Thematic Bible: Nail
Thematic Bible
Nail » Figurative
“From them (Judah) shall come the
From them the tent peg,
From them the bow of battle,
From them every ruler, all of them together.
But now for a brief moment grace has been [shown to us] from the Lord our God, who has left us a surviving remnant and has given us a peg (secure hold) in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
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“I will drive him like a peg in a firm place,
And he will become a throne of honor and glory to his father’s house.
In that day,” declares the Lord of hosts, “the peg (Eliakim) that was driven into the firm place will give way; it will even break off and fall, and the burden hanging on it will be cut off, for the Lord has spoken.”
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Nail » Or, peg
So the craftsman encourages the goldsmith,
And he who smooths metal with the smith’s hammer encourages him who beats the anvil,
Saying of the soldering (welding), “That is good”;
And he fastens the idol with nails,
So that it will not totter nor be moved.
“They adorn the idol with silver and with gold;
They fasten it with hammers and nails
So that it will not fall apart.
Nail » Made of iron
David prepared large quantities of iron to make nails for the doors of the gates and for the clamps (trusses), and more bronze than could be weighed;
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Nail » Jael kills sisera with
But Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg and a hammer in her hand, and came up quietly to him and drove the peg through his temple, and it went through into the ground; for he was sound asleep and exhausted. So he died.
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Nail » Made of gold
The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
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