Thematic Bible: Ax
Thematic Bible
Ax » An implement
David made the people of Rabbah tear down the city walls with iron picks and axes. He also put them to work making bricks. He did the same thing with all the other Ammonite cities. David went back to Jerusalem. The people of Israel returned to their homes.
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For example: when a man goes into the forest with his friend to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off the handle and strikes his friend so that he dies. He may flee to one of these cities and live.
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Everyone in Israel had to go to the Philistines to sharpen the blade of his plow, his mattock, ax, or sickle. The charge for sharpening plowshares and for the mattocks, and for the mattocks, and for the three-pronged forks, and for the axes was a pim.
They behaved like men wielding axes cutting through a thicket of trees. They strike down all its carved work with hatchet and hammers.
Ax » Figurative
He says: You are my war-club, my weapon of war. I shatter nations with you and with you I destroy kingdoms.
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Egypt will hiss like a snake as it slithers away. Its enemies will come with full force. They will attack it with axes like those who chop wood.
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The ax is ready to cut down the trees at the roots. Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
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Ax » Elisha causes to swim
One of them was cutting down a tree when suddenly his ax head fell in the water. It was a borrowed ax, he exclaimed to Elisha. What will I do? Elisha said: Where did it fall? The man showed him the place. Elisha cut off a stick. Then he threw it in the water and made the ax head float.
Ax » Battle-ax
He will direct the blow of his battering rams against your walls. He will break down your towers with his axes.
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Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Ax
One of them, Zedekiah son of Chenaanah, made iron horns and said to Ahab: This is what Jehovah says: With these you will fight the Syrians and totally defeat them.
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Elisha said: Where did it fall? The man showed him the place. Elisha cut off a stick. Then he threw it in the water and made the ax head float.
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If the ax is dull, and he does not whet the edge, he must put forth more effort. Wisdom helps him to succeed.
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He will cut down the forest thickets with an ax. Lebanon will fall before the Mighty One.
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