'Clay' in the Bible
In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.
Though he heap up silver as the dust, And prepare raiment as the clay;
Behold, I am toward God even as thou art: I also am formed out of the clay.
It is changed as clay under the seal; And all things'stand forth as a garment:
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Ye turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath no understanding?
I have raised up one from the north, and he is come; from the rising of the sun one that calleth upon my name: and he shall come upon rulers as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
And when the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter, he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the potter's hand, so are ye in my hand, O house of Israel.
its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.
Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon its feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them in pieces.
Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters clay, and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
And whereas thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron doth not mingle with clay.
Forasmuch as thou sawest that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make strong the brickkiln.
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay,
He answered, The man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to Siloam, and wash: so I went away and washed, and I received sight.
Now it was the sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. And he said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and I see.
Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?