Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.

Silver

Uphaz

Are all

Bible References

Silver

Jeremiah 10:4
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Tarshish

1 Kings 10:22
For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
Ezekiel 27:12
Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for thy wares.

Uphaz

Daniel 10:5
I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with pure gold of Uphaz:

Are all

Psalm 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.

General references

Exodus 20:4
Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Exodus 32:3
And all the people brake off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
Isaiah 40:19
The image, a workman hath cast it , and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it'silver chains.
Ezekiel 27:12
Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for thy wares.

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