Writing

A form of communication, including the writing of books, letters and scrolls. Many kinds of materials have been written on. Figuratively speaking, the heart can be written on.

Uses of writing

Books

Jeremiah 30:2 See also Luke 1:3

“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.

The law

Deuteronomy 31:24 See also Joshua 24:26; 2 Kings 23:21

When Moses had finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end,

Annals and records

1 Kings 11:41 See also 2 Kings 12:19; 1 Chronicles 29:29; 2 Chronicles 35:25

As for the rest of the acts of Solomon — all that he did, as well as his wisdom — are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon?

Agreements

Nehemiah 9:38

Legal documents

Deuteronomy 24:1; Mark 10:4

Letters

2 Samuel 11:14; Romans 16:22; Colossians 4:18 In those days the sender would add a few words to a letter dictated to and written by a secretary. See also 1 Kings 21:8–11; Esther 3:12; Galatians 6:11; 2 Peter 3:1

The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

I, Tertius, who wrote down this letter, greet you in the Lord.

This greeting is in my own hand — Paul. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.

Writing materials

Stone

Exodus 32:15–16 See also Deuteronomy 27:2–3; Job 19:24

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.

Wood

Numbers 17:2–3; Deuteronomy 6:9

Metal

Zechariah 14:20

Walls

Daniel 5:5–8

Writing tablets

Habakkuk 2:2; Luke 1:63

Scrolls

Deuteronomy 17:18; Revelation 1:11 See also Exodus 17:14; Numbers 5:23; Job 19:23; Isaiah 8:1; Jeremiah 36:18, Jeremiah 51:60

When he is seated on his royal throne, he must write for himself a copy of this instruction on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests.

saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

Writing kits

Ezekiel 9:2–3 See also Ezekiel 9:11; 2 John 1:12; 3 John 1:13

And I saw six men coming from the direction of the Upper Gate, which faces north, each with a weapon of slaughter in his hand. With them was another man clothed in linen who had a writing kit at his side. And they came in and stood beside the bronze altar. Then the glory of the God of Israel rose from above the cherubim, where it had been, and moved to the threshold of the temple. And He called to the man clothed in linen who had the writing kit at his side.

God writes

The law

Exodus 31:18, Exodus 32:15–16, Exodus 34:1

Figurative writing of God

Psalm 139:16 See also Psalm 87:6; Luke 10:20

Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.

Jesus Christ writes

John 8:6

They said this to test Him, in order to have a basis for accusing Him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with His finger.

Writing on the heart

Jeremiah 31:33 See also Hebrews 8:10, Hebrews 10:16Romans 2:15 See also Proverbs 3:3, Proverbs 7:3; Jeremiah 17:1; 2 Corinthians 3:2

“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.

So they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them

General references to writing

Genesis 5:1; Deuteronomy 31:19; Joshua 18:4; 2 Chronicles 35:4; Psalm 102:18