and they have not striven for it, and he calleth its name Enlargements, and saith, 'For -- now hath Jehovah given enlargement to us, and we have been fruitful in the land.'

and he buildeth there an altar, and preacheth in the name of Jehovah, and stretcheth out there his tent, and there Isaac's servants dig a well.

and all the Egyptians seek water round about the river to drink, for they have not been able to drink of the waters of the River.

And he fenceth it, and casteth out its stones, And planteth it with a choice vine, And buildeth a tower in its midst, And also a wine press hath hewn out in it, And he waiteth for the yielding of grapes, And it yieldeth bad ones!

and He saith unto me, 'Son of man, dig, I pray thee, through the wall;' and I dig through the wall, and lo, an opening.

Hearken unto Me, ye pursuing righteousness, Seeking Jehovah, Look attentively unto the rock -- ye have been hewn, And unto the hole of the pit -- ye have been digged.

Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures.

If they dig through into sheol, From thence doth My hand take them, And if they go up the heavens, From thence I cause them to come down.

'Hear ye another simile: There was a certain man, a householder, who planted a vineyard, and did put a hedge round it, and digged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad.

and he who did receive the one, having gone away, digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.

And he, having brought fine linen, and having taken him down, wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre that had been hewn out of a rock, and he rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre,

'And he answering saith to him, Sir, suffer it also this year, till that I may dig about it, and cast in dung;

And the steward said in himself, What shall I do, because my lord doth take away the stewardship from me? to dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed: --

Surely there is for silver a source, And a place for the gold they refine;

An end hath he set to darkness, And to all perfection he is searching, A stone of darkness and death-shade. A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered. The earth! from it cometh forth bread, And its under-part is turned like fire.read more.
A place of the sapphire are its stones, And it hath dust of gold. A path -- not known it hath a ravenous fowl, Nor scorched it hath an eye of the kite, Nor trodden it have the sons of pride, Not passed over it hath the fierce lion. Against the flint he sent forth his hand, He overturned from the root mountains. Among rocks, brooks he hath cleaved, And every precious thing hath his eye seen. From overflowing floods he hath bound, And the hidden thing bringeth out to light.

Among rocks, brooks he hath cleaved, And every precious thing hath his eye seen.