Thematic Bible: Ax
Thematic Bible
Ax » An implement
And he brought out the people who were in it and set them to labor with saws and iron picks and iron axes and made them toil at the brick kilns. And thus he did to all the cities of the Ammonites. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
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as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies--he may flee to one of these cities and live,
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But every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle, and the charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.
They were like those who swing axes in a forest of trees. And all its carved wood they broke down with hatchets and hammers.
Ax » Figurative
"You are my hammer and weapon of war: with you I break nations in pieces; with you I destroy kingdoms;
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"She makes a sound like a serpent gliding away; for her enemies march in force and come against her with axes like those who fell trees.
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Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
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Ax » Elisha causes to swim
But as one was felling a log, his axe head fell into the water, and he cried out, "Alas, my master! It was borrowed." Then the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" When he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it in there and made the iron float.
Ax » Battle-ax
He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.
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Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Ax
And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made for himself horns of iron and said, "Thus says the LORD, 'With these you shall push the Syrians until they are destroyed.'"
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Then the man of God said, "Where did it fall?" When he showed him the place, he cut off a stick and threw it in there and made the iron float.
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If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed.
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He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an axe, and Lebanon will fall by the Majestic One.
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