Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

Bible References

Threshed

Isaiah 41:15
Look! I will make you into a new sharp threshing sledge, {with} sharp edges. You shall thresh and crush [the] mountains, and you shall make [the] hills like chaff.
2 Kings 13:7
For there was no army left over for Jehoahaz except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand infantry, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them as the dust at threshing.
Amos 1:3
Thus says Yahweh, "For three transgressions of Damascus and for four I will not revoke [the punishment], because they threshed Gilead with threshing sledges of iron!

The fitches

Isaiah 27:7
Does he strike him {as he struck down those who struck him}? Or is he killed {as those who killed him were killed}?
Jeremiah 10:24
Chastise me, Yahweh, but in moderation, not in your anger, lest you eradicate me.
Jeremiah 46:28
You must not be afraid, my servant Jacob," {declares} Yahweh, "for I [am] with you. For I will make a complete destruction in all the nations where I scattered you, but you I will not make a complete destruction, though I will chastise you to the measure, and I will certainly not leave you unpunished."