Thematic Bible: An implement


Thematic Bible



He also brought out the people who [were] in it and put them to the saws and to the iron picks and to the iron axes, and he sent them to the place of the brickmakers. Thus he used to do to all the cities of the {Ammonites}, and he and all of the army returned to Jerusalem. Verse ConceptsAxesIronToolsCaptivesClay, UsesHorrors Of WarSawsFurnacesIron ObjectsForced Labour

{For example}, when somebody goes with his neighbor into the forest to cut wood, and the iron [head] slips from the handle [of the tool] and strikes his neighbor and he dies, [then] he may flee to one of these cities, and [so] he may live. Verse ConceptsForestsToolsWoodCarpentry ToolsFelling TreesSharp ToolsIron Objects

So all Israel [went] down to [the] Philistines, each to have his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his iron plowshare sharpened. The charge was {two-thirds of a shekel} for the plowshare and for the mattock, and {a third of a shekel for the pick} and for the axe, and to set the goading sticks.

They are known [to be] like [those who] {wield} axes in a thicket of trees. And now its carved works altogether they have smashed with axe and hammer.