Bible Themes · Creation

Wool

Wool used for clothing

Ezekiel 34:3 See also Leviticus 13:47–48; Deuteronomy 22:11; Proverbs 31:13; Isaiah 51:8; Ezekiel 44:17

You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock.

Wool used in sacrificial ritual

Numbers 19:6; Hebrews 9:19

Wool as a valuable commodity

2 Kings 3:4 See also Deuteronomy 18:4; Ezekiel 27:18; Hosea 2:5, Hosea 2:9

Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he would render to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.

Figurative use of wool

Isaiah 1:18 See also Psalm 147:16; Daniel 7:9; Revelation 1:14

“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.

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Dictionary of Bible Themes © 1999 Martin Manser, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, via Bible Aquifer. Formatted for this site, with Scripture from the Berean Standard Bible.

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