Thematic Bible: Implements of


Thematic Bible



You shall count seven weeks for yourself; you shall begin to count seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain. Verse ConceptsNumberingSicklesMore Than One Month

When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor’s standing grain. Verse ConceptsCornPoverty, Remedies ForSickles

Now therefore, take and prepare a new cart and two milch cows on which there has never been a yoke; and hitch the cows to the cart and take their calves home, away from them. Verse ConceptsCartsYokesCattleDairyYoung AnimalAnimal OffspringUnusedTwo Animals

For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, Nor is the cartwheel driven over cummin; But dill is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a club. Grain for bread is crushed, Indeed, he does not continue to thresh it forever. Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually damage it, He does not thresh it longer.

So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his hoe. Verse ConceptsAxesSharpening

As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample. Verse ConceptsHillsTilling The SoilFear, Of NaturalCultivation

His winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clear His threshing floor; and He will gather His wheat into the barn, but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” Verse ConceptsHell, Description OfNames For HeavenHell, As An ExperienceForksSin, God's Judgment OnThreshing FloorToolsWinnowingWicked Described AsEternal JudgmentLight As ChaffReapingBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesWeed

Also the oxen and the donkeys which work the ground will eat salted fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork. Verse ConceptsMangersToolsShovelsNoting What Animals EatSourness

For before the harvest, as soon as the bud blossoms
And the flower becomes a ripening grape,
Then He will cut off the sprigs with pruning knives
And remove and cut away the spreading branches.
Verse ConceptsPruningKnivesToolsCutting Off Branches

Beat your plowshares into swords
And your pruning hooks into spears;
Let the weak say, “I am a mighty man.”
Verse ConceptsPruningSpearsToolsWeakness, SpiritualAmbivalenceNo Strength To Cope

He also brought out the people who were in it, and set them under saws, sharp iron instruments, and iron axes, and made them pass through the brickkiln. And thus he did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem. Verse ConceptsAxesIronToolsCaptivesClay, UsesHorrors Of WarSawsFurnacesIron ObjectsForced Labour

So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his hoe. Verse ConceptsAxesSharpening

The charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares, the mattocks, the forks, and the axes, and to fix the hoes. Verse ConceptsGoadsCoinageAxesForks

So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his hoe. Verse ConceptsAxesSharpening

“Behold, I have made you a new, sharp threshing sledge with double edges;
You will thresh the mountains and pulverize them,
And will make the hills like chaff.
Verse ConceptsTeethThreshingMountains Removed

For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge,
Nor is the cartwheel driven over cummin;
But dill is beaten out with a rod, and cummin with a club.
Verse ConceptsHerbs And SpicesSticksCummin

Also the oxen and the donkeys which work the ground will eat salted fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork. Verse ConceptsMangersToolsShovelsNoting What Animals EatSourness

“For behold, I am commanding,
And I will shake the house of Israel among all nations
As grain is shaken in a sieve,
But not a kernel will fall to the ground.
Verse ConceptsSiftingGod ShakingSievingThings Falling