Bible Verses About Precious Stones

and they saw the God of Isra'el. Under his feet was something like a sapphire stone pavement as clear as the sky itself.

onyx stones and other stones to be set, for the ritual vest and breastplate.

Take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Isra'el -

An engraver should engrave the names of the sons of Isra'el on the two stones as he would engrave a seal. Mount the stones in gold settings,

and put the two stones on the shoulder-pieces of the vest as stones calling to mind the sons of Isra'el. Aharon is to carry their names before ADONAI on his two shoulders as a reminder.

Put on it settings of stones, four rows of stones: the first row is to be a carnelian, a topaz and an emerald;

the second row a green feldspar, a sapphire and a diamond;

the third row an orange zircon, an agate and an amethyst;

and the fourth row a beryl, an onyx and a jasper. They are to be mounted in their gold settings.

The stones will correspond to the names of the twelve sons of Isra'el; they are to be engraved with their names as a seal would be engraved, to represent the twelve tribes.

They put on it four rows of stones: the first row was a carnelian, a topaz and an emerald;

the second row a green feldspar, a sapphire and a diamond;

the third row an orange zircon, an agate and an amethyst;

and the fourth row a beryl, an onyx and a jasper. They were mounted in settings of gold.

The stones corresponded to the names of the twelve sons of Isra'el; they were engraved with their names as a seal would be engraved, each name representing one of the twelve tribes.

He took the crown off Malkam's head; it weighed sixty-six pounds, with its gold and precious stones; and it was placed on David's head. He carried off great quantities of spoil from the city.

When the queen of Sh'va heard what was being said about Shlomo because of the name of ADONAI, she came to test him with difficult questions.

She arrived in Yerushalayim accompanied by a very great retinue, including camels bearing spices and gold in great abundance, and precious stones. When she appeared before Shlomo she spoke with him about everything on her heart,

Then she gave the king four tons of gold, a huge amount of spices, and precious stones; never again did there arrive such an abundance of spices as those the queen of Sh'va gave to King Shlomo.

Hiram's fleet which had brought gold from Ofir now brought in from Ofir a large quantity of sandalwood and precious stones.

Now I have used all my strength to prepare for the house of my God the gold needed for the articles of gold, the silver for the articles of silver, the bronze for the articles of bronze, the iron for the articles of iron, the wood for the articles of wood, onyx stones, gemstones to be set, brilliant stones of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, as well as marble in abundance.

Those who had precious stones gave them to the storehouse of the house of ADONAI, supervised by Yechi'el the Gershuni.

He also decorated the building with precious stones and gold from Parvayim,

Huram's servants and Shlomo's servants, who had brought the gold from Ofir, now brought sandalwood and precious stones.

Y'hoshafat and his army came to take the spoil from them and found among them personal property in abundance and corpses with precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves until they couldn't carry any more. They took three days just to collect the spoil, there was so much.