Gold used in the Arts
34 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
10 sections
Apparel
- Psalm 45:9 The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.
- Psalm 45:13 All glorious is the princess in her chamber; her gown is embroidered with gold.
Beaten Work
- 2 Chronicles 9:15 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of hammered gold went into each shield.
Bedsteads Made of
- Esther 1:6 Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, …
Crowns Made of
- Exodus 25:25 And make a rim around it a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
- Exodus 37:2–11 He overlaid it with pure gold, both inside and out, and made a gold molding around it. …
- Exodus 39:30 They also made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and they engraved on it, like an inscription on a seal: HOLY TO THE LORD.
- Esther 8:15 Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal garments of blue and white, with a large gold crown and a purple robe of fine linen. And the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.
- Psalm 21:3 For You welcomed him with rich blessings; You placed on his head a crown of pure gold.
- Zechariah 6:11 Take silver and gold, make an ornate crown, and set it on the head of the high priest, Joshua son of Jehozadak.
Into Ornaments
- Genesis 24:22 And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.
- Exodus 3:22 Every woman shall ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians.”
- Exodus 11:2 Now announce to the people that men and women alike should ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold.”
- Exodus 28:11 Engrave the names of the sons of Israel on the two stones the way a gem cutter engraves a seal. Then mount the stones in gold filigree settings.
- Numbers 31:50–51 So we have brought to the LORD an offering of the gold articles each man acquired— armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces— to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.” …
- Song of Solomon 1:10 Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
- Song of Solomon 5:14 His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is polished ivory bedecked with sapphires.
- Ezekiel 16:17 You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself.
Made Into Wire Threads and Worked Into Embroidered Tapestry
- Exodus 39:3 They hammered out thin sheets of gold and cut threads from them to interweave with the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen — the work of a skilled craftsman.
Modeled Into Forms of Fruits
- Proverbs 25:11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
Overlaying With
- Exodus 25:11 Overlay it with pure gold both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 25:13 And make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
- Exodus 25:24 Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 25:28 Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, so that the table may be carried with them.
- Exodus 25:1–40 Then the LORD said to Moses, …
- Exodus 26:27 five for those on the other side, and five for those on the rear side of the tabernacle, to the west.
- Exodus 26:29 Overlay the frames with gold and make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Also overlay the crossbars with gold.
- Exodus 30:5 Make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
- Exodus 36:34 And he overlaid the frames with gold and made gold rings to hold the crossbars. He also overlaid the crossbars with gold.
- Exodus 36:36 He also made four posts of acacia wood for it and overlaid them with gold, along with gold hooks; and he cast four silver bases for the posts.
- Exodus 36:38 together with five posts and their hooks. He overlaid the tops of the posts and their bands with gold, and their five bases were bronze.
- Exodus 37:2 He overlaid it with pure gold, both inside and out, and made a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 37:4 Then he made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold.
- Exodus 37:11 He overlaid it with pure gold and made a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 37:15 He made the poles of acacia wood for carrying the table and overlaid them with gold.
- 1 Kings 6:20–22 The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar. …
- 1 Kings 6:28 He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.
- 1 Kings 6:30 And he overlaid the temple floor with gold in both the inner and outer sanctuaries.
- 1 Kings 6:32 The double doors were made of olive wood, and he carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.
- 1 Kings 6:35 He carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.
Shields of
- 1 Kings 10:16–17 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield. …
The Lampstands Made of, for the Tabernacle
- Exodus 25:31–38 Then you are to make a lampstand of pure, hammered gold. It shall be made of one piece, including its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals. …
- Exodus 37:17–24 Then he made the lampstand out of pure hammered gold, all of one piece: its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals. …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.