Nave’s Topical Bible
Gold
82 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Exported from Havilah
- From Ophir
1 Kings 9:28; 1 Kings 10:11; 1 Chronicles 29:4; 2 Chronicles 8:18; Job 22:24
- Tarshish
- Parvaim
- Sheba
- Uphaz
- Refined
Job 28:19; Job 31:24; Proverbs 8:19; Proverbs 17:3; Proverbs 27:21; Zechariah 13:9; Malachi 3:3
- Used in the arts
- Beaten work
- Made into wire threads and worked into embroidered tapestry
- Apparel
- In ornamenting the priests' garments
- Modeled into forms of fruits
- Into ornaments
Genesis 24:22; Exodus 3:22; Exodus 11:2; Exodus 28:11; Numbers 31:50-51; Song of Songs 1:10; Song of Songs 5:14; Ezekiel 16:17
- Crowns made of
Exodus 25:25; Exodus 37:2-11; Exodus 39:30; Esther 8:15; Psalms 21:3; Zechariah 6:11
- The lampstands made of, for the tabernacle
- Shields of
- Overlaying with
Exodus 25:11,13,24,28; Exodus 25:1-40; Exodus 26:27,29; Exodus 30:5; Exodus 36:34,36,38; Exodus 37:2,4,11,15; 1 Kings 6:20-22,28,30,32,35
- Bedsteads made of
- Wedge of
- Used as money
Genesis 44:8; Genesis 44:1; 1 Chronicles 21:25; Ezra 8:25-28; Isaiah 13:17; Isaiah 60:9; Ezekiel 7:19; Ezekiel 28:4; Matthew 2:11; Matthew 10:9; Acts 3:6; Acts 20:33; 1 Peter 1:18
- Solomon rich in
- Vessels and utensils made of, for the tabernacle
- For the temple
1 Chronicles 18:11; 1 Chronicles 22:14,16; 1 Chronicles 29:2-7
- Altar lamps, and other articles made of
1 Kings 7:48-51; 2 Kings 25:15; Jeremiah 52:19; Ezra 8:27; Daniel 5:3
See: Overlaying with, above
- Belongs to God
- FIGURATIVE
Ecclesiastes 12:6; Jeremiah 51:7; Lamentations 4:1; 1 Corinthians 3:12
- SYMBOLICAL
Daniel 2:32-45; Revelation 21:18,21
See GOLDSMITH
Bible verses about “Gold”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 2:11The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
- Genesis 2:12And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
- 1 Kings 9:28And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.
- 1 Kings 10:11And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.
- 1 Chronicles 29:4Even three thousand talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and seven thousand talents of refined silver, to overlay the walls of the houses withal:
- 2 Chronicles 8:18And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
- Job 22:24Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
- 1 Kings 22:48Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Ezion–geber.
- 2 Chronicles 3:6And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
- 1 Kings 10:10And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices very great store, and precious stones: there came no more such abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.
- 2 Chronicles 9:9And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.
- Psalms 72:15And he shall live, and to him shall be given of the gold of Sheba: prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised.
- Jeremiah 10:9Silver 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.
- Job 28:19The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
- Job 31:24If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
- Proverbs 8:19My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
- Proverbs 17:3The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.
- Proverbs 27:21As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.
- Zechariah 13:9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
- Malachi 3:3And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.
- 2 Chronicles 9:15And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.
- Exodus 39:3And 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.
- Psalms 45:9Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
- Psalms 45:13The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
- Proverbs 25:11A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
- Genesis 24:22And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
- Exodus 3:22But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
- Exodus 11:2Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.
- Exodus 28:11With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
- Numbers 31:50We have therefore brought an oblation for the Lord, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the Lord.
- Numbers 31:51And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of them, even all wrought jewels.
- Song of Songs 1:10Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold.
- Song of Songs 5:14His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
- Ezekiel 16:17Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
- Exodus 25:25And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
- Exodus 37:2And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
- Exodus 37:3And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it.
- Exodus 37:4And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
- Exodus 37:5And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.
- Exodus 37:6And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.