Thematic Bible: Nail


Thematic Bible



“From them will come the cornerstone,
From them the tent peg,
From them the bow of battle,
From them every ruler, all of them together.

But now for a brief moment grace has been shown from the Lord our God, to leave us an escaped remnant and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our bondage.

“I will drive him like a peg in a firm place,
And he will become a throne of glory to his father’s house.

In that day,” declares the Lord of hosts, “the peg driven in a firm place will give way; it will even break off and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off, for the Lord has spoken.”


So the craftsman encourages the smelter,
And he who smooths metal with the hammer encourages him who beats the anvil,
Saying of the soldering, “It is good”;
And he fastens it with nails,
So that it will not totter.

“They decorate it with silver and with gold;
They fasten it with nails and with hammers
So that it will not totter.


David prepared large quantities of iron to make the nails for the doors of the gates and for the clamps, and more bronze than could be weighed;


But Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg and seized a hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went through into the ground; for he was sound asleep and exhausted. So he died.


The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.