Thematic Bible: Mills
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Mills » Illustrative » (ceasing,) of desolation
And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more in thee: and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee, and the sound of a mill shall be heard no more in thee,
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Moreover, I will take from them the voice of gladness and solace, the voice of the bridegroom and the bride, the voice of the anointed, with the cressets:
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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 hath delivered into our hands our enemy, that destroyed our country and slew many of us."
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they have taken young men's lives from them, and the boys are hanged up upon trees.
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Mills » Stones used in » Often thrown down on enemies during sieges
Who smote Abimelech son of Jerubbosheth? Did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from off the walls, that he died in Thebes? Why then went ye nigh the walls?" Then say thou, 'Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'"
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But a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon his head and all to break his brainpan.
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Mills » Female servants usually employed at
and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die: even from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth on his seat, unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is in the mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
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two shall be grinding at the mill: the one shall be received, and the other shall be refused.
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Mills » Stones used in » Not to be taken in pledge
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge, for then he taketh a man's life to pledge.
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Mills » Stones used in » Large
And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, "With such violence shall that great city Babylon be cast, and shall be found no more.
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Mills » Illustrative » (grinding at,) of degradation, &c
But as for thee O daughter, thou virgin Babylon, thou shalt sit in the dust. Thou shalt sit upon the ground, and not in a throne, O thou maiden of Chaldea. Thou shalt no more be called tender and pleasant. Thou shalt bring forth the quern and grind meal, put down thy stomacher, make bare thy knees, and shalt wade through the water rivers.
Mills » Used for grinding » Manna (in the wilderness)
And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars and boke it in pans and made cakes of it. And the taste of it was like unto the taste of an oilcake.
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Mills » Stones used in » Heavy
But whosoever offend one of these little ones, which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
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Mills » Used for grinding » Corn
Thou shalt bring forth the quern and grind meal, put down thy stomacher, make bare thy knees, and shalt wade through the water rivers.
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Mills » Antiquity of
and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die: even from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth on his seat, unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is in the mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
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Mills » Stones used in » Hard
His heart is as hard as stone, and as fast as the stythie that the hammer man smiteth upon.
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