21 Bible Verses about Excavation

He replied, "You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof that I dug this well."

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father's servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

The well which the princes dug, which the leaders of the people opened with their scepters and their staffs." And from the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;

When Isaac's servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,

His servants dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it Sitnah.

Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac named it Rehoboth, saying, "For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land."

Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the Lord. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the Nile.

He built a hedge around it, removed its stones, and planted a vine. He built a tower in the middle of it, and constructed a winepress. He waited for it to produce edible grapes, but it produced sour ones instead.

He said to me, "Son of man, dig into the wall." So I dug into the wall and discovered a doorway.

"Listen to me, you who pursue godliness, who seek the Lord! Look at the rock from which you were chiseled, at the quarry from which you were dug!

to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,

Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, my hand would pull them up from there. Even if they could climb up to heaven, I would drag them down from there.

"Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a fence around it, dug a pit for its winepress, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenant farmers and went on a journey.

But the one who had received one talent went out and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money in it.

After Joseph bought a linen cloth and took down the body, he wrapped it in the linen and placed it in a tomb cut out of the rock. Then he rolled a stone across the entrance of the tomb.

But the worker answered him, 'Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer on it.

Then the manager said to himself, 'What should I do, since my master is taking my position away from me? I'm not strong enough to dig, and I'm too ashamed to beg.

"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined.

Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness. Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways. The earth, from which food comes, is overturned below as though by fire;read more.
a place whose stones are sapphires and which contains dust of gold; a hidden path no bird of prey knows -- no falcon's eye has spotted it. Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it. On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand; he has overturned mountains at their bases. He has cut out channels through the rocks; his eyes have spotted every precious thing. He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.

He has cut out channels through the rocks; his eyes have spotted every precious thing.