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* Vineyards and wine-presses (e.g. [[Mark 12:1]])
The frequency of metaphoric references indicates a broad acceptance among the Biblical writers of the technologies of their time. If the writers were in any way opposed to technology, we could expect them to avoid these types of metaphors, or to use technological metaphors dismissively or ???scornfully. But there none of that is evident.
== God's use of technology ==
[[1 Kings 7:46]] indicates that bronze was fashioned into many ornate shapes by casting it in clay moulds.
The process of metal refining is applied metaphorically to the human condition in several places, including [[Proverbs 17:3]], [[Proverbs 25:5]] - [[Proverbs 25:6]], [[Proverbs 27:21]] and , [[Isaiah 48:10]], [[Jeremiah 6:27]] - [[Jeremiah 6:30]] and [[Zechariah 13:9]]. An important component of that process is the removal of dross ([[Isaiah 1:25]], [[Jeremiah 6:29]]), which can only be done when the raw materials are heated to melting point. To achieve our purification, God is a refiner's fire ([[Malachi 3:2]]). Virtually the same point is made by another Biblical metaphor: that of winnowing to separate the grain from the chaff (e.g. [[Proverbs 20:26]], [[Isaiah 41:15]], [[Luke 3:17]]).
The Bible also points out that gold is less desirable than the law of the Lord ([[Psalm 19:10]]) and of less worth than faith ([[1 Peter 1:7]]).