Thematic Bible: Implements of
Thematic Bible
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The sickle
You shall count seven weeks for yourself. Count off seven weeks from the beginning of your grain harvest.
When you enter your neighbor's standing grain you may pluck the heads with your hand. But you must not wield a sickle in your neighbor's standing grain.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The cart
Now get a new cart ready for two dairy cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart. Take their calves away and leave them in their stall.
The black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin. But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick, and the cummin with a rod. Bread flour must be ground. Therefore he does not thresh it forever, break it with his cartwheel, or crush it with his horsemen.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The mattock
Everyone in Israel had to go to the Philistines to sharpen the blade of his plow, his mattock, ax, or sickle.
All the hills where crops were once planted will be so overgrown with thorns that no one will go there. It will be a place where cattle and sheep graze.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The fan
His winnowing shovel is in his hand. He will clean his threshing floor and gather his wheat into a barn. He will then burn the husks in a fire that cannot be put out.
The cattle and the donkeys that work the soil will eat a mixture of food that has been winnowed with forks and shovels.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The pruning-hook
Before the harvest, when blossoms are gone and grapes are ripening from blossoms, he will cut off the shoots with pruning shears and chop off and take away the spreading branches.
Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears! Let the weak say, I am strong.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The harrow
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.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The plow
Everyone in Israel had to go to the Philistines to sharpen the blade of his plow, his mattock, ax, or sickle.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The fork
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.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The axe
Everyone in Israel had to go to the Philistines to sharpen the blade of his plow, his mattock, ax, or sickle.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The teethed threshing instrument
See I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them. You will reduce the hills to chaff.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The flail, &c
The black cummin is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin. But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick, and the cummin with a rod.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The shovel
The cattle and the donkeys that work the soil will eat a mixture of food that has been winnowed with forks and shovels.
Agriculture or husbandry » Implements of » The sieve
I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations! Like grain is sifted in a sieve, yet the least kernel will not fall on the earth.