Thematic Bible: Mills
Thematic Bible
Mills » Illustrative » (ceasing,) of desolation
And the voice of harpers, and of musicians. and flutists, and of trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. And every craftsman of any craft will not be found any more in you. And the sound of a mill will never more be heard at all in you.
And I will take from them the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the candle.
Mills » Male captives often employed at
And the people saw him and praised their god. For they said, Our god has delivered our enemy into our hand, and the destroyer of our country, who killed many of us.
They took the young men to grind, and the youths stumbled at the wood.
Mills » Stones used in » Often thrown down on enemies during sieges
Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerub-besheth? Did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall? And you shall say, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
And a certain woman threw a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head and crushed his skull.
Mills » Female servants usually employed at
And all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sits upon his throne, even to the first-born of the slave-girl that is behind the mill; also the first-born of beasts.
Two shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Mills » Stones used in » Not to be taken in pledge
No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes a man's life to pledge.
Mills » Stones used in » Large
And one strong angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, So on an impulse the great city, Babylon, will be thrown down and not at all will be found any more.
Mills » Illustrative » (grinding at,) of degradation, &c
Come down, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground. There is no throne for you, O daughter of the Chaldeans. For you shall no more be called tender and delicate. Take the millstones and grind meal. Push back your veil, draw up your skirt, uncover your leg, pass over the rivers.
Mills » Used for grinding » Manna (in the wilderness)
The people went around and gathered, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked in pans, and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like the taste of fresh oil.
Mills » Stones used in » Heavy
But whoever shall offend one of these little ones who believes in Me, it would be better for him that an ass's millstone were hung around his neck, and he be sunk in the depth of the sea.
Mills » Used for grinding » Corn
Take the millstones and grind meal. Push back your veil, draw up your skirt, uncover your leg, pass over the rivers.
Mills » Antiquity of
And all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sits upon his throne, even to the first-born of the slave-girl that is behind the mill; also the first-born of beasts.