Thematic Bible: Ax
Thematic Bible
Ax » An implement
And he brought forth the people that were in it, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick-kiln. And thus he did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. And Dav
as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the helve, and lands upon his neighbor, so that he dies, he shall flee to on
but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.
They seemed as men who lifted up axes upon a thicket of trees. And now they break down all the carved work of it with hatchet and hammers.
Ax » Figurative
Thou are my battle-axe and weapons of war. And with thee I will break in pieces the nations, and with thee I will destroy kingdoms,
The sound thereof shall go like the serpent, for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
And even now the axe is laid at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore not producing good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
Ax » Elisha causes to swim
But as one was felling a beam, the axe-head fell into the water. And he cried, and said, Alas, my master! For it was borrowed. And the man of God said, Where did it fall? And he showed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in there, and made the iron to float.
Ax » Battle-ax
And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Ax
And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for him horns of iron, and said, Thus says LORD, With these thou shall push the Syrians until they be consumed.
And the man of God said, Where did it fall? And he showed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in there, and made the iron to float.
If the iron be blunt, and he does not whet the edge, then he must increase strength. But wisdom is advantageous to make right.
And he will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.