'Clay' in the Bible
A clay pot in which the sin offering is boiled must be broken; if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it must be scoured and rinsed with water.
If any of them falls into any clay pot, everything in it will become unclean; you must break it.
Then the priest will order that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay pot.
and he is to slaughter one of the birds over a clay pot containing fresh water.
Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, while any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.
Then the priest is to take holy water in a clay bowl, and take some of the dust from the tabernacle floor and put it in the water.
The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan.
The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zeredah.
how much more those who dwell in clay houses,whose foundation is in the dust,who are crushed like a moth!
Please remember that You formed me like clay.Will You now return me to dust?
Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ash;your defenses are made of clay.
Though he piles up silver like dustand heaps up a wardrobe like clay—
I am just like you before God;I was also pinched off from a piece of clay.
The earth is changed as clay is by a seal;its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
My strength is dried up like baked clay;my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.You put me into the dust of death.
He brought me up from a desolate pit,out of the muddy clay,and set my feet on a rock,making my steps secure.
I will send him against a godless nation;I will command him to goagainst a people destined for My rage,to take spoils, to plunder,and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
You have turned things around,as if the potter were the same as the clay.How can what is made say about its maker,“He didn’t make me”?How can what is formedsay about the one who formed it,“He doesn’t understand what he’s doing”?
“I have raised up one from the north, and he has come,one from the east who invokes My name.He will march over rulers as if they were mud,like a potter who treads the clay.
“Woe to the one who argues with his Maker—one clay pot among many.Does clay say to the one forming it,‘What are you making?’Or does your work say,‘He has no hands’?
Yet Lord, You are our Father;we are the clay, and You are our potter;we all are the work of Your hands.
But the jar that he was making from the clay became flawed in the potter’s hand, so he made it into another jar, as it seemed right for him to do.
“House of Israel, can I not treat you as this potter treats his clay?”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “Just like clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, house of Israel.
This is what the Lord says: “Go, buy a potter’s clay jar. Take some of the elders of the people and some of the leading priests
ב BetZion’s precious people—once worth their weight in pure gold—how they are regarded as clay jars,the work of a potter’s hands!
its legs were iron, and its feet were partly iron and partly fired clay.
As you were watching, a stone broke off without a hand touching it, struck the statue on its feet of iron and fired clay, and crushed them.
Then the iron, the fired clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were shattered and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, and not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
You saw the feet and toes, partly of a potter’s fired clay and partly of iron—it will be a divided kingdom, though some of the strength of iron will be in it. You saw the iron mixed with clay,
and that the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly fired clay—part of the kingdom will be strong, and part will be brittle.
You saw the iron mixed with clay—the peoples will mix with one another but will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with fired clay.
You saw a stone break off from the mountain without a hand touching it, and it crushed the iron, bronze, fired clay, silver, and gold. The great God has told the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and its interpretation certain.”
Draw water for the siege;strengthen your fortresses.Step into the clay and tread the mortar;take hold of the brick-mold!