'Inventions' in the Bible

And he maketh in Jerusalem inventions -- a device of an inventor -- to be on the towers, and on the corners, to shoot with arrows and with great stones, and his name goeth out unto a distance, for he hath been wonderfully helped till that he hath been strong.

Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.

Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

To execute inventions is as play to a fool, And wisdom to a man of understanding.

Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

But I was like a gentle and tame lamb brought to the slaughter;And I did not know that they had devised plots and schemes against me, saying,“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit;Let us cut him off from the land of the living,That his name be remembered no longer.”

Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother,