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And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
Mattocks
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2 Chronicles 30:1
Then Hezekiah sent word to all Israel and Judah, and sent letters to Ephraim and Manasseh, requesting them to come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 31:1
Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.
2 Kings 23:15
And the altar at Beth-el, and the high place put up by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel do evil, that altar and that high place were pulled down; and the high place was burned and crushed to dust and the Asherah was burned.
Mattocks
1 Samuel 13:20
But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their ploughs and blades and axes and hooks made sharp;
Proverbs 25:18
One who gives false witness against his neighbour is a hammer and a sword and a sharp arrow.
Isaiah 7:25
And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.