40 Bible Verses about craftsmanship
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I filled him with the Spirit of God (my power). I gave him understanding, skill, and ability for every kind of artistic work.
Jehovah made these men highly skilled in all trades. They can do the work of jewelers, carpenters, and designers. They know how to embroider violet, purple and bright red yarn on fine linen. They know how to weave yarn on a loom. They can do all kinds of trades. They are master artists.
He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding and in knowledge and in all craftsmanship.
This is for planning skillful designs and working them in gold, silver, and copper.
I created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. I also created the destroyer who will work havoc.
The craftsman encourages the goldsmith. He who smooths with the hammer spurs on him who strikes the anvil. He says of the welding: It is good. He nails down the idol so it will not topple.
Tell all the skilled men whom I have given this ability to make Aaron's clothes. These clothes will set him apart as holy when he serves me as priest.
Then I was beside him, as a master workman with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him.
All the skilled workers among you are to come and make everything that Jehovah commanded:
He knows how to cut and set stones and how to work with wood. He is an expert in all trades.
Send me a man with skill in engraving, in working gold, silver, copper, and iron, and in making blue, purple, and red cloth. He will work with the craftsmen of Judah and Jerusalem whom my father David selected.
It is also for cutting jewels to be set and for carving wood and for every other kind of artistic work.
I have called Bezalel, son of Uri and grandson of Hur, from the tribe of Judah.
The sound of harp players, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, will not be heard anymore in you. No craftsman will be found in you. The sound of a millstone will not be heard in you anymore.
I also appointed Oholiab, son of Ahisamach, from the tribe of Dan, to help him. I have given every craftsman the skill necessary to make what I have commanded you:
Moses continued speaking: Bezalel and Oholiab will do the work as Jehovah commanded. They will do this with the help of every other craftsman to whom Jehovah has given the necessary skills and talents. They will know how to do all the work for constructing the holy place.
I asked: What did these come to do? He answered: These are the horns that scattered Judah! No man lifted up his head for these came to terrify them. They will cast down the horns (power) (authority) of the nations that lifted up their horn (power) (authority) against the land of Judah to scatter it.
As for an idol, a craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.
([Psalm of David]) The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky displays what his hands have made.
You have many workmen: stonecutters, masons and carpenters, as well as men skilled in every kind of work
This was after King Jehoiakin and his mother, the court officials, the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and metal workers left Jerusalem.
in gold and silver, copper and iron, craftsmen beyond number. Now begin the work, and Jehovah will be with you.
military leaders and civilian leaders, counselors, skilled workers, and experts in magic.
For we are his workmanship created with Christ Jesus for good works. God prepared these works in advance that we should walk in them.
He and his kind will be put to shame. Craftsmen are merely men. Let them all come together and take their stand for they will be brought down to terror and infamy.
and for all the objects which the skilled workers are to make. Now who else is willing to give a generous offering to Jehovah?
Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. It is the work of a craftsman and of the hands of a goldsmith. Violet and purple are their clothing. They are all the work of skilled men.
A man too poor to present such an offering selects wood that will not rot. He looks for a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple.
They sin more and more. They make idols from silver for themselves. These idols are skillfully made. All of them are the work of craftsmen. People say this about the Israelites: They offer sacrifices and kiss calf-shaped idols.
The most skilled men among those doing the work made the Tent of Jehovah's presence. They made it out of ten pieces of fine linen woven with blue, purple, and red wool and embroidered with figures of winged creatures.
Meonothai was the father of Ophrah. Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of Ge Harashim. (Valley of Craftsmen) It was called this because its people were craftsmen.
This is how the wheels looked and how they were made: They looked like beryl (chrysolite) (precious stones). All four wheels looked the same. They looked like a wheel within a wheel.
Solomon's and Hiram's workers and men from the city of Gebal prepared the stones and the timber to build the Temple.
Do you see a man diligent in his business? He will stand before kings. He will not stand before unknown men.
Huram was knowledgeable and skilled in making things out of copper. He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. His father had been from Tyre. He went to do all of King Solomon's work.
