Molding

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

General scriptures concerning

• Job 28:2 Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
• Ezekiel 24:11 Set the empty pot on its coals until it becomes hot and its copper glows. Then its impurity will melt within; its rust will be consumed.

Of images

• Exodus 32:4 He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
• Exodus 32:8 How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
• Exodus 34:17 You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.
• Leviticus 19:4 Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
• Deuteronomy 9:12 And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”

Of pillars

• 1 Kings 7:15 He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.

Of the laver

• 1 Kings 7:23 He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.

Done in the plain of the Jordan River

• 1 Kings 7:46 The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.
• 2 Chronicles 4:17 The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zeredah.

Of mirrors

• Job 37:18 can you, like Him, spread out the skies, as strong as a mirror of bronze?