Thematic Bible: Mills
Thematic Bible
Mills » Illustrative » (ceasing,) of desolation
flutists, and trumpeters
will never be heard in you again;
no craftsman of any trade
will ever be found in you again;
the sound of a mill
will never be heard in you again;
I will eliminate the sound of joy and gladness from them—the voice of the groom and the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
Verse Concepts
Mills » Male captives often employed at
When the people saw him, they praised their god and said:
Our god has handed over to us
our enemy who destroyed our land
and who multiplied our dead.
Verse Concepts
our enemy who destroyed our land
and who multiplied our dead.
boys stumble under loads of wood.
Mills » Stones used in » Often thrown down on enemies during sieges
At Thebez, who struck Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Didn’t a woman drop an upper millstone on him from the top of the wall so that he died? Why did you get so close to the wall?’—then say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’”
But a woman threw the upper portion of a millstone on Abimelech’s head and fractured his skull.
Verse Concepts
Mills » Female servants usually employed at
and every firstborn male in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl who is behind the millstones, as well as every firstborn of the livestock.
Verse Concepts
Mills » Stones used in » Not to be taken in pledge
“Do not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security.
Verse Concepts
Mills » Stones used in » Large
Then a mighty angel picked up a stone like a large millstone and threw it into the sea, saying:
In this way, Babylon the great city
will be thrown down violently
and never be found again.
Verse Concepts
will be thrown down violently
and never be found again.
Mills » Illustrative » (grinding at,) of degradation, &c
"Go down and sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, Daughter Chaldea! For you will no longer be called pampered and spoiled. Take millstones and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off [your] skirt, bare your thigh, wade through the streams.
Mills » Used for grinding » Manna (in the wilderness)
The people walked around and gathered it. They ground it on a pair of grinding stones or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot and shaped it into cakes. It tasted like a pastry cooked with the finest oil.
Verse Concepts
Mills » Stones used in » Heavy
Mills » Used for grinding » Corn
remove your veil,
strip off your skirt, bare your thigh,
wade through the streams.
Mills » Antiquity of
and every firstborn male in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl who is behind the millstones, as well as every firstborn of the livestock.
Verse Concepts
Mills » Stones used in » Hard
as hard as a lower millstone!