Shovel

Even humble tools get a place in Scripture. The altar’s list of fittings includes pans for its ashes and “his shovels,” all made of brass (Exodus 27:3). Hiram, the craftsman Solomon employed, makes the shovels again for the temple (1 Kings 7:40). Nobody would call them glamorous, but they were counted, built with care and used in worship. The last mention is a quiet sorrow: Jeremiah 52:18 lists the shovels among the brass vessels carried off when Jerusalem fell. Read Exodus 27 for the altar and its tools.

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Exodus

Exodus 27:3

And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

Exodus 38:3

And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.

1 Kings

1 Kings 7:40

And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:

Jeremiah

Jeremiah 52:18

The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

Based on Nave's Topical Bible by Orville J. Nave (1896). Public domain. KJV scripture text, public domain.