Thematic Bible: Mills
Thematic Bible
Mills » Illustrative » (ceasing,) of desolation
The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.
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 lamp.
Mills » Male captives often employed at
When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, "Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand."
The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.
Mills » Stones used in » Often thrown down on enemies during sieges
who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Didn't a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'"
Mills » Female servants usually employed at
and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of livestock.
two women grinding at the mill, one will be taken and one will be left.
Mills » Stones used in » Not to be taken in pledge
No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge; for he takes [a man's] life to pledge.
Mills » Stones used in » Large
A mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying, "Thus with violence will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down, and will be found no more at all.
Mills » Illustrative » (grinding at,) of degradation, &c
"Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate. Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
Mills » Used for grinding » Manna (in the wilderness)
The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.
Mills » Stones used in » Heavy
but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.
Mills » Used for grinding » Corn
Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
Mills » Antiquity of
and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of livestock.