Thematic Bible: Nail


Thematic Bible



“From them will come the cornerstone,
From them the tent peg,
From them the bow of battle,
From them every ruler, all of them together.
Verse ConceptsTentsPegs

But now for a brief moment grace has been shown from the Lord our God, to leave us an escaped remnant and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and grant us a little reviving in our bondage. Verse ConceptsenlightenmentLight, SpiritualRemnantGod Is GraciousPegsA Short TimeSurvivors FavouredShort Time For Actionrevivalspacegraciousness

“I will drive him like a peg in a firm place,
And he will become a throne of glory to his father’s house.
Verse ConceptsThroneNailsPegsProtecting Your Family

In that day,” declares the Lord of hosts, “the peg driven in a firm place will give way; it will even break off and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off, for the Lord has spoken.” Verse ConceptsTentsPegs

So the craftsman encourages the smelter,
And he who smooths metal with the hammer encourages him who beats the anvil,
Saying of the soldering, “It is good”;
And he fastens it with nails,
So that it will not totter.
Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofRidicule, Nature OfSkillToolsGoldsmithsBlacksmithsHammersNailsEncouraging One AnotherEncouraging Othersencouragingwoodworkingcraftsmanshipprocess

“They decorate it with silver and with gold;
They fasten it with nails and with hammers
So that it will not totter.
Verse ConceptsCarpentry ToolsHammersNailsDecksMotionlessnessChristmas Tree

David prepared large quantities of iron to make the nails for the doors of the gates and for the clamps, and more bronze than could be weighed; Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialIronNailsAmassing BronzeBronze Gates

But Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg and seized a hammer in her hand, and went secretly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went through into the ground; for he was sound asleep and exhausted. So he died. Verse ConceptsTentsTirednessHammersNailsPegsSharp ToolsTired In FlightKilling Named Individuals

The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold. Verse Conceptsweight