Thematic Bible: Arts of the


Thematic Bible




Then I went down to the potter's house, and he was doing his work on the stones. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofPotterWheels

The valued sons of Zion, whose price was the best gold, are looked on as vessels of earth, the work of the hands of the potter! Verse ConceptsClayPotterThings Like GoldGood PeoplePrice Of PeopleWhat Value Is Man?Worthweight

And the Lord said to me, Put it into the store-house, the price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver and put them into the store-house in the house of the Lord. Verse ConceptsPotterProphecies Concerning ChristExpensivePrice Set On Individuals

With the work of a jeweller, like the cutting of a stamp, the names of the children of Israel are to be cut on them, and they are to be fixed in twisted frames of gold. Verse ConceptsCraftsmenArts And Crafts, Types ofSealsPlaitingengravingGold Items For The Tabernacl

For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time: Verse ConceptsShining FacesMinistry, Nature OfMoses, Significance OfSpiritually DeadLight Of God's PeopleengravingGod Bestowing GloryMinistry

See, your name is marked on my hands; your walls are ever before me. Verse ConceptsengravingArtCherishingGod's HandWalled TownsWriting On Peoplescars

And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth. Verse ConceptsBricksequipping, physicalBakingBuilding

Give these men no more dry stems for their brick-making as you have been doing; let them go and get the material for themselves. But see that they make the same number of bricks as before, and no less: for they have no love for work; and so they are crying out and saying, Let us go and make an offering to our God.

Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.

And the best gold for the altar of perfumes; and gold for the design of the carriage, for the winged ones whose wings were outstretched covering the ark of the Lord's agreement. Verse ConceptsWingsCherubim, As DecorationsHeavenly Chariots

But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap. He will take his seat, testing and cleaning the sons of Levi, burning away the evil from them as from gold and silver; so that they may make offerings to the Lord in righteousness.

Now on their way, when David came back after the destruction of the Philistine, the women came out of all the towns of Israel, with songs and dances, meeting David with melody and joy and instruments of music. Verse ConceptsJoy, And Human ExperienceLeisure, And PastimesVirginMusic To Celebratehomecoming

And David gave orders to the chief of the Levites to put their brothers the music-makers in position, with instruments of music, corded instruments and brass, with glad voices making sounds of joy. Verse ConceptsHarpsLyreMusiciansMusical Instruments, types ofSingersOccupationsSingingSongsCymbalsInstrumentalistsLyres

And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David, with cedar-trees and woodworkers and stoneworkers: and they made David a house. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofCraftsmenMessengers Sent OutCedarCarpentersBuildingMasonsStonesZion, As A PlaceCommerceCedar Wood

Then the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who were responsible for getting the work done on the Lord's house, and with it they got wall-builders and woodworkers and metal-workers to put the house of the Lord in good order again. Verse ConceptsCraftsmenBronzeCarpentersHiringIronMasonsreinforcement

And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean. Verse ConceptsAltars, Made OfDefilement, Ceremonial CausesArchitectureToolsCutting StonesLack Of Holiness

And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and workers of stone and wood, and experts in every sort of work, Verse ConceptsCarpentersWisdom, Human NatureMen Workingcraftsmanship

And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so. And the forty days needed for making the body ready went by: and there was weeping for him among the Egyptians for seventy days.

So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt. Verse ConceptsAge, Lived Over 100embalmingBurials, FeaturesPreparation For BurialAge At DeathDeath ApproachingImmigrants

And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, who is the father of every maker of cutting instruments of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofAbel and CainBronzeequipping, physicalIronMetalsToolsInventionsBlacksmithsBrassNamed SistersBronze Shacklesmakeup

Now there was no iron-worker in all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, For fear the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears: Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofMetalworkersBlacksmiths

And all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen. Verse ConceptsLinenSkillSpinning And WeavingRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothSkilled PeopleBlue Purple And ScarletWomen Working

She puts her hands to the cloth-working rod, and her fingers take the wheel. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofFingersOccupationsSpinning And Weaving


And Zillah gave birth to Tubal-cain, who is the father of every maker of cutting instruments of brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofAbel and CainBronzeequipping, physicalIronMetalsToolsInventionsBlacksmithsBrassNamed SistersBronze Shacklesmakeup

In those days, I saw in Judah some who were crushing grapes on the Sabbath, and getting in grain and putting it on asses; as well as wine and grapes and figs and all sorts of goods which they took into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I gave witness against them on the day when they were marketing food. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofFig treeAgriculture, TermsGrapesReformationRest, PhysicalWinepressFigsTreading GrapesSabbath Violated

I have been crushing the grapes by myself, and of the peoples there was no man with me: in my wrath and in my passion, they were crushed under my feet; and my robes are marked with their life-blood, and all my clothing is red. Verse ConceptsGod AloneCovered With Blood

The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in you, making your boards watertight: all the ships of the sea with their seamen were in you trading in your goods. Verse ConceptsCraftsmenArts And Crafts, Types ofSealing ThingsMarinersShips For TradingSkilled People

Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do trade, your seamen and those guiding your ships, those who make your boards watertight, and those who do business with your goods, and all your men of war who are in you, with all who have come together in you, will go down into the heart of the seas in the day of your downfall. Verse ConceptsMarinersSoldiersSealing ThingsThings Fallingsailing

Now after these things the chief servant who had the care of the wine, and the chief bread-maker in Pharaoh's house, did something against Pharaoh's orders; Verse ConceptsCupbearerBakersArts And Crafts, Types ofOffenceButlersWronging Other People

Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers. Verse ConceptsGirlsBakersBakingArts And Crafts, Types ofPerfumeBaking Breadcooking

And make these into a holy oil, a perfume made by the art of the perfume-maker; it is to be a holy oil. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofAnointing With OilPerfumeAaron, As High PriestOlive OilDrugs

And make from them a perfume, such as is made by the art of the perfume-maker, mixed with salt, and clean and holy. Verse ConceptsPerfumePure ThingsSourness

And with him was Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; a designer and a trained workman, expert in needlework of blue and purple and red and the best linen. Verse ConceptsLinenOccupationsSkillRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothengravingBlue Purple And Scarlet

To them he has given knowledge of all the arts of the handworker, of the designer, and the expert workman; of the maker of needlework in blue and purple and red and the best linen, and of the maker of cloth; in all the arts of the designer and the trained workman they are expert. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofCraftsmenRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothengravingSkilled PeopleFilling PeopleBlue Purple And ScarletWisdomGifts And Talentsartistswoodworkingcraftsmanship

So he gave the silver back to his mother. Then his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a metal-worker who made a pictured image and a metal image from them: and it was in the house of Micah. Verse ConceptsCraftsmenMetalworkersSkill

Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men. Verse ConceptsColors, BlueGoldSilverSkillToolsWisdom, Human NatureCommercePurple ClothesSkilled Peopleartistscraftsmanship

In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden. Verse ConceptsNoahVineyardPlanting VineyardsFarmersCultivationActivity BegunAgricultureFarming

Then again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his brother. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer. Verse ConceptsAbel and CainAbelArts And Crafts, Types ofHorticultureShepherds, As OccupationsTilling The SoilFarmersAnimals, Types OfThose Who Kept StockPossessing SheepTwin BrothersFarming

Go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them; Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalGardensWaiting Till Marriage

Jesus said to her, Woman, why are you weeping? who are you looking for? She, taking him for the gardener, said to him, Sir, if you have taken him away from here, say where you have put him and I will take him away. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofHorticultureLordship, Human And DivineCarrying Dead BodiesTaking ChristWhere Are People?


(All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.) Verse ConceptsFlowersCarvings Of FlowersCedarArtCarvingCedar Wood

To them he has given knowledge of all the arts of the handworker, of the designer, and the expert workman; of the maker of needlework in blue and purple and red and the best linen, and of the maker of cloth; in all the arts of the designer and the trained workman they are expert. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofCraftsmenRed MaterialBlue ClothPurple ClothengravingSkilled PeopleFilling PeopleBlue Purple And ScarletWisdomGifts And Talentsartistswoodworkingcraftsmanship

And when Jesus was nailed to the cross, the men of the army took his clothing, and made a division of it into four parts, to every man a part, and they took his coat: now the coat was without a join, made out of one bit of cloth. Verse ConceptsClothBody Of Christ, Physical DeathCrucifixion, Of ChristDressInner GarmentsDividing PlunderGarmentscrucifixion

And Adah gave birth to Jabal: he was the father of such as are living in tents and keep cattle. Verse ConceptsNomadsTentsSpiritual FathersThose Who Kept Stock

And because he was of the same trade, he was living with them, and they did their work together; for by trade they were tent-makers. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofTentsIndustry, Examples OfTentmakingLike Good PeopleStaying Temporarilypartnershipvocation

And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David, with cedar-trees and woodworkers and stoneworkers: and they made David a house. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofCraftsmenMessengers Sent OutCedarCarpentersBuildingMasonsStonesZion, As A PlaceCommerceCedar Wood


Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan and the Rab-saris and the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah, with a strong force. And they went up and came to Jerusalem, and took up their position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman's field. Verse ConceptsCommanderLargenessOccupationsSiegesActual Attacks On JerusalemWater ChannelLarge Armies


And he was living in Joppa for some time with Simon, a leather-worker. Verse ConceptsTanningOccupations

Who is living with Simon, a leather-worker, whose house is by the sea. Verse ConceptsLeatherArts And Crafts, Types ofOccupationsSeashores

The people of Zidon and Arvad were your boatmen; the wise men of Zemer were in you; they were guiding your ships; The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in you, making your boards watertight: all the ships of the sea with their seamen were in you trading in your goods.

Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers. Verse ConceptsGirlsBakersBakingArts And Crafts, Types ofPerfumeBaking Breadcooking

And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofPloughingWeaponsPloughmenAssignment

And King Solomon made a sea-force of ships in Ezion-geber, by Eloth, on the Red Sea, in the land of Edom. Verse ConceptsThe NavyAccumulatingOther References To The Red Sea

The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofBeauty, In ArtefactsChainsGoldMetalworkersGoldsmithscraftsmanship

And he said to her, If they only put round me new thick cords which have never been used, then I will become feeble and will be like any other man. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofUnused

Give orders to all the wise-hearted workmen, whom I have made full of the spirit of wisdom, to make robes for Aaron, so that he may be made holy as my priest. Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofGiving, Of TalentsOccupationsWisdom, Human NatureWisdom, Source Of HumanConsecrationSewingGod Gives Wisdomcraftsmanship

Out of Ephraim they came down into the valley; after you, Benjamin, among your tribesmen; from Machir came down the captains, and from Zebulun those in whose hand is the ruler's rod. Verse ConceptsCaptainsRankRootsStaff

And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood; Verse ConceptsRamsAnimals, Types OfDyeingAnimal SkinsRed Material

For there was a certain man named Demetrius, a silver-worker, who made silver boxes for the images of Diana, and gave no small profit to the workmen; Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofCraftsmenSculptureShrinesSilverSkill

Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire. Verse ConceptsIronMinerals

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