21 Bible Verses about Excavation

He said, "These seven ewe lambs you will take from my hand, that this may be a witness for me that I dug this well."

(Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.)

the well that the princes made, that the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter and with their staffs."And from the wilderness they went on to Mattanah,

But when Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water,

Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also, so he called its name Sitnah.

And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, saying, "For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."

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

And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile.

He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.

Then he said to me, "Son of man, dig in the wall." So I dug in the wall, and behold, there was an entrance.

"Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug.

who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

"If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.

"Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.

But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money.

And Joseph bought a linen shroud, and taking him down, wrapped him in the linen shroud and laid him in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. And he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.

And he answered him, 'Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure.

And the manager said to himself, 'What shall I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I am not strong enough to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.

"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold that they refine.

Man puts an end to darkness and searches out to the farthest limit the ore in gloom and deep darkness. He opens shafts in a valley away from where anyone lives; they are forgotten by travelers; they hang in the air, far away from mankind; they swing to and fro. As for the earth, out of it comes bread, but underneath it is turned up as by fire.read more.
Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold. "That path no bird of prey knows, and the falcon's eye has not seen it. The proud beasts have not trodden it; the lion has not passed over it. "Man puts his hand to the flinty rock and overturns mountains by the roots. He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing. He dams up the streams so that they do not trickle, and the thing that is hidden he brings out to light.

He cuts out channels in the rocks, and his eye sees every precious thing.