Engraving

Engraving on the high priest's equipment

Exodus 28:9–12, Exodus 28:21, Exodus 28:36, Exodus 39:6, Exodus 39:14, Exodus 39:30

Engraving in the temple

2 Chronicles 2:7 See also 1 Kings 7:31, 1 Kings 7:36; 2 Chronicles 2:14

Send me, therefore, a craftsman skilled in engraving to work with gold and silver, with bronze and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue yarn. He will work with my craftsmen in Judah and Jerusalem, whom my father David provided.

Engraving on stone

Job 19:24; Zechariah 3:9

The Ten Commandments engraved on tablets

Exodus 32:15–16 See also 2 Corinthians 3:7–8

Then Moses turned and went down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back. The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

Figurative use of engraving

Isaiah 49:16; Jeremiah 17:1

Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.

“The sin of Judah is written with an iron stylus, engraved with a diamond point on the tablets of their hearts and on the horns of their altars.