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| [[1 Kings 7:46]]
| The bronze furnishings were fashioned using clay moulds.
| See also [[2 Chronicles 4:17]].All the Temple furnishings and the bronze Sea were taken away by the Babylonians about 420 years later ([[Jeremiah 52:17]] - [[Jeremiah 52:19]])
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| [[1 Kings 10:22]]
| [[Jeremiah 10:1]] - [[Jeremiah 10:16]]
| Against idols. A craftsman shapes it with a chisel, adorns it with silver and secures it with a nail to stop it falling over -- but it is no more powerful than a scarecrow in a melon patch! Every goldsmith should be shamed but their idols: the images are a fraud.
|See also [[Jeremiah 51:17]].
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| [[Jeremiah 35:6]] - [[Jeremiah 35:11]]| The Recabites don't drink wine, build houses, sow seed or plant vineyards.|While not strictly anti-technology, the Recabites took a kind of Amish stance. God congratulates them on upholding their ancestor's command and contrasts them to the rest of Israel who don't even obey God's commands.
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| [[Jeremiah 50:9]]| "Their arrows will be like skilled warriors."|Intelligent weaponry: a very advanced notion! Heat seeking missiles?
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