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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
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(cutting). Carving amid
engraving
in much request (
Ex. 31:5; 35:33
5
And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship. (Exodus 31:5)
33
And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work. (Exodus 35:33)
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1 Kings 6:18
18
And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. (1 Kings 6:18)
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2 Chron. 2:7-14
7
Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide.
8
Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
9
Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.
10
And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
11
Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the Lord hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them.
12
Huram said moreover, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, that might build an house for the Lord, and an house for his kingdom.
13
And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's,
14
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father. (2 Chronicles 2:7‑14)
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Psa. 74:6
6
But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. (Psalm 74:6)
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Zech. 3:9
9
For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. (Zechariah 3:9)
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