Thematic Bible: Ax
Thematic Bible
Ax » An implement
And he brought out the people that were in it, and put them under the saw, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkilns. And so did he to all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
as when he goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron slippeth from the handle, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; such an one shall flee unto one of these cities, and live;
And all Israel went down to the Philistines, every man to get his ploughshare, and his hoe, and his axe, and his sickle sharpened, when the edges of the sickles, and the hoes, and the forks, and the axes were blunted; and to set the goads.
A man was known as he could lift up axes in the thicket of trees; And now they break down its carved work altogether, with hatchets and hammers.
Ax » Figurative
Thou art my maul, my weapons of war: and with thee I will break in pieces the nations, and I will with thee destroy kingdoms;
Her voice shall go like a serpent's; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
And already the axe is applied to 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
And it came to pass as one was felling a beam, that the iron fell into the water; and he cried and said, Alas, master, and it was borrowed! And the man of God said, Where did it fall? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither, and made the iron to swim.
Ax » Battle-ax
and he shall set his engines of attack against thy walls, and with his spikes he shall break down thy towers.
Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Ax
And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron, and he said, Thus saith Jehovah: With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until thou have exterminated them.
And the man of God said, Where did it fall? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither, and made the iron to swim.
If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he apply more strength; but wisdom is profitable to give success.
and he shall make clearings in the thickets of the forest with iron; and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.