21 Bible Verses about Excavation

And he answered, "Seven lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well."

insomuch that they stopped, and filled up with earth, all the wells which his father's servants digged in his father Abraham's time.

And from this wilderness they went to Mattanah,

As Isaac's servants digged in the valley, they found a well of springing water.

Then digged they another well, and they strove for that also. Therefore called he it Sitnah.

And then he departed thence, and digged another well for the which they strove not: therefore called he it Rehoboth, saying, "The LORD hath now made us room, and we are increased upon the earth."

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

And the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink, for they could not drink of the water of the river.

This he hedged, this he walled round about, and planted it with goodly grapes. In the midst of it builded he a tower, and made a wine press therein. And afterward when he looked that it should bring him grapes, it brought forth thorns.

Then said he unto me, "Thou son of man, dig through the wall." And when I digged through the wall, behold there was a door.

Hearken unto me, ye that follow righteousness and seek the LORD. Look unto the rock ye were cut out, and to the cave and pit ye were digged out.

Which long for death, if it come not;

Though they were buried in the hell, my hand shall fetch them from thence. Though they climb up to heaven, yet shall I cast them down.

"Hearken another similitude. There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and made a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a strange country:

But he that received the one, went and digged a pit in the earth and hid his master's money.

And he bought a linen cloth, and took him down and wrapped him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb, that was hewn out of the rock. And rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.

And he answered and said unto him, 'Lord let it alone this year also, till I dig round about it, and dung it,

The steward said within himself, 'What shall I do? For my master will take away from me the stewardship. I cannot dig, and to beg, I am ashamed.

There are places were silver is molten, and where gold is tried;

The darkness shall once come to an end: he can seek out the ground of all things; the stones, the dark, and the shadow of death. With the river of water parteth he asunder the strange people, that knoweth no good neighborhead; such as are rude, unmannerly and boisterous. He bringeth food out of the earth, and that which is under, consumeth he with fire.read more.
There is found a place, whose stones are clean Sapphires, and where the clots of the earth are gold. There is a way also that the birds know not, that no vulture's eye hath seen; wherein the proud and high minded walk not, and where no lion cometh. There putteth he his hand upon the stony rocks, and overthroweth the mountains. Rivers flow out of the rocks, and look: what is pleasant, his eye seeth it. Out of drops bringeth he great floods together, and the thing that is hid bringeth he to light.

Rivers flow out of the rocks, and look: what is pleasant, his eye seeth it.