Thematic Bible: Mills
Thematic Bible
Mills » Illustrative » (ceasing,) of desolation
and the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will be heard in you no more, and a craftsman of any craft will be found in you no more, and the sound of the mill will be heard in you no more,
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Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
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Mills » Male captives often employed at
And when the people saw him, they praised their god. For they said, "Our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country, who has killed many of us."
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Young men are compelled to grind at the mill, and boys stagger under loads of wood.
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Mills » Stones used in » Often thrown down on enemies during sieges
Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'"
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And a certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech's head and crushed his skull.
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Mills » Female servants usually employed at
and every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
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Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left.
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Mills » Stones used in » Not to be taken in pledge
"No one shall take a mill or an upper millstone in pledge, for that would be taking a life in pledge.
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Mills » Stones used in » Large
Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more;
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Mills » Illustrative » (grinding at,) of degradation, &c
Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate. Take the millstones and grind flour, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
Mills » Used for grinding » Manna (in the wilderness)
The people went about and gathered it and ground it in handmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil.
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Mills » Stones used in » Heavy
but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
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Mills » Used for grinding » Corn
Take the millstones and grind flour, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
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Mills » Antiquity of
and every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
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Mills » Stones used in » Hard
His heart is hard as a stone, hard as the lower millstone.
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