Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Arts and crafts » Names of various » Carving of wood
and with cutting and setting stone, and with cutting wood, to work in all kinds of craftsmanship.
The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible.
Ax » An implement
He removed the people who were in it and made them do hard labor with saws, iron picks, and iron axes, putting them to work at the brick kiln. This was his policy with all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all the army returned to Jerusalem.
Suppose he goes with someone else to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose from the handle and strikes his fellow worker so hard that he dies. The person responsible may then flee to one of these cities to save himself.
So all Israel had to go down to the Philistines in order to get their plowshares, cutting instruments, axes, and sickles sharpened. They charged two-thirds of a shekel to sharpen plowshares and cutting instruments, and a third of a shekel to sharpen picks and axes, and to set ox goads.
They invade like lumberjacks swinging their axes in a thick forest. And now they are tearing down all its engravings with axes and crowbars.
Carving » Woodwork of the temple was decorated with carvings of flowers, cherubim, and palm trees
The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible.
On all the walls around the temple, inside and out, he carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom.
On the two doors made of olive wood he carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom, and he plated them with gold. He plated the cherubs and the palm trees with hammered gold.
He carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom and plated them with gold, leveled out over the carvings.