21 Bible Verses about Excavation

And he said, For these seven ewe-lambs shalt thou take from my hand, that they may be a witness to me, that I have digged this well.

For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.

The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staffs. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:

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

And they digged another well, and contended for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they did not contend: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

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

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

And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones of it, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein: and he expected that it would bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

Then said he to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door.

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

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

Though they dig into the place of the dead, thence shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:

Hear another parable; There was a certain householder, who planted a vineyard, and hedged it around, and digged a wine-press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a remote country:

But he that had received one, went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.

And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulcher which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone to the door of the sepulcher.

And he answering, said to him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:

Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg.

Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.

He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shades of death. The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant: even the waters forgotten by the foot: they are dried up, they have gone away from men. As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.read more.
The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold. There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vultur's eye hath not seen: The lion's whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it. He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing. He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid he bringeth forth to light.

He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.