Thematic Bible: Mills
Thematic Bible
Mills » Illustrative » (ceasing,) of desolation
And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be no more heard in thee; and no artificer, of whatever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be no more heard in thee;
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Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, 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.
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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, and the destroyer of our country; who slew many of us.
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They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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Mills » Stones used in » Often thrown down on enemies during sieges
Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
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And a certain woman cast a piece of of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and broke his skull.
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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 sitteth upon his throne, even to the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the first-born of beasts.
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Two women will be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
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Mills » Stones used in » Not to be taken in pledge
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone for a pledge: for he taketh a man's life for a 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, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be no more found.
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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: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate. Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the 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 a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
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Mills » Stones used in » Heavy
But whoever shall cause one of these little ones who believe in me, to sin, 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
Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
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Mills » Antiquity of
And all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even to the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the first-born of beasts.
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Mills » Stones used in » Hard
His heart is as firm as a stone; yes, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
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