87 Bible Verses About Skill

Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed–edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.

A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.

The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.

And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.

To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;

And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.

So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved.

And he made fifty loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the second.

And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.

And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.

And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.

And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:

And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick; his shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of the same:

Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

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

To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.

A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.

Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.

See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:

And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework.

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.

The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.

And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.

And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen.

Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the Lord put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the Lord had commanded.

Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.

Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.

For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the Lord had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:

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.

So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;

And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the Lord commanded Moses.

And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father’s,

Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.

And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the Lord’s offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it.

And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:

And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.

Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two edges was it coupled together.

How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

All this, said David, the Lord made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.

And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.

And thou shalt make ouches of gold;

He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.

And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the Lord hath commanded;

The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.

And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.

Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Beth–lehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the Lord is with him.

Every prudent man dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open his folly.

Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.

And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.

And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;

One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.

And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.

Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.