[IrishBrigade]

‘Go read a Bible. THAT will show you how it’s done’

okay, gotcha; so we should all go back to being first century sheep and goat herders, pressing olive oil and eating salted fish...

[Elsie]

You talkin’ to me?

I have goats.

[Elsie]

You might want to update your biases.

 

 

 

A great variety of occupations, both secular and religious, are mentioned in Scripture.

 

Builders

Ps 127:1 See also Ps 118:22; Mt 21:42 pp Mk 12:10 pp Lk 20:17; Ac 4:11; 1Co 3:10-15; Heb 3:3; 1Pe 2:7

Embroiderers

Ex 38:23

Weavers and spinners

Ex 39:22; Pr 31:19

Stonemasons

2Ki 12:12; 2Ki 22:5-6

Carpenters and woodworkers

2Ki 22:5-6; Mt 13:55

Musicians

1Ch 15:19-22; 1Ch 16:42; Hab 3:19

Tanners

Ac 9:43 See also Ac 10:6,32

Linen workers

1Ch 4:21

Washermen

Isa 7:3 See also 2Ki 18:17 pp Isa 36:2

Blacksmiths

Isa 44:12 See also 1Sa 13:19-21; Isa 54:16

Merchants

Ne 3:31-32 See also 1Ki 10:14-15,28-29 pp 2Ch 1:16-17; Ne 13:19-21; Hos 12:7; Mt 13:45-46

Tentmakers

Ac 18:1-3

Soldiers

2Ki 5:1 See also Mt 8:5-13 pp Lk 7:1-10; Lk 3:14; Ac 10:1-8; 2Ti 2:3-4

Priests

Ge 46:20 See also Ge 14:18; Ex 18:1; Ex 28:3; Ex 40:13; Jdg 17:12-13; 1Sa 2:27-29; 1Ki 4:2-5; Mal 2:7; Mt 8:4

Levites and temple servants

Nu 1:50-51 See also 1Ch 15:16,22; 1Ch 16:4; Ezr 2:70; Ne 12:44-47; Lk 10:32

Watchmen

Ps 127:1 See also 2Sa 18:24-27; SS 3:1-4; SS 5:7; Isa 21:11-12; Isa 56:10; Eze 33:2-6; Jn 10:1-3

Shepherds

Ge 47:3 See also Ge 29:1-10; Ge 46:31-34; Ex 2:16-17; 1Sa 17:20; 1Sa 21:7; Am 1:1; Lk 2:8-18; Jn 10:2-4

Farmers

Zec 13:4-5 See also Isa 28:24-25; Jer 31:5; Joel 1:11; Mt 13:3-9 pp Mk 4:3-8 pp Lk 8:5-8; Mt 21:33 pp Mk 12:1 pp Lk 20:9; 2Ti 2:6; Jas 5:7

Fishermen

Mt 13:48 See also Isa 19:8; Jer 16:16; Eze 47:10; Mt 4:18-19 pp Mk 1:16-17; Lk 5:2

Doctors

Mk 5:25-26 pp Lk 8:43 See also Mt 9:12 pp Mk 2:17 pp Lk 5:31; Col 4:14

Lawyers

Ac 24:1 See also Tit 3:13

 

Dictionary of Bible Themes Scripture index copyright Martin H. Manser, 2009. 

[metmom]

Those *goat herders* you despise so much, turned the wold upside down with their preaching Christ.

You can sneer all you want, but the church in Acts was in far better shape then the organization that Calls itself the Roman Catholic church.

[metmom]

1 Corinthians 1:18-31 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”