Psalm 74:5

They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees.

1 Kings 5:6

Now therefore command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon. My servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you shall say. For you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians."

2 Chronicles 2:14

the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving, and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.

Jeremiah 46:22-23

The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.

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Summary

A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

Bible References

General references

1 Kings 5:6
Now therefore command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon. My servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you shall say. For you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians."
2 Chronicles 2:14
the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving, and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
Jeremiah 46:22
The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.