Gold ...."in them thar hills"...

Gold....".in them thar hills"...

During All of my married life, my husband searched for gold....as well as other minerals, but gold was his primary interest. But he also found barite, silver, tungsten, molybdenum, gravel, and some other minerals along the way...but the gold shown the brightest in his career...he was the prospector....through and through....

But,as he was searching for gold in the mountains, whatever terrain, he also searched for the gold in life, ....in his family...church....people...in the Word of God...
He used the gold from the mountains to enrich the body of believers ....through the time he had....Just as we all are told to use the gifts we are freely given to enrich others....

Gold is mentioned over 400 times in the Bible, from the very beginning to the very end....

It was used as overlay, the tabernacle, the temple, idols, people adornment, building adornment, coins, trade...gifts...worshiped....

It was the goal of kings to amass  it, the kings to take it, thieves to steal it, streets to be paved with it, and comparisons....


But, the most important is that wisdom, God,  is to be our "gold" ,  our treasure...there is, ultimately, nothing  that compares...we are to seek Him, search for His treasures for our life, and find them in Him....our gold...all the other will be added as needed....He provides...a good name, His word are far more precious than all the gold....

I don't want to be said of as Gideon, caught in a snare of worshipping the gold rather than the true gold of God....

Thank YOU for gold in life, the usefulness it has been and is,   But far more, help me to keep my life and eyes on the True riches of You, God...the all provider, the true treasure...




Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 2:12
(The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.)

Judges 8:27
Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.

1 Kings 10:10
And she gave the king 120 talents of gold, large quantities of spices, and precious stones. Never again were so many spices brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

1 Kings 10:11
(Hiram’s ships brought gold from Ophir; and from there they brought great cargoes of almugwood and precious stones...

1 Kings 10:22
The king had a fleet of trading ships at sea along with the ships of Hiram. Once every three years it returned, carrying gold, silver and ivory, and apes and baboons.


1 Kings 22:48
Now Jehoshaphat built a fleet of trading ships to go to Ophir for gold, but they never set sail—they were wrecked at Ezion Geber.

1 Chronicles 29:3
Besides, in my devotion to the temple of my God I now give my personal treasures of gold and silver for the temple of my God, over and above everything I have provided for this holy temple:

Job 22:23-25
New International Version (NIV)
23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored:
    If you remove wickedness far from your tent
24 and assign your nuggets to the dust,
    your gold of Ophir to the rocks in the ravines,
25 then the Almighty will be your gold,
    the choicest silver for you.


Job 23:10
But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

Job 28:1
[ Interlude: Where Wisdom Is Found ] There is a mine for silver and a place where gold is refined.

Job 28:6
lapis lazuli comes from its rocks, and its dust contains nuggets of gold.

Job 28:15
It cannot be bought with the finest gold, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.

Job 28:16
It cannot be bought with the gold of Ophir, with precious onyx or lapis lazuli

Job 28:17
Neither gold nor crystal can compare with it, nor can it be had for jewels of gold.

Job 28:19
The topaz of Cush cannot compare with it; it cannot be bought with pure gold.

Job 31:24
“If I have put my trust in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security,’

Psalm 19:9-11
New International Version (NIV)
9 The fear of the Lord is pure,
    enduring forever.
The decrees of the Lord are firm,
    and all of them are righteous.
10 They are more precious than gold,
    than much pure gold;
they are sweeter than honey,
    than honey from the honeycomb.
11 By them your servant is warned;
    in keeping them there is great reward.

Proverbs 8:10
Choose my instruction instead of silver, knowledge rather than choice gold,

Proverbs 8:19
My fruit is better than fine gold; what I yield surpasses choice silver.

Proverbs 16:16
How much better to get wisdom than gold, to get insight rather than silver!

Proverbs 17:3
The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the heart.

Proverbs 20:15
Gold there is, and rubies in abundance, but lips that speak knowledge are a rare jewel.

Proverbs 22:1
A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.


Revelation 21
New International Version (NIV)
A New Heaven and a New Earth

21 Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,” for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

6 He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

The New Jerusalem, the Bride of the Lamb

9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.” 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the Holy City, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. 11 It shone with the glory of God, and its brilliance was like that of a very precious jewel, like a jasper, clear as crystal. 12 It had a great, high wall with twelve gates, and with twelve angels at the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. 13 There were three gates on the east, three on the north, three on the south and three on the west. 14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

15 The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. 16 The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long. 17 The angel measured the wall using human measurement, and it was 144 cubits thick. 18 The wall was made of jasper, and the city of pure gold, as pure as glass. 19 The foundations of the city walls were decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, 20 the fifth onyx, the sixth ruby, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth turquoise, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate made of a single pearl. The great street of the city was of gold, as pure as transparent glass.

22 I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. 24 The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. 25 On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. 26 The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it. 27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.