21 Bible Verses about Excavation

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Genesis 21:30

And he said, That thou take the seven ewe-lambs of my hand, that they may be a witness to me that I have dug this well.

Genesis 26:15

And all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped them and filled them with earth.

Numbers 21:18

Well which princes digged, which the nobles of the people hollowed out at the word of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah;

Genesis 26:19

And Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

Genesis 26:21

And they dug another well, and they strove for that also; and he called the name of it Sitnah.

Genesis 26:22

And he removed thence and dug another well; and they did not strive for that. And he called the name of it Rehoboth, and said, For now Jehovah has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

Genesis 26:25

And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of Jehovah. And he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants dug a well.

Exodus 7:24

And all the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.

Isaiah 5:2

And he dug it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine; and he built a tower in the midst of it, and also hewed out a winepress therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes.

Ezekiel 8:8

And he said unto me, Son of man, dig now through the wall; and I digged through the wall, and behold, a door.

Isaiah 51:1

Hearken unto me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek Jehovah: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged.

Job 3:21

Who long for death, and it cometh not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

Amos 9:2

Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to the heavens, thence will I bring them down;

Matthew 21:33

Hear another parable: There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and made a fence round it, and dug a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and left the country.

Matthew 25:18

But he that had received the one went and dug in the earth, and hid the money of his lord.

Mark 15:46

And having bought fine linen, and having taken him down, he swathed him in the fine linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was cut out of rock, and rolled a stone to the door of the sepulchre.

Luke 16:3

And the steward said within himself, What shall I do; for my lord is taking the stewardship from me? I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg.

Job 28:1

Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold which they refine;

Job 28:3-11

Man putteth an end to the darkness, and exploreth to the utmost limit, the stones of darkness and of the shadow of death. He openeth a shaft far from the inhabitants of the earth: forgotten of the foot, they hang suspended; away below men they hover. As for the earth, out of it cometh bread, and underneath it is turned up as by fire;read more.
The stones of it are the place of sapphires, and it hath dust of gold. It is a path no bird of prey knoweth, and the vulture's eye hath not seen it; The proud beasts have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed over it. Man putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock, he overturneth the mountains by the root. He cutteth out channels in the rocks, and his eye seeth every precious thing. He bindeth the streams that they drip not, and what is hidden he bringeth forth to light.

Job 28:10

He cutteth out channels in the rocks, and his eye seeth every precious thing.

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