Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.
The carpenter
Goldsmith
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Bible References
The carpenter
Isaiah 40:19
The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.
Isaiah 44:12
He engraves iron with a tool. He works in the coals, and forms it with hammers, and works it with the strength of his arms. Then, he is hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water, and is weak.
Isaiah 46:6
They pour gold out of the bag, and weigh silver out of the measuring rod, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god; they fall down, yea, they bow down.
Jeremiah 10:3
For the customs of the people are vain; for one cuts a tree out of the forest with the axe, the work of the hands of the workman.
Daniel 3:1
Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its breadth six cubits. He set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
Goldsmith
Isaiah 40:20
He too poor for that offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he looks for a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that will not totter.
Isaiah 46:7
They carry it on the shoulder, they carry it and set it in its place, and it stands; it shall not move from its place. Yes, one shall cry to it, yet it cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
Judges 18:17
And the five men who went up to spy out the land came in there, and took the engraved image and the ephod and the household gods, and the molten image. And the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men who were dressed with weapons of war.
General references
Isaiah 40:19
The workman melts a graven image, and the goldsmith spreads it over with gold, and casts silver chains.