Thematic Bible: Mills
Thematic Bible
Mills » Illustrative » (ceasing,) of desolation
And the sound of the harpists, musicians, flute players, and trumpeters will never be heard in you again. No craftsman who practices any trade will ever be found in you again; the noise of a mill will never be heard in you again.
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I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, to the glad celebration of brides and grooms in these lands. I will put an end to the sound of people grinding meal. I will put an end to lamps shining in their houses.
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Mills » Male captives often employed at
When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying, "Our god has handed our enemy over to us, the one who ruined our land and killed so many of us!"
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The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.
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Mills » Stones used in » Often thrown down on enemies during sieges
Who struck down Abimelech the son of Jerub-Besheth? Didn't a woman throw an upper millstone down on him from the wall so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go so close to the wall?' just say to him, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is also dead.'"
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a woman threw an upper millstone down on his head and shattered his skull.
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Mills » Female servants usually employed at
and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
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There will be two women grinding grain with a mill; one will be taken and one left.
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Mills » Stones used in » Not to be taken in pledge
One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security.
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Mills » Stones used in » Large
Then one powerful angel picked up a stone like a huge millstone, threw it into the sea, and said, "With this kind of sudden violent force Babylon the great city will be thrown down and it will never be found again!
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Mills » Illustrative » (grinding at,) of degradation, &c
"Fall down! Sit in the dirt, O virgin daughter Babylon! Sit on the ground, not on a throne, O daughter of the Babylonians! Indeed, you will no longer be called delicate and pampered. Pick up millstones and grind flour! Remove your veil, strip off your skirt, expose your legs, cross the streams!
Mills » Used for grinding » Manna (in the wilderness)
And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil.
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Mills » Stones used in » Heavy
"But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the open sea.
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Mills » Used for grinding » Corn
Pick up millstones and grind flour! Remove your veil, strip off your skirt, expose your legs, cross the streams!
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Mills » Antiquity of
and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
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Mills » Stones used in » Hard
Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
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