Thematic Bible: Ax
Thematic Bible
Ax » An implement
He removed the people who were in the city and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, and to labor at brickmaking. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then he and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
Verse Concepts
If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings the ax to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, that person may flee to one of these cities and live.
Verse Concepts
So all the Israelites went to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles. The price was two-thirds of a shekel for plowshares and mattocks, and one-third [of a shekel] for pitchforks and axes, and for putting a point on an oxgoad.
It was like men in a thicket of trees, wielding axes, then smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.
Ax » Figurative
My weapons of war.
With you I will smash nations;
with you I will bring kingdoms to ruin.
for the enemy will come with an army;
with axes they will come against her
like those who cut trees.
Even now the ax is ready to strike the root of the trees! Therefore, every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
Ax » Elisha causes to swim
As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron [ax head] fell into the water, and he cried out: "Oh, my master, it was borrowed!" Then the man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" When he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron float.
Ax » Battle-ax
He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his iron tools.
Verse Concepts
Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Ax
Then Zedekiah son of Chenaanah made iron horns and said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘You will gore the Arameans with these until they are finished off.’”
Verse Concepts
Then the man of God asked, “Where did it fall?”
When he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron float.
Verse Concepts
When he showed him the place, the man of God cut a stick, threw it there, and made the iron float.
then one must exert more strength;
however, the advantage of wisdom is that it brings success.
and Lebanon with its majesty will fall.