17 Bible Verses about woodworking

As for the carpenter, - He hath stretched out a line hath drawn it with a pencil, Hath made it with carving tools, With compasses, hath rounded it, - And so hath made it after the figure of a great man, After the beauty of a son of earth, that it may remain in a house!

and in the cutting of stones for setting, and in the carving of wood, - to work in all manner of workmanship,

Then Yahweh shewed me Four Craftsmen.

to devise skilful designs, to work in gold and in silver, and in bronze;

and in the cutting of stones for setting, and in the cutting of wood, - to work in any manner of skilful workmanship,

hath filled them with wisdom of heart to work all manner of workmanship of cutter, and deviser and embroiderer, in blue and in purple, in crimson and in fine linen and of the weaver, - workers of any manner of workmanship, and devisers of skilful designs.

to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, - and to buy timber, and hewn stones, for repairing the house.

and have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom and in understanding, and in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship;

And he made, in the most holy house, two cherubim, of carved work, - and covered them with gold.

As for the smith, with his cutting-tool, - When he hath wrought in the live coals, And, with hammers, hath fashioned it, - And hath wrought it with his strong arm, Anon he is hungry, and hath no strength, He hath drunk no water and so hath become faint!

then used they to give the silver that had been weighed out, into the hands of the doers of the work, who had oversight of the house of Yahweh, - and they brought it forth, to the carpenters, and to the builders, who were working upon the house of Yahweh;

Surely, the stone out of the wall, will make outcry, - and, the tie out of the timber, will answer it.

yea they delivered it to the artificers and to the builders, to buy carved stones and timbers for the joinings, - and to build up the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

Is not, this, the carpenter? the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us? - and they were finding cause of stumbling in him.

So, the carver, hath encouraged, the goldsmith, he that maketh smooth with the hammer, him that smiteth the anvil, - Saying of the welding, It is, good, Then hath he fastened it with nails - it must not totter!

For as for the prescribed customs of the peoples, vanity, they are, - For a tree out of the forest, one cutteth down, Work for the hands of a skilled workman with the axe:

When one was cutting him down cedars, Then took he a holm-tree and an oak, And secured them for himself, among the trees of the forest, - He planted a fir-tree and the pouring rain made it grow;