Thematic Bible: Ax
Thematic Bible
Ax » An implement
He brought forth the people who were therein, and put them under saws, and under iron picks, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brick kiln: and he did so to all the cities of the children of Ammon. David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.
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as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:
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but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, mattock, axe, and sickle; yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.
They behaved like men wielding axes, cutting through a thicket of trees. Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
Ax » Figurative
You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;
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The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
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"Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
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Ax » Elisha causes to swim
But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water. Then he cried, and said, "Alas, my master! For it was borrowed." The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" He showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float.
Ax » Battle-ax
He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.
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Iron » First recorded use of » Articles made of » Ax
Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.'"
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The man of God asked, "Where did it fall?" He showed him the place. He cut down a stick, threw it in there, and made the iron float.
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If the axe is blunt, and one doesn't sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.
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He will cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.
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