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Thematic Bible



“You are to count seven weeks, counting the weeks from the time the sickle is first put to the standing grain. Verse ConceptsNumberingSicklesMore Than One Month

When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, you may pluck heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain. Verse ConceptsCornPoverty, Remedies ForSickles

“Now then, prepare one new cart and two milk cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up. Verse ConceptsCartsYokesCattleDairyYoung AnimalAnimal OffspringUnusedTwo Animals

Certainly black cumin is not threshed with a threshing board, and a cart wheel is not rolled over the cumin. But black cumin is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod. Bread grain is crushed, but is not threshed endlessly. Though the wheel of [the farmer's] cart rumbles, his horses do not crush it.

So all the Israelites went to the Philistines to sharpen their plows, mattocks, axes, and sickles. Verse ConceptsAxesSharpening

You will not go to all the hills
that were once tilled with a hoe,
for fear of the thorns and briers.
Those hills will be places for oxen to graze
and for sheep to trample.
Verse ConceptsHillsTilling The SoilFear, Of NaturalCultivation

His winnowing shovel is in His hand, and He will clear His threshing floor and gather His wheat into the barn. But the chaff He will burn up with fire that never goes out.” Verse ConceptsHell, Description OfNames For HeavenHell, As An ExperienceForksSin, God's Judgment OnThreshing FloorToolsWinnowingWicked Described AsEternal JudgmentLight As ChaffReapingBurning PlantsGod's StorehousesWeed

The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder scattered with winnowing shovel and fork. Verse ConceptsMangersToolsShovelsNoting What Animals EatSourness

For before the harvest, when the blossoming is over
and the blossom becomes a ripening grape,
He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife,
and tear away and remove the branches.
Verse ConceptsPruningKnivesToolsCutting Off Branches

Beat your plows into swords
and your pruning knives into spears.
Let even the weakling say, “I am a warrior.”
Verse ConceptsPruningSpearsToolsWeakness, SpiritualAmbivalenceNo Strength To Cope

He removed the people who were in the city and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, and to labor at brickmaking. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then he and all his troops returned to Jerusalem. Verse ConceptsAxesIronToolsCaptivesClay, UsesHorrors Of WarSawsFurnacesIron ObjectsForced Labour

So all the Israelites went to the Philistines to sharpen their plows, mattocks, axes, and sickles. Verse ConceptsAxesSharpening

The price was two-thirds of a shekel for plows and mattocks, and one-third of a shekel for pitchforks and axes, and for putting a point on an oxgoad. Verse ConceptsGoadsCoinageAxesForks

So all the Israelites went to the Philistines to sharpen their plows, mattocks, axes, and sickles. Verse ConceptsAxesSharpening

See, I will make you into a sharp threshing board,
new, with many teeth.
You will thresh mountains and pulverize them
and make hills into chaff.
Verse ConceptsTeethThreshingMountains Removed

Certainly black cumin is not threshed
with a threshing board,
and a cart wheel is not rolled over the cumin.
But black cumin is beaten out with a stick,
and cumin with a rod.
Verse ConceptsHerbs And SpicesSticksCummin

The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder scattered with winnowing shovel and fork. Verse ConceptsMangersToolsShovelsNoting What Animals EatSourness

for I am about to give the command,
and I will shake the house of Israel
among all the nations,
as one shakes a sieve,
but not a pebble will fall to the ground.
Verse ConceptsSiftingGod ShakingSievingThings Falling

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