Thematic Bible: Mill


Thematic Bible



No man shall take the hand-mill or the upper millstone in pledge; for it would be taking life in pledge.

His heart is firm as a stone, yea, firm as the nether millstone.

Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, lift up the train, uncover the leg, pass over rivers:


And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with bronze fetters; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.


and voice of harp-singers and musicians and flute-players and trumpeters shall not be heard any more at all in thee, and no artificer of any art shall be found any more at all in thee, and voice of millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee,




The people went about, and gathered it, and ground it with hand-mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was as the taste of oil-cakes.


And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sitteth on his throne, even unto the firstborn of the bondwoman that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of cattle.