'Clay' in the Bible

They brought along bedding, bowls, clay basins, wheat, barley, flour, roasted grains, beans, peas,

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

The king had them forged in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah in the Jordan plain.

how much less confidence does he have in those who dwell in houses of clay; who were formed from a foundation in dust and can perish like a moth?

""Please remember that you've made me like clay and you'll return me to dust.

Your maxims are just worthless proverbs; your defensive arguments are made of clay."

"Though he hoards silver like dust, and stores away garments like clay,

Look! As far as God is concerned, I'm just like you are I, too, have been pinched off from a piece of clay.

Like clay is molded by a signet ring, the earth's hills and valleys then stand out like the colors of a garment.

Before your clay pots are placed on a fire of burning thorns whether green or ablaze wrath will sweep them away like a storm.

A clay vessel plated with a thin veneer of silver that's what smooth lips with a wicked heart are.

"You are stirring up one from the north, and they are coming from the rising of the sun; and he will be called by his name. Rulers will arrive like mud; just like a potter, he will trample the clay.

But as for you, O LORD, you are our Father; and we are clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hands.

But the vessel he was working on with the clay was ruined in the potter's hand. So he remade it into another vessel that seemed appropriate to him.

"Israel, can't I deal with you like this potter?" declares the LORD. "Look, Israel, like clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand.

This is what the LORD says: "Go and buy a potter's clay jug. Take along some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.

"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Take these deeds both this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed and put them in a clay pot so they'll last for a long time.

Though the precious people of Zion were like fine gold, how they are valued like clay vessels, the handiwork of a potter!

its legs made of iron, and its feet made partly of iron and partly of clay.

"As you were watching, a rock was quarried but not with human hands and it struck the iron and clay feet of the statue, breaking them to pieces.

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together and became like chaff from a summer threshing floor that the breeze carries away without leaving a trace. Then the rock that struck the statue grew into a huge mountain and filled the entire earth.

"The feet and toes that you saw, made partly of potter's clay and partly of iron, represent a divided kingdom. It will still have the strength of iron, in that you saw iron mixed with clay.

Just as their toes and feet are part iron and part clay, so will the kingdom be both strong and brittle.

Just as you saw iron mixed with clay, so they will mix themselves with human offspring. Furthermore, they won't remain together, just as iron doesn't mix with clay.

Now, just as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without human hands and that it crushed the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold to pieces so also the great God has revealed to the king what will take place after this. Your dream will come true, and its meaning will prove trustworthy."

"Draw water, because a siege is coming! Strengthen your fortresses! Make the clay good and strong! Mix the mortar! Go get your brick molds!

A potter has the right to do what he wants to with his clay, doesn't he? He can make something for a special occasion or something for ordinary use from the same lump of clay.

But we have this treasure in clay jars to show that its extraordinary power comes from God and not from us.

In a large house there are not only utensils made of gold and silver, but also those made of wood and clay. Some are for special use, while others are for ordinary use.

"He will rule them with an iron scepter; shattering them like clay pots.'