Thematic Bible: Nail


Thematic Bible



The corner stone will come from them. The tent peg will come from them. Every ruler and the battle bow will come from them.

Now for a little time grace (favour) has come to us from Jehovah our God, to let a small band of us go free and to give us a nail in his holy place. Our God gives light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.

I will fasten him as a peg in a secure place. He will become a glorious throne to his father's house.

Jehovah of Hosts says: 'In that day the peg that is fastened in the secure place will be removed and be cut down and fall. The load that was on it will be destroyed.' Jehovah has spoken.


The craftsman encourages the goldsmith. He who smooths with the hammer spurs on him who strikes the anvil. He says of the welding: It is good. He nails down the idol so it will not topple.

They decorate it with silver and with gold. They fasten it with nails and with hammers so that it will not tip over.


He provided a large amount of iron to make nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, and more copper than could be weighed.


Then Jael Heber's wife picked up a tent peg and a hammer and went to him while he was fast asleep and drove the peg into his temple and it went down into the ground. He was fast asleep and weary. So he died.


The gold nails weighed twenty ounces. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.